An easy solution is to not delete your IdnoPlugins folder when upgrading, but rather update the folders that sit inside it. If you're using other custom plugins, you'll find you need to do that, too.

We switched to Convoy because most people found the social media plugins too cumbersome to set up. Our figuring was that technical users would also have the technology knowhow to grab the other plugins from GitHub.

To be completely transparent, the support burden for the social media plugins was untenable - particularly as self-hosters typically aren't customers. (Usually self-hosters will pay another company for their hosting, but we don't see any of that.) Another option we're exploring is support for self-hosted users, although that would likely run to more than Convoy's $5.

Right now, Convoy contains social media functionality, which we've heard from a lot of people is important. Due to requirements imposed on us by Google, it will be the only way self-hosted users can syndicate to Google+ Pages. But over time we'll be adding things like real-time updates and better search, which would be impossible to enable for most self-hosted users running on shared hosts.

We continue to have a commitment to open source, and all functionality in Convoy will be available via plugins, unless we're prohibited from open sourcing something (as is true with Google+). As it becomes available, you'll be able to find it all on GitHub.