(2019-02-26, 21:15)Dennis_D Wrote: Not all of us are developers or know about the various odd corners where Lunatixz and other developers discuss things. Don't get impatient with us about that.
Google? It's not that hard. Just search for Lunatixz or PseudoTV Live! and you'll find all sorts of places where information has been posted in the past, including on these forums, on other forums, on places like Reddit, etc. If you can't be bothered to do at least that much for something that is as important to people as the hysteria in this thread then how important is it to you really?
In any case for some of us it's not at all about finding the information as much as it is about remembering it being said and hunting it down. Some of us having been using PseudoTV for a very long time, we even remember the earlier versions when it was called TV Time...
(2019-02-26, 21:15)Dennis_D Wrote: This is the Kodi forum. PTVL is a Kodi addon. We're even in a subsection devoted entirely to this addon. It is the most natural place in the world to ask for current info about it.
There's a huge difference between asking for a status update and what we saw in this thread.
(2019-02-26, 21:15)Dennis_D Wrote: That being said, there is a whole story to why PTVL still hasn't been released and why Lunatixz is mostly quiet on the issue.
Honestly, looking at this thread, I couldn't imagine
why Lunatixz hasn't felt like talking about it.
Again, it's not like this is a secret or anything. The story is simple: Lunatixz saw a cool addon and wanted to extend it for his own use. He was kind enough to make it an open beta so that we could all benefit--us by being able to use a cool addon while it was being developed and him by making use of crowdsource bug reports so he could bring it up to snuff faster. When people insisted on remaining with earlier unsupported versions of the app and complaining about bugs which were
already known and
fixed he warned people that he would close the beta testing to just himself and his own use if people didn't get on board and stop spamming him with bugs for
old code. People ignored those warnings and so he simply stopped releasing new versions publicly.
(2019-02-26, 21:15)Dennis_D Wrote: I had to dig around a fair amount to find out most of it. Learning those details (most of which escape me now) made it a bit easier to remain patient.
See? It is possible to find this information! You yourself are proof of it! You cared enough to do the research. If others choose not to do so then they clearly don't care all that much do they?
(2019-02-26, 21:15)Dennis_D Wrote: Perhaps an admin or moderator could write out the whole thing once and post it at the top of the section. Like what was done for the "Kodi Box" business. Then overly eager inquiries can simply be referred there, without any unpleasant back-and-forths.
Oh... Oh...dude. This is like the
worst example you could have picked. They did just that to broadcast the unaffiliated nature of Kodi Boxes sold by scammers and it has helped Not. At. All.
This is because people are not 'overly eager' on these subjects. They are entitled. Lunatixz owes us nothing. He doesn't even need to release the working code he is using on his own systems. He owes no obligations to any of us, including anyone who donated in the past.
He is free to continue using the code he wrote (and rewrote and rewrote and..) on his own systems for his own pleasure for as long as he likes and never make a 0.9.x or a 1.0 release at all. He has working code that functions and does what he wants it to do that he tested himself and refactored all on his own. Now he has said that he will release the addon, first for a final open beta as 0.9.x and then as a final 1.0 release and because he's been honorable in the past about what he says he will do and because he's said what he meant and done what he said he would do in the past I believe him.
All these demands by those late to the party who insist that he must release his code to github, that he must give account to them when they can't be bothered to do the least bit of searching on the issue are pathetic. The little bit I've donated to him in the past does not entitle me to anything beyond the enjoyment I got from it already in previous versions. The sheer entitlement in this thread makes me sick. If it were me I'd have walked away from everything a long time ago by now disgusted. Thankfully Lunatixz is not me.