Hello Peter, A reminder of what Peter Fjelsten on TBBETA typed on: Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 14:17:05 GMT +0200
> But I wonder how many "ordinary" users (by ordinary I mean people who > are disinterested in discussing software on mailing lists) feel that TB! > is full of bugs. If the majority feel this, then you're right. This is something we'll never know for sure. As an "ordinary user" of loads of other software I know how I would and do react when trying new products. I doubt anyone joins a mailing list for every single piece of software they use. I would assume they download it, try it and after 30 days, if they persist with it that long, they buy it. If they don't like it or it's full of bugs after a few days they ditch it and try something else. When I first tried TB, v1.4 it worked like a dream, it didn't have fancy bells and gold knobs but it worked perfectly so I bought it. Should I find myself in the same situation today with AV's, floating point errors, no message loaded and such like popping up every time I boot it up I too wouldn't give it a second glance before moving on. To answer your question, how many people do we know of on these list that no longer use TB? And what's more, how many people would RL estimate download TB but never register it... How many of those people write to RL saying "I tried your software but I don't like it because..." RL must know how many copies of TB have been downloaded compared to how many of those copies have been registered. Provide a product that works far better than TB does now, a product that can be seen to be supported with a team that takes notice of it's beta testers and I bet that ratio will rise dramatically. Now you can answer me one question. Why are we wasting our time as beta testers if the development team are going to ignore 99% or our input? It seems like we're here just to test new functions, and when we tell them they don't work they ignore it and add something else new for us to test next beta release. -- Tony. Using The Bat! v3.61.13 Echo (Beta) on a G5 iMac ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.61.13 (Echo) | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
