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Could people stop spamming Sublime Text beta releases every few hours? Previous submissions:

- 3 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8241434

- 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227111

- 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226102

- 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226133

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> - 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227111

> - 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226102

> - 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8226133

These were not betas.

Think that's bad, you should see when a new Apple thing comes out.

Some thing that gets the whole industry excited and usually sells in the tens of millions of units?

Yeah, we should stop discussing those...

... of course we shouldn't discuss such things here. Here's the quote about Off-topic submissions from HN guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Keyword being "probably" here, it's on the news, but it also has a big impact on tech and even on startups, so it may very well be worth discussing.

The submission guidelines also state:

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

In other words, if it gets up-voted here hackers probably find it interesting and it's a useful post. Considering the discussion generated when Apple releases a new product and it's relevance to hackers (e.g. a new version of iOS means a new SDK + many new API's for hackers) those posts seem relevant.

Keyword: probably. Also, "TV news". The rule is supposed to weed-out regular news stuff (from the Kardasians to what Obama said).

It obviously doesn't rule out tech related news, e.g Facebook buying Whatsapp for 16 billion would surely have made TV news, but it's obviously a topic of interest for here too.

Well, people get excited after some months of stalled development.

Man I would hate to be the ST devs. Everyone keeps calling it stalled, dead, etc. Not sure what release speed would make the difference to commenters here.

Are there lots of unfixed bugs or something? I am just missing the source of this consensus.

I'm not one of those complaining about the "lack" of updates but:

- a lot of SublimeText users came from TextMate because TextMate stopped being developed actively

- the SublimeText developer was extremely active and then new developments just suddenly stopped so some users might feel like TextMate happening all over again

Maybe people are having issues with the current SublimeText, I wouldn't know, I'm a perfectly happy paying customer.

How can SublimeText use TextMate's code if TextMate's code is GPLv3?

So far as I know, it doesn't. What makes you think it does (or makes you think someone else thinks it does)?

I misread users as code. This is what I get for commenting before finishing my coffee.

Latest official release is 2.0.2, released 8 July 2013. 2.0.1 was released 14 July 2012.

3.x has been in beta since 29 January 2013 without a non-beta release.

I think this is what signals stalling for many users.

Yes, the assumption is that most of the users are using 3.x anyways because it's stable enough. BUT the official messaging promoting 2.0.2 as the "current release" is what shows that the release train is off the track.

There was no word from the "company" since they stopped doing releases so this is considered stalled and this was the major problem specially when you invest your money into something that it is suppose to be released.

This is not OSS software, people pay for the product.

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