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today a client called me that he is not able to log in. so I checked and was very surprised that the free package went away.
to have that clear: it's not a problem when you decide to throw it out. but it is a problem if you don't communicate this. every saas provider I know stuck to its agreement when signed in at a certain time with a certain price. you just cut the line...
We switched from a freemium model to this full trial model a number of months ago; our users wanted to trial the full package on offer and we felt this was the best way of enabling that. Apologies if you didn't see the alert box; in hindsight, we possibly should have emailed our users but I don't like emails from companies clogging up my inbox and I doubt you do.
An issue with providing freemium-model saas is that there tends to be a lot of freeloaders - whilst we realise that some users don't and will never require a feature-rich service, at the same time, we are a business and not a charity. We have spent literally years designing and developing this software and would really like to be able to feed our children in return ;)
There are many simple content management systems out there who still offer perpetually free packages and whilst we would obviously like you to stay with us, we realise you have a choice. We hope you continue to use SimpleCMS and choose to fund its development in the future, which looks to be an exciting one.