Grr ... Phone said it discarded my first message. Sorry for (abbreviated) double post :) On 14/10/2011 9:34 AM, "Chris Burgess" <[email protected]> wrote:
> By chance I caught an interview a day our two ago on The Changelog which > asks most of your questions. > > > http://thechangelog.com/post/11317828888/episode-0-6-8-growl-and-open-source-in-the-app-store-wit > > Hth > 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.
