Remove Upgrade Notice

  • Resolved topplugins

    (@topplugins)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Can you please remove the annoying Upgrade Notice?

    This one:
    Do you want access to HappyForms’ most powerful features? Discover HappyForms Upgrade?

    If you want me (us) to upgrade is more than enough to show this message 1 time. I should have the possibility to hide this message for ever and not editing plugin files.

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  • thethemefoundry

    (@thethemefoundry)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hey there, @topplugins 👋

    That makes sense! We only just added that notice and honestly, we weren’t sure if making it dismissible would make it too easy to overlook! But having heard your feedback, we’ll change that to be dismissible.

    Thanks for coming to us with this! It’s always tricky balancing things like this from a business perspective, and a bit of honest feedback like this means so much.

    Out of interest, is there anything we could do (or add to the product) that would make you want to upgrade? We hate the idea of nagging people who simply don’t want to upgrade, so we’d love to hear what your opinion is about that.

    tbronson

    (@tbronson)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    I’m having a problem with not being able to turn of the upgrade notice as well, it keeps popping up, over and over. I guess from the timestamp on your response above, you’re fixing that, if so, cool.

    The specific annoyance for me is that I keep thinking it’s a alert about something on the active site. And once I see it’s not, the annoyance is, “OK, if it’s not really free, just charge for it and be done, don’t say it’s free, and then tax me through nagging.” 🙂

    As a bit of appreciative user feedback: I run a couple of low-traffic personal sites, and one site for an entrepreneurial idea that I’ve been working on for a few months, and by the odds will probably go nowhere as a business, but at least I’m enjoying it.

    I’m all for open source, and have contributed to projects (doing documentation) in the past as a way to balance the “free”. For WordPress, I appreciate solid plugins, and am most confident in a plugin when it has a decent user base, and seems to be supporting itself financially, even if I’m using a free version.

    I also pay for WordPress themes and plugins as I use them over time. I don’t have a huge budget for this, so I choose carefully. I bought Genesis framework and a paid theme a while ago, and then stopped using it. I’m currently paying for GeneratePress (awesome). I’ve subscribed to GravityForms for several years (I replaced GF with HappyForms for a basic contact form). And there are a couple of other paid items that I’m using or have used.

    I read through the HappyForms pricing before I started using it. And I even clicked and reread it the first time I saw the new upgrade banner (kinda out of respect :). If I need a premium feature, and have come to trust HappyForms, I’d gladly pay. And if a site became revenue-generating, I’d pay for all of the core plugins that I could afford, just in support.

    I’m posting all this as market research feedback, because there are probably quite a few others that fit this profile. Hopefully it’s of some use.

    So far, HappyForms is great. Thanks!

    thethemefoundry

    (@thethemefoundry)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hey 👋 Thank you so much for sharing all that, @tbronson!

    It’s so good to actually hear from people not just what they want but also why they want it — it makes our role some much easier. So thanks!

    And yes, we’re going to make that notice dismissible so you can ‘say goodbye’ to it if you like.

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