After months of coding, debugging, refining and performance-tuning, FeedDemon 2.0 is finally done. The code has been frozen, the final install has been built, the documentation has been written, and we're all set to go live with it. The download will be posted soon, and I'll announce it here once it's available.
At this point I feel like I should blog a post-mortem of the new version, but the truth is I'm too pooped to do it - all I want to do right now is shut off my brain for a while and then take a veerrrryyy long nap!
Before I do that, though, I first want to give my thanks to everyone who helped out during the beta. This has been the longest beta cycle I've been involved in, yet through it all we've received an incredible amount of feedback that has helped make FeedDemon 2.0 a far better product than it would've been. And I also have to thank our excellent support team for dealing with the firehose of feedback that results from an open (public) beta. I believe FeedDemon 2.0 is the best work I've ever done, and I know it would not have been possible had I been the only one handling support.
And now, about that nap...zzz...
How about release English.fdlang2 before FD2.0 Final released? So that many other language files may released at the same time.
Posted by: Jedi | Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 08:57 PM
Nick
Youz da bomb! Can't wait to get my hands on it. Now, about version 3....
Cheers, Julisn
Posted by: Julian M Bucknall | Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 11:39 PM
Congratulations!
Just downloaded the latest (.19) and love it - can't get through my day without it.
Thanks again for all your hard work!
Posted by: jim | Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 11:51 PM
Thank you Nick for giving us such a great piece of software!
Posted by: critter42 | Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 11:55 PM
Cheers!
Posted by: Killer Possum | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 12:16 AM
Well done Nick :)
Posted by: Morgan | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 02:35 AM
Congratulations Nick :)
Other commitments have meant I couldn't keep up with the forum posts over the last 3-4 weeks, sorry I couldn't help more but I'm glad I was involved in the early alpha at least.
Posted by: Andrew Herron | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 02:48 AM
Congratulations! An I still say that FD is the best piece of software I have bought.
Well done :)
Posted by: Podz | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:07 AM
Great work Nick!
Posted by: Dave Briggs | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 06:06 AM
Great news! Now on to/back to TS 4!!!!!
Posted by: Thom Rollings | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 09:31 AM
Excellent. Sleep well...
Posted by: Alex Barnett | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 11:52 AM
I support Thom about TopStyle 4 (enjoying the new feeddemon release) :)
Posted by: gp | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 12:03 PM
Jedi: I'm afraid we decided to ship the initial 2.0 without localized FDLANGs, but if you create a translation just let me know and I'll certainly link to you from here.
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:41 PM
Andrew: you certainly have nothing to be sorry for - your help during the betas was really great and very much appreciated!
Posted by: Nick Bradbury | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 04:42 PM
Thanks for adding the 'Last 24 hours' filter alongside 'Today' and 'Yesterday'. It's really useful.
Posted by: James | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 05:14 PM
Not many people can release "beta" software that has been stable and usable day-to-day since the first public release. That alone speaks volumes about Nick and his dedication to great software.
Heck I've been a fan since Homesite!
Posted by: Tris Hussey | Monday, March 27, 2006 at 11:03 PM
Chinese language files for FeedDemon 2.0.0.20 lives at http://jedi.org/p4/l10n/FeedDemon/2.0.0.20/
But, again, the translator credit and subscription expiring information overlap in "About" screen.
Any transtion issue please reply directly to me, thanks.
Posted by: Jedi | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 01:22 PM