I added a note that Growl in the app store is a paid update. What else are you talking about that could be changed here?
-- Chris Forsythe On Monday, November 7, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Al wrote: > You also need to make the message more clear on the landing page users > are directed to by the Growl updater. It leads the user to believe > that if they are using Lion that they cannot continue to use 1.2.2. > Remember - most of your users are not developers, but instead users > who installed your software because an installer from another app > (Adium, Trillian to name a couple) prompted them to do so. I'm not so > sure that it wasn't intentional dishonesty, but if it was you should > fix that page ASAP and also not drive users crazy with update > messages. > > On Nov 6, 9:38 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected] > (http://growl.info)> wrote: > > I was thinking of doing something similar, but I'll just ask them if I can > > copy that text, it's not bad. :) > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Zac Bowling <[email protected] > > (http://gmail.com)> wrote: > > > There is a growing thread on hackernews. I suggest doing damage control > > > before the Growl brand is tarnished. Fix up the source page on the > > > growl.info (http://growl.info) and make it known it's also still open > > > source. > > > > > > > > > > I suggest looking at how Textual does it on their page. > > > http://www.codeux.com/textual/ > > > > > > > > > > The most interesting comment over there is that developers are backing out > > > because as they see it, now growl is a dependency that costs money for > > > them > > > to ask their users to use and are putting their own notification systems > > > in > > > and are backing out from everything Growl. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Growl Discuss" group. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/growldiscuss/-/fxVA6Y_rrfsJ. > > > > > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] > > > (mailto:[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] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[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.
