I think you guys have made some wrong turns in terms of user experience lately.
For one, I was surprised I was still getting notifications that Mail 5.1 wasn't loading GrowlMail, yet Growl still reported it was up to date. It was only when I manually went to check the website that I discovered it now lives in the App store. So you probably lost a chunk of your old userbase there, but hey maybe the new blood makes up for it. Then I read GrowlMail (and GrowlSafari) is no longer supported, WTF that's the my main reason for using Growl. Reading on, oh GrowlMail is just being forked as an external project. OK fine, that could be promoted a little better instead of the doom-and-gloom complaining about how hard it has been to maintain. Although, really? I've been an early adopter of many of the past OS updates, in my experience it has been a simple matter of a few seconds to update the version compatibility string. If that's really too hard to support what seems to be your most popular plugin, I'd say your dev priorities are a little out of whack. I realize you want to focus on the core notification library, but it's important to dog-food and provide a few of your own plugins: provides internal testing, demo code for devs, clear out-of-box functionality for users, and perhaps most importantly a "killer app" to attract users in the first place. Well whatever, so I have to hunt down a bunch of external plugins to get any functionality. Oh but now I read 1.3 drops support for various API protocols, so a bunch of 1.2-based apps are going to be broken until they are updated too. And now you want me to pay $2 for this? That's cheap, and I'd love to support developers, but your timing is terrible. I've had to manually track down this update, lost my favorite plugins so now I have to figure that out too, and who knows if they'll even be supported anymore. Sounds like I'm paying to take several steps backwards, I'm not really enthusiastic about rewarding this new direction. :( Thanks, -Ethan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
