Update adds annoying notifications and alien UI

  • Once upon a time, “Disable Comments” was a popular trustworthy plugin that was “simple and clean and just doing what it needed to do”.

    After the recent acquisition by WPDeveloper, the plugin breaks with those good practices:

    – Asks users to agree to provide “non-sensitive data and usage information”. It’s annoying and unasked for.
    – Adds a custom UI that completely breaks with WordPress UI conventions (different typeface, different colors, different UI language, checkbox styles, button styles…). BUT WHY? ???♂?

    This was a simple functionality plugin, as per the Unix philosophy, that provided a service to the community. That’s what I liked about it. Thanks to Samir Shah for having maintained it for many years.

    I’m disappointed to see WPDeveloper turn this into yet another marketing vehicle. Sorry for the 1-star review, but breaking with WordPress UI standards is a no-go.

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  • Plugin Support Abid Hasan

    (@abidhasan112)

    Hi @targz-1 ,

    Thanks for sharing your feedback.
    First of all, I understand that you might like the default WordPress admin design but lots of plugins developers choose to go for a bit out of the box design. For this plugin, the UI is still fairly simple, with just a bit polished color scheme. Nothing distracting here I believe.

    Regarding the non-sensitive data and usage information, If you cancel once, This will not collect your email/usage and this notice will not be visible anytime in your website: https://d.pr/i/GxDKBZ

    Besides that, We have introduced some new features like:
    -WP-CLI support for configuring settings page with WP-CLI command.
    -Block comments that comes from XML-RPC and REST-API.

    Most of these features are requested by lots of users.

    So, I would really appreciate if you reconsider the rating.
    Thanks for your feedback and your co-operation is highly appreciated.
    Have a nice day!

    Hi Manuel, I fully second you!! It’s a pitty to see that this once good plugin has been turned into an annoyance and datacollector.

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