Bad faith developer

I had used this plugin on a couple of clients’ sites to provide users with front-end login and front-end editable profiles. One of those clients only recently noticed that their front-end user profile editing no longer works. The reason is that this developer removed functionality and put it behind a paywall. It looks like the client has lost data related to custom email messages.

This is not OK. It’s great if a plugin developer can extend free functionality to offer pro upgrades. But taking away free functionality that was behind the original decision to use the plugin and which a site depends on goes strongly against the grain, to my mind.

So thanks but no thanks. I’ll look at forking the old version before it was nerfed and maintaining it for my clients from here on in.