I am not saying to shut up, if you feel disappointed or annoyed with the current version of TM or the way V2.0 is being developed. However, it’s just your complaints. So, spare your numbered advises. If you know how to run a business or how to develop a better editor, no one stops you from doing so.

It is just so pointless to tell a smart guy how to be clever. In case you did not realize, its Allans life, not yours (or mine for that matter).

You cite the threat of copying by your competition as a reason for withholding details on TM2. If you had managed your prior success properly, you wouldn’t have any competition.

TM1, though innovative and useful, had numerous shortcomings (which vocal users like myself had been raising for months. You blew us off because we didn’t fit your narrow-minded use case. You said our expectations for Mac-like text selection were irrelevant to you, because you don’t use a mouse much when editing. You let numerous other known problems, like the Find-and-Replace lag, the arcane and inconsistent shortcut keys, and numerous others (you have a list of 20 big problems elsewhere on this site) go unfixed. You neglected to learn much of anything about Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, a result of decades of research and available to anyone for free, even after winning an Apple Design Award (by some lucky miracle that your text editor happened to debut with the rise of Rails development on the Mac.

You could have had TM2 released already, and probably more perfectly than you envision it even today. You should have:

1. Realized that, instead of belittling the users who cared to send you feedback, this feedback represented additional REVENUE OPPORTUNITY which could fuel development of the other features that you cared about.
2. Made peace with yourself to loosen your absolute grip over the app code and hire additional developers much sooner. You waited far too long to hire help, and it appears that you are still understaffed.
3. Drawn up a business plan for TM2, surveying the users to find and rank the major pain points and discover how much they would pay for an upgrade to address the issues. As you’ve seen in the above comments, Mac people are not open-source freetard zealots. We happily pay a premium for our computers, because we like to have the best. We’d happily pay an upgrade fee for you to fix the problems with TM1. Why you chose not to charge for TM2 is completely beyond my understanding. But then again, so was your offer to refund my money three years ago when I complained about your buggy text selection algorithm. It seems you’d rather us shut up and keep our money than help you and PAY you to make a better product.
4. Not taken multiple months off of development to go skiing. A week or two would have been justified and even well-earned, by your hiatus for most of Winter 2007 was foolish and irresponsible. Not that you’ve released much of anything since you came back. You created a movement and then seemingly walked away.
5. If necessary, found investors to finance your development of TM2. Rumor has it that you had quite a bit on TM1, which no one would have begrudged you back then. But instead of reinvesting it, you went on vacation and left us hanging. If you needed more money to feel secure hiring more full-time developers, then you should have gone to an angel investor back in early 2007, when financing was still easy and you had the momentum and awards and fanatical support of your users. Anyone would invest in that. You squandered a huge opportunity there, because you wouldn’t give up your absolute control.

You may not care about the business side or the rewards of fast growth, but you don’t seem to care about us users either. We could have had TM2 in 2007. Who knows what you might have released this year as TM4. Instead, we get another vaporware announcement that it’s coming, with no screenshots, no list of new features, in fact, no new specs of any kind. To top it off, an admission that “much of the front-end still needs work,” when the front-end was where all the critical shortcomings were in TM1. You want us to think you’re turning this boat around, but it’s like you haven’t learned anything at all.

For the sake of the users, start running this like a real business, so you can ship the damn software, and make it right for the USERS. If all you care about is yourself, then you and TextMate deserve to become irrelevant as your competition leapfrogs you and eats your lunch.

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When I publish ⌃+⌘+P the post gets published instead of being a Draft. Anybody else have similiar issues?