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Jetbrains actively deleting negative reviews for AI plugin

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This is why I never trust reviews from the official company website unless there are a sufficient number of negative reviews for some of their products. I don’t care what product it is, someone will have something negative to say about it.

I’ll admit, I expected better from JetBrains. Very disappointing.

Jetbrains is burning their company to the ground trying to chase the latest fad.

They're outright lying to users, censoring any critical discussion, and just throwing all of the trust and goodwill of their paying users in the trash.

I've been subscribed to the all products pack for nearly ten years. Once my fallback license ticks over to 2024, I'm canceling.

I'm extremely not interested in paying such a shitty company monthly for a VSCode knockoff. If I wanted any of it, I'd use VSCode for free. As is, I'm going to continue using the last version with a real UI designed for professionals, not this Little Tykes nonsense.

They recently released a huge bump of their AI package, they probably wanted to differentiate between the older and newer version...still they could have renamed the plugin, or at very least, mark older comments as "for an older version"

The rot started with IDEs on Linux being appallingly slow until JDK17, followed by the new GUI disaster (been going on since 2021), and they showed shades of desperation in a rambling blog post gaslighting their customers that the new GUI was just really great and everyone says so or they get fired.

Just recently, they have started not only cancelling multiple projects but also they are how cancelling dissent. h0h0h0. Who needs TV?!

But their recent innovation of a monospace font family was really great, so there's that.

(Edited to get event in better chronological order.)

They out and out claimed these ridiculous adoption numbers for the new UI with the statement that new UI is not the default and every one of those users opted in.

That's an outright lie, no two ways about it. New UI has been the default for years, on all the JB IDEs I've used. I have no reason to think their adoption numbers aren't also entirely fabricated.

I'm just astonished with how jetbrains is speedrunning enshittification. I've been subscribed for a decade because they were best in class and respectful of their users. I guess that jetbrains is dead now.

Only a matter of time before JB alienates the rest of their users and fade into irrelevancy before selling to Microsoft or someone.

agree 100% -- all cynicism and snark aside, this really depresses me because not only do I remember being so impressed with IDEA in 2001 and how they were clearly determined to show what could be done with Java, but also they continued to keep improving and were, for so long, a beacon of excellence.

To give the developers their due, TeamCity and YouTrack are still impressive, and I look forward to having to use them in anger, because I know they will work correctly. I don't know what's motivating JetBrains' product management lately, but it's not customer loyalty to (what is now) a subscription product range.

Crazy, and sad.

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