Jon what is the future of Sublime Text?

[Vanishing]

Jon doesn’t have a choice of whether or not to spend time supporting his customers. Starting a company has implications and raises expectations. If a company doesn’t live up to those expectations, then the customers have a valid reason for telling the world about it.

For fuck’s sake, didn’t you read the EULA? If you don’t agree with it, just don’t buy the product and go find another editor. It is that simple.

[quote]NO WARRANTIES
SUBLIME HQ PTY LTD expressly disclaims any warranty for SUBLIME TEXT, which is provided ‘as is’ without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, or fitness of a particular purpose.[/quote]

Well said.

[ntenney]

ST ought to support the users of the product. A simple blog update would answer the question of whether it’s abandon ware or not. Personally, I feel like it’s headed in the same direction as TM.

Jon just put out 2 releases in 24 hours. That should answer the question on whether or not it’s abandonware. I disagree with your assessment. If I pay for software, I expect software. If I pay for support, I expect support. In the case of some software, when you pay for the software, they guarantee some level of support, and it’s explicitly stated that you are getting some level of support with your software. Sublime has never stated any level of support with the purchase of the software. That’s the point I was trying to make. Some people have expected something that was never explicitly stated.

[Kaniken]

[quote=“ntenney”]

ST ought to support the users of the product. A simple blog update would answer the question of whether it’s abandon ware or not. Personally, I feel like it’s headed in the same direction as TM.

Jon just put out 2 releases in 24 hours. That should answer the question on whether or not it’s abandonware. [/quote]

That seems to be his (moderately succesfull) strategy: put out a few tiny releases that took him 2 hours to cook up ever so often, to get clueless clowns like you to act as his “not abandonware” alibies.

What has really happened of real value in ST the last six months? Oh yeah, image preview and menu fixes on linux.

qed.

[ntenney]

[quote=“Kaniken”]That seems to be his (moderately succesfull) strategy: put out a few tiny releases that took him 2 hours to cook up ever so often, to get clueless clowns like you to act as his “not abandonware” alibies.

What has really happened of real value in ST the last six months? Oh yeah, image preview and menu fixes on linux.

qed.[/quote]

I’m jealous of the fact that somehow Jon has let you see the source code for sublime so that you can make that determination of how long each update takes him to write.

Kaniken, I’ve tried to be nice. I disagree with your conclusions, but I’ve never called you names or made any negative comments against you. You, on the other hand have called people names and seem far too invested in trashing an editor that you’ve already said that you aren’t going to be purchasing. Your behavior in this instance seems rather odd, and one begins to question your motives.

Looking back at the change logs for ST3 for the last 6 months, the only month in which there wasn’t at least 1 update for ST3 was the month of September. Most of those months, there were multiple updates. So, for 1 month there’s no update, and suddenly folks are wondering if Sublime has been abandoned. Other than Brackets, how many other editors out there put out even so much as a monthly update? SlickEdit updates once or twice a year, and as far as I have seen doesn’t put out weekly blog posts telling people that they are still working on it. Months go by without any word from Microsoft on Visual Studio. What is it about Sublime that makes people so insecure as to demand that Jon post “regular” status updates (for varying definitions of regular)?

[Saxi]

[quote=“ntenney”]

$70 isn’t exactly chump change when it comes to a text editor. That’s pretty premium/niche product there.

In the world of developer tools, $70 is chump change.[/quote]

That doesn’t change the point of my statement in the least. Sublime Text is not an IDE it is a text editor albeit a great one. $70 is a lot for a text editor, especially when you get near zero support with it.

[Steve_Davis]

If you didn’t pay, what support is realistic? If you did pay, you probably know the score.

IMHO I’m willing to give time, trust and faith. Why? Because this is already the best darn text editor on the planet, and taking it further takes clear thinking and consideration – which is likely what’s happening.

/s

[Vanishing]

[quote=“Kaniken”]

ST ought to support the users of the product. A simple blog update would answer the question of whether it’s abandon ware or not. Personally, I feel like it’s headed in the same direction as TM.

Jon just put out 2 releases in 24 hours. That should answer the question on whether or not it’s abandonware.

That seems to be his (moderately succesfull) strategy: put out a few tiny releases that took him 2 hours to cook up ever so often, to get clueless clowns like you to act as his “not abandonware” alibies.

What has really happened of real value in ST the last six months? Oh yeah, image preview and menu fixes on linux.

qed.[/quote]

Don’t like it? GTFO

[Binocular222]

I’m satisfied with Sublime Text’s development.
Many softwares used to be great but after adding too many feature, become slow and diminish into bloatware.
In the past 6 months, Sublime added a very nice method to counter overly crowded tabs and also image preview. Very nice, very core-essential. Other features can be done via plugins.

Regarding slow response to forum posts, it would be incredible for a single person to both coding and roaming his forum. The only one I know is Don (developer of XYplorer)

[Kaniken]

Regarding slow response to forum posts, it would be incredible for a single person to both coding and roaming his forum. The only one I know is Don (developer of XYplorer)

That’s a question of priority.

Now, I can live with and even understand forum posts not being answered, but support mails to customers and prospective customers should be answered, no?

[Nova]

[quote=“ntenney”] …Cut]
Looking back at the change logs for ST3 for the last 6 months, the only month in which there wasn’t at least 1 update for ST3 was the month of September. Most of those months, there were multiple updates. So, for 1 month there’s no update, and suddenly folks are wondering if Sublime has been abandoned. Other than Brackets, how many other editors out there put out even so much as a monthly update? SlickEdit updates once or twice a year, and as far as I have seen doesn’t put out weekly blog posts telling people that they are still working on it. Months go by without any word from Microsoft on Visual Studio. What is it about Sublime that makes people so insecure as to demand that Jon post “regular” status updates (for varying definitions of regular)?[/quote]

I completely agree.
For the price, I think that 70$ is reasonable: have a look out there, to prices of other products (e.g. UltraEdit? SlickEdit? …)
Furthermore, I think that one of the winning points of ST is the community: ST would not be what it is, without the (big, great) list of plugins it has. So, my request would be: stop soiling this community with threads like this, and go on.

P.S. as I already said in another thread: evaluating the effort from the changelog is no sense. Any developer (as any user of ST should be) should admit that.

[Kaniken]

P.S. as I already said in another thread: evaluating the effort from the changelog is no sense. Any developer (as any user of ST should be) should admit that.

It makes very much sense if the changelog is truthful. So from a functional viewpoint, the progress of ST has stalled.

Unless you think image preview is a fantastic feature in a text-editor, not much has happened the past six months.

[Nova]

Unless you think image preview is a fantastic feature in a text-editor …]

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