Just checking to be sure you know your widget breaks Jetpack Site Stats

Got it back, thanks… 🙂

I agree with Dix…. in fact, that’s what I do when I set up a site, my clients pay out up front on what I call “core” plugins. I think the biggest drawback to the donation system is folks don’t know what is appropriate for a donation, would a buck do? Five bucks?? Ten??? They don’t want to insult the author by not donating enough, so they don’t know what to do, then end up paying nothing. Perhaps a “suggested” donation??

And if they would have slipped you a buck, you would be a millionaire!
(let’s hope you are by now, or some day will be)

Howdy,

Any timeline for releasing this fix to all, via a new version? There are still a fair number of folks reporting this to Jetpack support.

Sadly, since Subscribe2 is deactivating the Stats module, mutual users impacted will permanently lose the stats information for the time using the current stable version, as Jetpack doesn’t track stats at all when that module is not active.

Cheers!

Much appreciated. I’ll start telling folks to sit tight and an update is forthcoming.

Thanks for your flexibility!

And if he gets it done, we should all slip him a buck…. 🙂

I have been thinking about the whole “donation” thing….. ever been at an intersection, and there’s a homeless standing there?? And what do you do? You give him a buck, maybe more. What has he done? Nothing, he was just standing there, in need of course, but he’s just there. Don’t get me wrong, charity is a good thing, it shows compassion for others, so it’s all good. But, the bottom line is, he has contributed nothing…

So now you got a guy coding an open source plugin, and maintaining it, for THOUSANDS of folks, and it’s an essential for their sites….. I’d say he’s contributed something, don’t you think it might be worth the time to slip the author a buck or two??

Just saying….. 🙂

T.

As a quick plug, Subscribe2 has a donation link at http://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/ that points to

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2387904

So yeah, if you haven’t and you depend on Subscribe2, now is a great time :-).

(Thanks again for the quick turnaround!)

Hey Matty,

Open source is a good thing, since you can involve other creative minds besides your own, development can move so much quicker.

That said, “getting paid,” is the Achilles of open source, and if something is not done we will lose our best and brightest authors because it’s just not financially prudent.

I have a similar problem over at my on line motorcycle magazine, The Biker’s Garage. I put a considerable effort into my magazine, but, it has yet to earn any real money. I can spend days generating original content, making photographs, researching, writing. It’s actually quite a time drain. It’s been doing well in other ways, I’m seeing six to seven thousand visitors a month, so the content is useful, and popular. The downside is money, I have Google ads in the side bars, and I just picked up Amazon, fingers crossed I get some sales there.

I think the issue is that my readers don’t know how I make money, they don’t know to “click out” on a Google ad leaving my site, and they don’t understand I can make money from the stuff they buy on Amazon. Perhaps they just see the ads and think I’m being paid for them like in a print magazine.

I’m at a point where I’ll have to decide if I will continue or not. Nobody will feed me for free, so I have to make a choice where to spend my effort, my web development and SEO work, or the magazine. I’m considering actually writing an article, “Support The Biker’s Garage,” and lay it all out in regards to the money, that way people can understand and choose the “correct” action to take.

They always say “You get what you ask for.” So I’m going to ask, I suggest you might want to do the same. Personally, I think a suggested donation of 1.00 USD is not too much to ask.

T.