--On Saturday, October 29, 2005 05:55 PM +0200 Manuel Breitfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right. There are even people who use v1 and are satisfied. ;) Ingrid (my wife) still uses a v2 build. I don't trouble it since she's never said it crashed, and it works for her. I fear that I may disturb that tranquility with an upgrade. :) > Important point here. The fixed bug list is impressive - quite sure. > But you, 9Val, have to admit that there is a huge amount of bugs > which were introduced by fancy features and unicode. So this whole > list of fixed bugs gives a false impression when compared to things > that worked in v3.0. >From my personal POV, threading no longer works the way it used to. Over versions, thread fixing and other enhancements have come our way. However, I now read TBOT threaded by subject and not references because something went wrong. There's a bug that shows its ugly face only when you're browsing massive threads. Threads that you'll likely only see on TBOT. :) Same thing with new messages being added to a threaded list. Buggy. Was not like that before. But what .... these aren't showstoppers. The average user will either not notice them or mind their presence. <sigh> > I no longer use TB!. However, I read the list sometimes. I really was > wondering how you, as a IMAP expert, could stick to TB!. :) Hope, I guess. Hanging on in anticipation that IMAP will improve so that I eventually end up with the best of both worlds. However, my hope has now been converted to indifference. I've been involved with TB! support and these lists for so long that I haven't been treating it as just another e-mail client. I'd give it more slack and put up with it more because of the time and energy I've put into this community and the positives I've felt about its development. However, things are now quite different. > Perhaps you, Ritlabs, should think about this situation. There are > users who really love TB!. They used it as their own product - each > day. They really know to deal with everything in the product. They > paid for each new version. However, they had to realize that TB!s > development is stuck. They realize that the promisses to focus on > IMAP have been broken once more - for fancy tabs, which brought new > bugs. I actually welcome the new features, no matter what and where, provided that they don't break any other feature or behaviour in the process of adding these new features. Unfortunately, this isn't the case and the cleaning up after adding isn't, IMO, good enough. Why? This is leading to anxiety with upgrading. Anxiety based on the concern that an often used feature will no longer work quite the way it used to. Worse, the bugs with this feature that worked all along before the upgrade are then put on a low priority list since the nature of the mess up isn't that important to the average user. So what you end up with is a bunch of disgruntled *established* customers with frankly broken, semi-broken, or slightly, though annoyingly broken features that previously worked well before. These established users will then warn prospective customers that they'll likely experience the same thing if they come aboard. > Let me name you, Allie, and Tony (I really enjoy each of your > comments here *g*). cheers! :) > That's a pity and that's the point that needs discussion - nothing > else. My point exactly. -- -=Curtis=- PGPKey: http:rsakey.aimlink.name System specs: http://specs.aimlink.name -=-=- Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
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