Sadly for me, it is a dealbreaker because I use it all day, everyday. I hope they do fix it, otherwise it really was $10 I cannot get back
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Sadly for me, it is a dealbreaker because I use it all day, everyday. I hope they do fix it, otherwise it really was $10 I cannot get back
They've said they'll be adding multiple account columns in a future version. When will that be? Who knows. You could get a refund in the meantime if you really wanted to via the usual method, but it's just $10, so... *shrug*
That is good to know. $10 is still money and it's a function I use every single day
If it's going to cause you anxiety, get a refund now until they add the feature: https://www.imore.com/how-to-get-refund-itunes-app-store
Problem solved!
C'mon guys..
If we don't support apps like this with a simple $10 every now and then, we'll be left with the hot garbage that is native Twitter on a web browser.
If we don't support apps like this with a simple $10 every now and then, we'll be left with the hot garbage that is native Twitter on a web browser.
“pAid upgrade...”
No thanks
Take your money now, add features users have been requesting later.... no thanks
No thanks
Take your money now, add features users have been requesting later.... no thanks
It's $10 for an upgrade app that I have used several hours a day for the past few years...
Yeah. No problem supporting indie devs. Plus I don't have to deal with the pos that is twitter's website. Adde bonus of a dark theme.
Yeah. No problem supporting indie devs. Plus I don't have to deal with the pos that is twitter's website. Adde bonus of a dark theme.
Would love to see a Tweetbot 3 vs Twitterrific 5 article MR! 
Normally I'd agree, but the timing just seems pretty gross. They discount Tweetbot 2 because Twitter for Mac goes down, and then launch Tweetbot 3 weeks later. Seems like they're betting on people that had to migrate having to buy both - which is the boat I'm in now.
it's almost like this is their job or something....like they depend on it to put food on the table. SOME NERVE.
I just bought Tweetbot 3 for Mac.
I bought the first version for $20 in 2012. Thats little over $3 per year for an app I use daily. I happily paid $10 for version 3.
I bought the first version for $20 in 2012. Thats little over $3 per year for an app I use daily. I happily paid $10 for version 3.
So they shouldn't have provided a discount and should have just kept selling it at full price and that would have been better somehow?
App developers on the App Store are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Apple provides no ability to offer upgrading pricing, so developers will either have some people disappointed by having purchased an existing version only to find a new version released a few weeks later, or they have to pull it from sale during that period (and then enable pre-ordering for the new version, if that's a thing that's available on the Mac App Store like it is on iOS, and have people complain that "pre-orders for apps are stupid", while simultaneously making it impossible for anyone to buy and start using even the existing app right away if they wanted to).
If they were to pull it from sale, how long do you feel would be a reasonable time frame for them to have it unavailable for? Obviously longer than a few weeks, since you're suggesting that their providing of a discount and then 7 weeks later releasing a new version was "pretty gross". Should they have it unavailable for months prior to releasing a new version?
The reality is that there's no good solution unless Apple provides upgrade pricing. Even then, someone would complain that they just bought the existing version and now have to pay more money for an upgrade.
And blimey, we're talking about $10. How much do people spend on their phone bills alone, every single month? If people are in a position in life that they are so cost-sensitive that spending $10 for a new version of one of their most used apps is an issue for them, they probably shouldn't be buying any apps at all, they should be concentrating on how they're going to buy their next meal.
If a third party Twitter client is important to you (it is to me), be thankful that anyone is even developing one given the tenuous economics of being at Twitter's mercy. They certainly can't be expected to keep doing it if they can't charge for new versions.
Right, and as much as I hate to say it, paid app pricing model tends to penalize customers who buy apps many months after the app is released.
For multi-platform apps with strong followers like Fantastical, OmniFocus, Things, and Tweetbot, it may not be a bad idea to offer subscription pricing along with purchasing options.
I'm happy to throw a few quid to a developer of an app I use basically daily, even if the update doesn't really have any benefit for me.
Fair enough if some people don't, but its an unforced update after several years so moaning about it is pretty petty.
Fair enough if some people don't, but its an unforced update after several years so moaning about it is pretty petty.
I had no problem at all paying for the $10 new version and supporting these guys and their awesome app. It's probably the #2 app I use across my devices after Firefox, which I also support.
Some app developers work hard to make their apps the best they can and they should be compensated for that effort, just like anyone else who works a job and earns a paycheck. We work to earn money to put food on our tables, a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs. These developers at Tapbots also deserve to get a paycheck to live from.
Free stuff, free apps or updates are nice and all, but we all have bills to pay too.
Anyway, I'm hoping that they put back the Read Later option because I use that a lot with Instapaper. Dark mode looks a little off to me with the weird contrast between the left-hand pane and the panels. Maybe they could tweak that a little.
Everything else seems pretty cool to me.
Some app developers work hard to make their apps the best they can and they should be compensated for that effort, just like anyone else who works a job and earns a paycheck. We work to earn money to put food on our tables, a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs. These developers at Tapbots also deserve to get a paycheck to live from.
Free stuff, free apps or updates are nice and all, but we all have bills to pay too.
Anyway, I'm hoping that they put back the Read Later option because I use that a lot with Instapaper. Dark mode looks a little off to me with the weird contrast between the left-hand pane and the panels. Maybe they could tweak that a little.
Everything else seems pretty cool to me.
It's currently postponed indefinitely.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/6/17206524/twitter-tweetbot-twitterrific-apps-features-api-changes
Love everything about the new version (editing mute filters is now marginally usable as opposed to almost impossible). But did they forget about the New Tweet button?
Oh. Hahaha. I have that hidden by the dock. Really poor placement for such an important button.
I purchased it. Tweetbot 2 was a free upgrade so I don't mind. It's still the best 3rd Party Twitter client out there. Just having Dark Mode is actually worth it IMO. The option for small media previews is gone though so that's a bummer. You can resize the window and it makes the media smaller but I just want small media previews back regardless of window/column size. I like the adjustable side navigation columns a lot more than I thought I would. I actually thought I wouldn't care. But I like it.
Actually they provided loads of updates over the 4 years of that app. I was very satisfied and have now purchased version 3.
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You could always program your own.
No, they really didn't. Most of what changed was simply bug fixes and updates to add new features Twitter added long before they got around to doing so. Certainly not many updates in 3 years since version 2 was released back in 2015.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43926/tweetbot/version-history
I paid for the upgrade as soon as I saw it was available, and I'm glad to have done so, however, I'm switching back to version 2 due to bugs/regressions/removal of features:
- Loss of Instapaper support
- Removal of image preview size options
- Removal of mute options. (Version 3 only offers to mute a user for 24 hours in contextual menus and the menu bar and loses the intelligence that version 2 had when muting from within a search, but does add options to edit a muted user from the mute list.)
- Various other UI bugs
- The truncated text in tweets from Instagram is still a problem, and clicking on the link just shows the photo, not the caption.