Looks like the developer got greedy.... - ifwebmaster

Sorry you feel that way Gerry. We didn't incorporate ads via the Deck because of greed, we did it to help pay the development costs. Twitterrific has gone from being a small side project done for fun to a full fledged application with tens of thousands of users.

Many of them submit bug reports, requests for new features and support questions every single week. When we have to take hours away from working on projects we can bill against to improve a software product that generates no revenue what-so-ever, we start to think twice about updating it. That's not good for users and it's not good for Twitterrific.

You can use the application free of charge and view a well designed ad every hour, or you can elect to pay $14.95 and remove ads from your twitter timeline. Either way supports our efforts to bring new features to the software. Some will agree, others will not.

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Thursday, November 01 2007 @ 10:27 PM PDT

I feel the way you did this is disingenuous. - great.potato

You could outright charge for your software.

You could use the shareware module.

You could mention in the change log here that ads are now included.

Instead, your entry here still reads "free", but your users are blackmailed with hourly, "well designed" advertisements that they have no way of knowing about before they download the update. As a developer myself, I most definitely understand the time sink a small, helpful mini-utility can turn out to be, but I do not feel that that alone excuses bad behavior to your users, paying or not. It says something quite negative about your attitude towards users.

I will no longer use this application, and I will encourage others to avoid it and your company in the future.

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Friday, November 02 2007 @ 06:10 PM PDT

Looks like the developer got greedy.... - ifwebmaster

Sorry you feel that way Gerry. We didn't incorporate ads via the Deck because of greed, we did it to help pay the development costs. Twitterrific has gone from being a small side project done for fun to a full fledged application with tens of thousands of users.

Many of them submit bug reports, requests for new features and support questions every single week. When we have to take hours away from working on projects we can bill against to improve a software product that generates no revenue what-so-ever, we start to think twice about updating it. That's not good for users and it's not good for Twitterrific.

You can use the application free of charge and view a well designed ad every hour, or you can elect to pay $14.95 and remove ads from your twitter timeline. Either way supports our efforts to bring new features to the software. Some will agree, others will not.

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Thursday, November 01 2007 @ 10:31 PM PDT

Looks like the developer got greedy.... - joaocarlos

Although I think a developer has the right to charge whatever he wants for his programs (which includes switching from freeware to shareware/adware models), I agree with gerryvz in this point: you guys should include the change of license type in the release notes and also in VersionTracker description.

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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 03:32 AM PDT

Looks like the developer got greedy.... - joaocarlos

Although I think a developer has the right to charge whatever he wants for his programs (which includes switching from freeware to shareware/adware models), I agree with gerryvz in this point: you guys should include the change of license type in the release notes and also in VersionTracker summary.

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Saturday, November 03 2007 @ 03:37 AM PDT