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Yeah as a long time user and lover of multiple JetBrains IDEs this is the first feature I'd consider was user-hostile, forced upon you and taking up valuable real estate, when all I want is to disable and never be interrupted by it again. I believe I was able finally to disable it in the latest release, hopefully it doesn't become something I have to disable on every update.

This feature felt like an intrusive Windows Ad or an unwanted U2 Album that has no place in a commercial tool.

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> forced upon you and taking up valuable real estate,

Right click -> Hide.

Problem solved faster than it took to write this comment.

It can be disabled now, it couldn't before. Instead it continually nagged about needing to be updated. Something I never wanted or used (that's effectively an Ad for a paid service) shouldn't be interrupting my dev workflow in a commercial tool.

I use multiple products from Jetbrains on multiple computers.

> Right click -> Hide

Times 4. I hate it.

That’s one issue with the Jetbrains world. One IDE to configure per software stack is a bit much. Hopefully Jetbrains Fleet delivers.

With a few exceptions like Rider for dotnet, you can just use IntelliJ with plugins instead of the separate IDEs.

Settings sync is a thing

People LOVE to be outraged. I don't use jetbrain products at all, and find these outrage reactions hilarious.

There's a whatsapp group where neighbors of my gated community chat, about current issues in the community. Realistically, you mostly see the people that don't work and have nothing to do while their kids return from school . And they basically whine about the most absurd an asinine things. We call it "argüende" in Spanish. People forming a storm in a teacup with these threads look similar to that.

Imagine waking up every morning to your neighbour parking their pram in front of your apartment door so every time when you go out you need to move it out of the way.

How many times will you suffer that before becoming outraged yourself? That's what I feel after every update, on all the 3 IDEs times 2 of the computers that I'm using. Do you allow me to be annoyed at this?

0 times, because on the first occasion I talk to my neighbor and ask them to stop.

We already did that[1]. Nothing so far.

[1] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1973/Provide-the-po...

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