IFTTT's disastrous pricing model change

Automation platform IFTTT recently changed it's pricing model. Under the old model Pro+ users were able to create and run an unlimited number of applets. Proand Pro+ users viewed IFTTT almost as a utility and because of this IFTTT had a very reliable user base that maintained subscriptions year-over-year. IFTTT's recent switch to a metered, credit based pricing system means most Pro and Pro+ users won't be able to continue running their applets. Having an IFTTT account now means having to constantly monitor credit usage and paying extra.

The way IFTTT has rolled out this whole credits thing, it's clear they were so focused on growth and AI mumbojumbo that they completely overlooked how loyal, long-time customers were actively using the platform. Simply put, IFTTT pulled the rug on loyal customers because they wanted to capitalize on new users in the AI era.

Wordpress pugins to avoid

• Fuzzy SEO Booster is a Wordpress plugin you should avoid. Once a site becomes more popular, the plugin tends to cause a lot of MySQL issues.
• WP PostViews is another problematic plugin. It's very inefficient and writes to the database on every page load.
• Tweet Blender causes conflicts with cache plugins.
• LinkMan is another inefficient plugin that has a tendency to kill databases with an insane amount of unnecessary database writes.

How to enable the Blogroll in new versions of Wordpress

The developers removed the Blogroll from the user interface but the functionality is still part of the Wordpress core so you can easily turn it back on. Add this to your functions.php file in your theme to enable it:

add_filter( 'pre_option_link_manager_enabled', '__return_true' );

Ncftp on a dreamhost dedicated server

Today I was happy to learn that 'ncftp', a popular ftp client, is already installed on Dreamhost servers.