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Originally Posted by AdultKing
The billing integration is a small part of Magic Members and similar products. Magic Members does more than billing integration, it allows you to manage paid content, drip feed that content, make some of that content conditionally free, paid or partially paid.
Like it or not, the rest of the world has moved beyond .htaccess and now uses database based user management with session management and .htaccess does not lend itself to functions such as make something free for three days then partially protect it behind a pay wall.
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You realize when you talk about session management and such versus basic auth in .htaccess that's exactly what separates Strongbox from the bandaids, right? Strongbox was the first major system to have proper authentication sessions on the web.
IF you're dripping content, making different content available to different members, and having content switch fron free to paid and back, then MagicMembers might make sense. For what most webmasters want, having people pay before accessing the members' area, MagicMembers is completely unnecessary. Again, it's five thousand lines of code to accomplish what can be fine in six lines. Completely the wrong tool for the job that most webmasters want done, when we ask them what they want.
"The complex billing integration is just a small part" is right. Then there's the 99% of MagicMembers which, so far, none of our webmasters have been interested in. No need to buy a house in order to get the shower head.