Future of Alt.Binz

[jjwerrett]

far as i see some are willing donate the full 30 some are willing to donate a bit and some arnt at all,

far as i see forget this poll just get a donation tab setup and see how it goes as development has like come to a hault.

i rather work on this with open source than see a good prgram go to the waste and be a dead dog.

get this donate system up and working asap and let it takes it course and see how it goes.

i am willing donate the 30 it like 15 pound here in the uk nothing hear or there just get something sorted out before people move to diffrent programs

[Varg]

its been almost 2 weeks...have you made your mind Rdl?

[zak_21]

People don't wanna pay $30 because there are alternatives available for free, I'm talking about cracked versions of the most popular binary newsreaders. The thing is alt.binz started out as a free program and I guess people thought it would always be that way. Now the developer is asking $30 for future updates, and people are thinking it's a bit steep. I think that donations would have received a far more sympathetic response from alt.binz users rather than asking for $30 outright. The other problem is that despite alt.binz being beta, and despite there being features that some others have requested, there is NOTHING I need added to this program that would make it any better, for me alt.binz has been perfect straight out of the box and I have little need for upgrades. If the developer adds a donate button to the user interface I will be the first person to click on it.

[marxjolle]

Deffo yes, had pleasure to use some of Rdl's softs and every time i was pleasantly surprised. As of altbinz 10/10 from me, after first time i installed it never got back to Newsbin.

Cheers.

[RuLorZ]

@zak_21
Donations aren't working well. cause nobody will donate. if it's free,
99% think, hey that's cool. why should i donate for something like thtat.
just my experience witht that.

i think 30$ is too much. peolpe don't want to pay 30 bugs for a software that started free. and software in the leeching environment... hmmm.... how long would it take to get a cracked altbinz version?

i think 15$ could work better. i would pay 15$ without a thought. but at 30$ i start thinking about.

what are the devs thinking about?

[Walker]

$ 30 dollars is a bit much, but a good program is worth money.

Why such a high price at the beginning there is always a chance later.

[Corwin]

$5 every few years?  Sheesh, you probably lose more than that in change down the back of the sofa over the same period.

I don't have money in my sofa!

 I'm really striggling to understand how people who use altbinz regularly enought to warrant registering on the forum here, voting and positng a comment think it's only worth the price of a couple of burgers every few years to them.

Perhaps its the difficult in getting the money to him which puts some people of. It's different if you can just put it in someones hand.

[emtec666]

Not surprised this was coming since the header fetching was never implemented.

Then again I think it's only fair that ppl who write decent software can make some money on it.

I hope there will be a freeware version (still developed) and a payed version with header fetching + SuperSearch. $ 20/ 20 euro seems like a fair price to me, at least I would be interested in upgrading then

[jjwerrett]

well all this chat is groovy but when is the developer gonna reply he makes this and all but heard nothing bout what happening,

is this program not gona be worked on now or what it been like just weeks gone by with no reply from the top dog to what on earth is gona happen.

be nice to have some update on whats gona happen with alt.binz and if there gona be a donation system or not.

if nothing gona happen least past the project on to someone who will carry it on and not just leave this to fade away.

its been worked on its getting closer to being a decent program why just quit or just forget it all what a waste of time personally.

i think we should just either donate or not what ever is made good keep it and enjoy till then keep us updated on what you doing with new builds and if you doing any

[kC_]

the lack of any prescence & support from the developer in the past weeks is kinda worrying, has been users posting problems and requests, with no answer at all.

after my first post of a "definate YES", im now a "maybe yes"

would now prefer application is made open source, with volountry donations

[Varg]

yeah i agree...if people wont get any support...why do they wanna donate? if the developer doesnt start to respond people are gonna get pissed off and not donate or buy

[Phiesh]

Yeah.. I wouldnt pay for altbinz. He's asking as much as a premium newsreader costs. Altbinz doesnt download headers and is a newsleecher ripoff. He's not even posting or responding to anything here in his own forum. Common sense should tell you guys to stay far away from this kinda thing. Dont give your money away so easily people. There are better newsreaders out there for the same price or even free. From what it looks like its a take the money and run kinda thing.

[kC_]

i wouldnt agree about better news applications (specifically for search & leech)
altbinz the best there is

but has been so little communication, that it does seem like the project is now  offically dead

a paypal donations button was requested by many regulars on the irc channel a looooong time ago, people were willing to donate, i asked multiple times, was just told "VERY soon" each time, but the donation button never came.

but now such a long layoff, people will lose confidence :roll:

[Hecks]

a paypal donations button was requested by many regulars on the irc channel a looooong time ago, people were willing to donate, i asked multiple times, was just told "VERY soon" each time, but the donation button never came.

That one's easily answered, at least: Paypal doesn't operate in Serbia, so rdl has to explore other options - unsuccessfully so far, it seems.

-Hecks

[IPNightly]

I feel that a fee maybe called for but not $30 dollars, maybe $20 as it does not have the ability to download headers.

If there is not support for the paid verion maybe it can be turned over to open source to keep the updates coming and take the load off the author.