Nicolas Giard: neglect V2 long enough and people are going to move to other alternatives. This is an issue , in the only version we have available.

Chomper: I'm sorry, are you a dev working for absolutely free, exclusively on his spare time, on an open source project? If you want something "now", because you're somehow entitled to it, then do feel free to use an alternative or paid product / service. This ain't it.

Nicolas Giard: I am in fact, my project has both a software and hardware component which I develop solo in my spare time. That's not the point. Nor have I said "I want this now". My point is that V2 is missing essential functionality, and all suggestions are being implemented in a V3 product that seemingly never sees the light of day. Just look at all the "Awaiting V3" tags. How many years has it been?

I've never understood the victim mentality of many open-source developers. When I put my product "out there", I'm fully aware that I'm going to have to continue developing it based on feedback from my users. My users entitled to that, that's the role I've taken on my developing this product. I'm not going to take their feedback and implement it in a different product they don't have access to. That just asking for my users to leave. Especially if I'm asking for donations.

You're surely not oblivious to the fact that people are going to get frustrated when basic functionality, voted on by hundreds of people, basically never happens?

Chomper: That's a lot of nonsense. What you consider "essential" is simply not important for other users. Having highlighted text in search results is a nice to have, not an essential feature. It doesn't prevent you from using the app effectively in the slightest. When some people complain that their feature is the most important thing in the world, when it's completely unimportant to most users, it gets irritating.

You seem to imply that v3 is a different product, when it's an update to the exact same app. Some highly requested features (like multi-sites and notifications) are simply not possible with the current v2 architecture, hence the major v3 update to address these core shortcomings. I can't work on adding new features to v2 while also somehow having time to work on v3. It just doesn't make any sense. By putting time on v2, v3 would get delayed even further and more people would complain. Therefore, v2 is being maintained for security / breaking bugs while new features are added to v3 (which is public, accessible to anyone, with instructions on how to run it, unlike what you said which is plain wrong).

I completely disagree with how you think open source development works. Users are not entitled to anything. They can submit feedback and contribute PRs to help but to expect the maintainer to address all your requests and work on what decided was important is simply wrong. I work on what is best for the project as a whole, even if that might frustrate some users waiting on a particular feature. As for donations, they are a way to say thank you, not an expectation of any sort from the maintainer.

Is it taking a long time? Yes. But that's how it is, because in the end, it will result in a better product.