If the upgrade was $10 cheaper, it would be a no brainer. That little $10 seems to hit a physiological barrier.
It would be a simple yes if it allows you to reduce the huge footprint it has on the screen. Most of my time working on sites I’m complaining to myself how absurd it is that it takes up so much real estate when I need other files open to drag in things or copy/paste.
AND, contrary to what was said, I almost always just export changes. 10 minutes to export the whole side or 30 seconds to update a page.
Not if it was anything like the problems we had in 6. 5 was as solid as a rock. 6 was fraught with issues and upgrades a-go-go. As long as the problems are sort out and we don’t treated like guinea pigs!
I have to be honest and say no. Too many problems with the 6 release.
I’ll probably wait until it either appears in a bundle, or plugins or stack stop supporting v6. The mentioned features don’t excite me I’m afraid, sorry.
Nope, upgrade price IMO doesn’t justify the new features and I’m sure it will be ridiculously buggy. Like @Bazza I’ll wait till it appears in a bundle.
Will definitely upgrade. New Features very worthwhile to me. Upgrade Price is fine. Full Price is fine too for that matter –– because I would like to install on my laptop as well as my main work station.
The upgrade to v6 was very problematic so I won’t be in the very first wave of upgraders –– better to be a settler than a pioneer. I have an idea though that there were lessons learned during the last upgrade cycle and that the v7 upgrade to process will be smoother. Hope springs eternal in the hearts of man
I’ve been with Rapidweaver since version 5 and will definitely be upgrading. However I will hold off upgrading to 7 until it’s been out a few months.
I love using Rapidweaver 6 only regret is that I upgraded at the earliest opportunity and ran into publishing issues (which were later solved) so I’ll be more cautious this time around.
I wish I could say yes, but after 10 years of fighting with RW, since V3.2 or something like that, and all the upgrades meantime, I have had about enough frustration. I know I am not technical enough and I know my own shortcomings, but honestly, and I am definitely a power user on my Mac, I could take every crash, including all the bombs back on OS 6 and 7 on every Mac I’ve ever had since 1997 and they would not add up to the crashes and export problems I have had in RW in the 10 years. I worked as a tech in a school district for 10 years too, front line lab, desktop, network troubleshooting, and honestly, I love my websites and I love a challenge, but I’ve had my fill with RW. Anyone want to buy my business? I’ve got a bit of an income from it, which I hate to lose, but I am getting too old and cranky for this.
Probably not immediately unless the constant and quirky FTP issues are resolved.
Frequent updates to my sites all have the same issues. I can do a number publishings without a problem then suddenly FTP spits the dummy and says it can’t connect even though ocasionally it has uploaded several files. If I immediately clicking the publish button nearly always results in a successful publishing.
If I export the site then upload using my FTP client I NEVER get the inconsistencies I get with RW.
no way. You released RW 6 without any essential new features telling you had to do it because of sandboxing and there will be upgrades and improvements in each 6.x release. The early version of RW6 were a mess and you only did bugfixing in 6.x.
And now you ask again money for a version 7 and you ask for feature requests in a different post.
Fullfill all the feature requests that have been there for years in the forum. But no you rather upgrade to a new forum, delete all previous posts. I also send a document to Nik last year that contained a lot of feature requests and I have now clue if it ended up in the recycle bin.
For me this is completely unfair and it looks to me you want to make quick money instead of having a satisfied customer base for the coming years.
I think I understand your frustration, essential is subjective however. Perhaps not all your wish list items were addressed, perhaps they were not possible to address, As far as Sandboxing goes, that is the truth, Apple’s policy change not RMS’s.
Looking back through the release notes for 6.x, there were a bunch of features added and fixed all through it’s life cycle. Many many hours put into fixing issues as they arose and became aware of. IMHO, I think it was a great release cycle considering there were few beta testers.
RW7 has many more beta testers (80+ I think @dan said) and more issues resolved prior to launch. As stated in their Podcast, there are new features, many bug fixes and they are trying to make this as close to a bug free launch as possible based on user feedback from beta testers. Like any product thought, beta testers can’t find everything as they don’t cover all use cases, the more beta testers, the better the end product…
I invite you to participate in the beta program by contacting dan@realmacsoftware.com and having a go with it yourself to see everything that changed, was added, etc… and report issues found, if any. Launch date is coming… soon…
