Beautiful Silence
A long period of silence from a developer usually means one of two things- either the developer has carried off all the revenues from their application and you probably won't see them again for a year, OR they've been super busy working on new versions of the app, carefully balancing bug fixes with new features, and perhaps working on some other things as well. For better or for worse, we (I) fall into the latter category.
Yes, as it turns out I've been working hard on Times 1.1 (among other things), a fairly major new upgrade to Times that includes a ton of highly requested features and tweaks. However, there are lots of Times users, and some rather serious bugs that really need to be addressed first. As a result, this month we plan to release Times 1.0.5, an extremely big bug squasher as far as bug squashers go. There are a ton of fixes in 1.0.5, in nearly every area you can imagine: performance, feed authentication, memory usage, display glitches, and of course crashes.
I do apologize for the long wait - we wanted to make sure we didn't leave any bugs behind this time. And because we really do mean it, we're opening up Times 1.0.5 a bit early to anyone who wants to give it a spin before it's released. If you think you might be up for this, please email bugs@acrylicapps.com with the subject "Times 1.0.5", and a beta will be sent your way shortly. I invite you to crash this build. There won't be a release until everything is running nice and smoothly.
Thanks again everyone for your continued support and patience.
12 Comments:
Great! I've been visiting this site 10 times a day for the past few weeks, waiting for the next update.
I had to switch to another newsreader so I could wait for the bug fixes. I hope it fixes the most important bugs i've found, and makes this beautiful newsreader usable!
I sent you an e-mail 2 days ago and I haven't received it yet :S
Hi Dustin! I sent an email just a few minutes ago for the beta testing. I can't wait to try this new version out =0) I'm so glad you have stuck with this, you have a wonderful product. Keep at it!
underwalker, please check your email. We just sent the beta out.
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I sent you a bug report with a few problems I had. Still, this is a great release! I'll keep sending reports.
Great work so far Dustin, this is far, far more stable than the previous version.
Apologies for submitting a bug report regarding Spaces, I didn't notice it was in the Known Issues list until afterwards.
Now that I've had a chance to use Times for a decent length of time without crashing, I've come up with a few feature ideas for future versions. Would these be welcome, and if so should I wait until 1.0.5 has been officially released?
Chris [quadrocket]
Yeah, this is a really stable version! I'm really impressed so far. No crashes since I got de second BETA.
can't wait for the 1.1 release keep up the good work! Greece support you!
much improvement needed. i used the trial but didn't fit my needs at this point. you should consider resetting the trial with major new releases so those that did not like it initially could see what has changed.
1.1 release please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH, version 1.0.5 is out, and it RULES!
Congratulations!
Looking forward to 1.1
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