So, is ConnectedText really dead now?

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Posted by Andy Brice
Nov 29, 2017 at 08:53 AM

If you are interested in personal wikis you might also want to take a look at:
https://scribbleton.com/

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Posted by Prion
Nov 29, 2017 at 09:23 AM

This kind of post (whether done in good faith or intended as a shortcut to a quicker answer) may have unintended consequences for single developers who first and foremost rely on word of mouth.
A few messages such as the one above discourage future buyers and create exactly the outcome predicted (see, I told ye!) but is entirely self fulfilling.
A sustainable shareware culture does not work like this and yes, occasionally programs we care about go the way of the dodo but there is no need to increase that rate artificially for some short-lived benefit.

Prion

Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 29, 2017 at 10:09 AM

Hm, well, while it looks good, it suffers from the total lack of a search function… if you want simple but highly functional, I’d go with TiddlyWiki, myself. But much will depend on the quantities of data you’re handling. So DEVONthink and, indeed, Scrivener, offer interesting alternatives for handling very large amounts of data efficiently.

Andy Brice wrote:
If you are interested in personal wikis you might also want to take a
>look at:
>https://scribbleton.com/

Posted by Graham Rhind
Nov 29, 2017 at 10:14 AM

In this case I have to respectfully disagree. Obviously if a website goes down for one day and we all start spreading rumours about a software’s demise, that’s not fair. But in the case of CT there have been concerns about its future, expressed privately first, and publicly later, for over a year. Eduardo has had every chance to clarify the situation but has not done so, so I would say that if he is losing customers because of these rumours that would be down to him. Though in an ideal world we would only buy software for what it does now and not what it might do in the future, we also need to be sure that it continues to work when, for example, operating systems get updates, and clearly knowledge software often contains information we need to be sure that we can continue to access. I have a lot invested in CT so hope that it continues to work on future versions of Windows, but I think it’s fair that situations like this are exposed, as honestly as possible, so that people who choose to buy do so in the full knowledge of the current situation.

Prion wrote:
This kind of post (whether done in good faith or intended as a shortcut
>to a quicker answer) may have unintended consequences for single
>developers who first and foremost rely on word of mouth.
>A few messages such as the one above discourage future buyers and create
>exactly the outcome predicted (see, I told ye!) but is entirely self
>fulfilling.
>A sustainable shareware culture does not work like this and yes,
>occasionally programs we care about go the way of the dodo but there is
>no need to increase that rate artificially for some short-lived benefit.
> >
>Prion

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 29, 2017 at 01:10 PM

It’s possible to access the website, download, try and purchase the software, and it’s fully functional and runs without any bugs at least on my side, so I don’t see how it can be called “dead.”

If you’re unhappy with the lack of development, the responsiveness of the developer, or the level of support, that’s another issue. But the software itself is not dead.

I use a lot of undead software that are no longer being developed and are not even possible to purchase, but they are alive and well on my laptop.

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