Lots of the reasons for these changes are covered in this interview - http://thechangelog.com/post/11317828888/episode-0-6-8-growl-and-open-source-in-the-app-store-wit
Hope that helps! gave me some insight into the project anyway. (I'm new here, hope this hasn't been answered already.) On 14/10/2011 2:56 AM, "ejtttje" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
