OKAY FUCK JETPACK FOR REAL NOW
SERIOUSLY JETPACK FUCK YOU. YOU JUST TOOK AWAY THE ONE FUCKING TOOL I STILL FUCKING USED. YOU TOOK AWAY MY FUCKING STATS PAGE. AND ARE CHARGING ME A SMALL FORTUNE TO GIVE IT BACK. FUCKING WHAT? THIS IS A FREE FEATURE THAT WE HAVE HAD FOR FIVE YEARS AND YOU TOOK IT AWAY?
SERIOUSLY
YOU FUCKTARDS TOOK AWAY A FREE FEATURE YOU HAVE GIVEN USERS FOR OVER TEN YEARS. ANOTHER FREE FEATURE. ARE THERE EVEN ANY FEATURES YOU HAVE LEFT THAT AREN’T TIED TO A FUCKING PAY WALL?
IT’S FUCKING EXPENSIVE AS WELL. THE MINIMUM COST IS €7.95 A MONTH. IF YOUR WEBSITE GETS LESS THAN 10K MONTHLY VIEWS. THAT’S 333 VIEWS A DAY. WHAT THE DAILY SPUF GETS THESE DAYS. THE LOWEST TIER IS SO FUCKING BARE BONES THAT YOU CAN ONLY GET 300 UNIQUE FUCKING VISITORS A DAY BEFORE YOU HAVE TO PAY MORE MONEY. GO ABOVE THAT AND YOU HAVE TO PAY €15.95 A MONTH FOR 100K MONTHLY VIEWS.
THAT’S ON TOP OF ALL THE OTHER STUFF JETPACK WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR NOW. AND ALL THE OTHER FEATURES THAT WERE TAKEN AWAY. THIS IS EXPENSIVE AS FUCK. I GET THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE MONEY BUT YOU SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO MAKE MONEY IF YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE AWAY FREE FEATURES THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR FUCKING YEARS.
ALL THIS TO TRY AND MAKE MONEY FROM COMMERCIAL SITES BUILT WITH WORDPRESS. APPARENTLY THE DAILY SPUF IS A COMMERCIAL SITE. WHY? I DON’T FUCKING KNOW. I’VE NEVER MADE A SINGLE PENNY FROM THIS SITE, AABICUS AND I PAY FOR IT FROM OUR OWN POCKETS AND WE HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A SINGLE DONATION TO HELP FUND THE SITE. WE DON’T EVEN DO SPONSORED POSTS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT’S LITERALLY JUST A BASIC BLOG WITH A LINK TO A YOUTUBE CHANNEL, A DISCORD SERVER AND TWO OTHER BLOGS.
AND IT SEEMS THAT ALL MY STATS ARE GONE NOW. I CAN’T VIEW THEM ANY MORE. I HAVE LOST ALL THE STATS. SO I CAN’T FIND WHAT IS THE MOST-VIEWED BLOG POST ANY MORE, I CAN’T FIND WHAT THE DAILY MOST-VIEWED POST IS (ALTHOUGH IT IS ALMOST ALWAYS THAT WEIRD SKYRIM POST ABOUT MODS TO IMPROVE YOUR NUDE EXPERIENCE OR SOME BOLLOCKS LIKE THAT) AND I CERTAINLY CAN’T OPEN UP YEARLY VIEWS AND SEE EXACTLY WHERE SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENED AND OUR BLOG GOT, LIKE, DE-INDEXED OR SOMETHING, BECAUSE HALF OUR POPULAR ARTICLES STOPPED SHOWING UP IN SEARCH ENGINES IN GENERAL. I THINK IT’S BECAUSE OF NUDITY BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN A MASSIVE CORPORATE PUSH TO SANITIZE THE INTERNET IN A BID TO PUSH MORE ADVERTISING. IT HAPPENED TO TUMBLR, IT HAPPENED TO ONLYFANS, IT’LL KEEP ON HAPPENING.
OH SURE, THERE’S A ‘FREE’ VERSION TO LET YOU SEE STATS, BUT YOU HAVE TO AGREE THAT YOUR WEBSITE DOES NOT GENERATE ANY MONEY WHAT SO EVER. YOU CAN’T EVEN ASK FOR DONATIONS ON YOUR WEBSITE IF YOU WANT TO USE THE ‘FREE’ VERSION OF JETPACK’S STATS. CHARITIES ASKING FOR DONATIONS COUNT AS ‘COMMERCIAL WEBSITES’ SO THEY HAVE TO PAY TO BE ABLE TO USE STATS.
IN FACT, JETPACK DECIDED THAT THE DAILY SPUF IS A COMMERCIAL SITE BECAUSE IT FOUND THE WORD “BUSINESS CONTACT DETAILS” SOMEWHERE ON THE WEBSITE. WHERE, I HAVE NO IDEA, BECAUSE I DID A SEARCH AND FOUND NOTHING AT ALL. THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK FOR THEM TO DECIDE, NOPE, I GOTTA PAY FOR STATS. SURE, I CAN CONTACT SUPPORT, WHICH THEN REDIRECTS ME TO POST ON A FORUM THAT AUTOMATTIC RUNS, WHERE I HAVE TO MAKE A POST AND PROVE THE SITE IS NOT FOR PROFIT, BUT FUCK THAT. YOU TOOK AWAY MY STATS, I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO JUMP THROUGH RINGS TO GET THEM BACK.
FUCK YOU, JETPACK AND AUTOMATTIC. FUCK YOU. I’M REMOVING YOUR SHITTY PLUGIN. FUCK YOU FOR TAKING FREE FEATURES AWAY AND THEN SELLING THEM BACK TO PEOPLE AT INFLATED RATES. COMPANIES LIKE YOU GIVE WORDPRESS A BAD NAME.
AND REMEMBER KIDS, NEVER USE WORDPRESS.COM. ALWAYS USE WORDPRESS.ORG. BECAUSE .COM IS SELF-HOSTED BY AUTOMATTIC AND THEY WILL CHARGE YOU A FORTUNE FOR A WATERED DOWN VERSION OF NORMAL WORDPRESS, WHILE TRYING TO SELL YOU THINGS CONSTANTLY.