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  • Yes, which means that issues stay open for 5+ months, with absolutely no communication from the dev. Every time you have to pray that they didn’t abandon the app, and that they will come back and fix your issue.

    This wouldn’t be a problem if they communicated more often or did smaller releases. And it was fine when I paid something like 2€, but it’s no longer fine when paying 20€.






  • I once had to go on a longer medical leave, couple of months. In preparation, I documented everything - pages upon pages answering all questions in easily searchable formats. For more than a month, any questions I got were answered with links to specific sections in the documentation, so people would know where to find everything. I put the links everywhere, in total there were at least 200 links to various sections of the documentation throughout all our communication mediums, as well as all information repositories.

    After I came back from leave, most of the things I was responsible for were turned off. When I asked why, the response was “we didn’t find your documentation”.

    I no longer care whether things keep working.




  • That would be a worthwhile idea if any evidence pointed towards it (e.g. any public documentation about legal communications).

    Without any evidence, it’s a useless accusation for an explanation that:

    • has happened in many documented cases, both bigger studios as well as indies
    • happens to many people every day with similarly important data (just search for new people trying to recover their incredibly important data - it’s a very common occurrence)
    • is especially likely to happen to fresh developers, which they were

    I can accuse you of any number of horrible things, and I’d have the same amount of evidence you have for your accusation. What would this add to the discussion?


  • Then tell me: what else could the reason be? Why make people deliberately think you’re stupid? What’s the advantage?

    And yes, this is a thing that happens literally to thousands of people every day. Almost everyone has a “I didn’t make backups” story. Humans aren’t born perfect - they make mistakes and learn from them. How many doctoral theses do you think are lost every day due to missing backups? Or how much art, how much data in general?

    Instead of assuming some evil genius agenda hiding behind their stupid stated reason, you could just try to accept that people make mistakes. But you surely don’t ever make any, so why would anyone else?