Hi there,
TL;DR: No worries, go ahead and install Slimstat on your site, it’s not a hack.
Long version: Sorry for the confusion. We actually placed that message in the plugin source code to warn our users about other “not so legit” versions being sold out there. Keyword Swarm was a repackaged version of Slimstat plus all our premium add-ons. We never authorized the author to resell our add-ons, and their license explicitly forbids that. Slimstat is free, and people should not pay for a repackaged version of our plugin. That’s all 🙂
Best,
Camu
Sounds like a promotion to me:
“In order to protect our intellectual property rights (Keyword Swarm, anyone?), we are asking you to review the following terms of use.”
Strange way to put a “Warning”, plus it leads to that Keyword Swarm link even leads to a Youtube vid promotion its product.
Now if you want to plug a product, that your business.
But to say that this line is a warning not to use Keyword Swarm just doesn’t set right with me.
If it truly is a warning, then I’d suggest rewording it to make it crystal clear. And if it truly is a promotion from you guys, just be real about it.
You have a point. How would you word it to make it crystal clear? However you are the first one to find that message not clear in about two years 😉 But if you would like to recommend a better verbiage, I’ll be more than happy to use it.
Just for the record, we have nothing to do with that other plugin.
Best,
Camu
I sure wouldn’t word it like that. I would just come and say what the situation is. Kinda like you’ve explained here on the forum: “We want to warn our users about other “not so legit” versions being sold out there. Keyword Swarm was a repackaged version of Slimstat plus all our premium add-ons. We never authorized the author to resell our add-ons, and their license explicitly forbids that. Slimstat is free, and people should not pay for a repackaged version of our plugin.”
That more clear and professional than starting the terms off “Keyword Swarm Anyone?” What kind of warning is that?? C’mon, how would that look to you if you knew nothing about slimstat?
And by the way, just because doesn’t tell you about something or complain to you, that doesn’t mean they’re not turned off or confused.
In fact, I started not to even mention this; I started to just pass slimstat up all together and write it off as suspicious or some type of hacked plugin, but I just happened to dig a little deeper and inquire about.
Again, you have a point. We are going to use your recommendation and update the message to read like this:
We would like to warn our users about other not so legit clones of Slimstat being sold out there. Keyword Swarm, for example, is a repackaged version of Slimstat plus all our premium add-ons. We never authorized the author to resell our add-ons, and our license explicitly forbids it. Slimstat is free, and people should not pay for an unsupported fraudulent piece of software. In order to protect our intellectual property rights, we are asking you to review the following terms of use.
Thank you for taking some time to dig a little deeper, and helping us improve our software!
Camu
Looks much better and more professional, just signed up!
