Two Savory Subscription Meditations
1. Look at the bright side! New Resource packages should be cheaper because they won't include all those feature expansions. Cross your fingers, toes, and ears--hoping,
2. Uh-oh. New updates every 6 weeks! In other words half-baked "improvements" for which I pay and then I have a sermon next Sunday and something is only quarter-baked. Can I buy a subscription to get all those new features and then shut it off? But when i gasp and update manually, what about other unknown half-baked stuff in the pudding?
I use Photoshop beta, but I keep the original just in case. Will that be possible with Logos Subscription updates? Or can I roll back in a hurry? But I don't want to have to do that in a hurry. I hope someone out there is thinking about this.
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GaoLu said:
1. Look at the bright side! New Resource packages should be cheaper because they won't include all those feature expansions. Cross your fingers, toes, and ears--hoping,
The resources necessary to run the features have usually been packaged with the features rather than the resources. I wouldn't expect a very noticeable change.
GaoLu said:2. Uh-oh. New updates every 6 weeks! In other words half-baked "improvements" for which I pay and then I have a sermon next Sunday and something is only quarter-baked. Can I buy a subscription to get all those new features and then shut it off? But when i gasp and update manually, what about other unknown half-baked stuff in the pudding?
You are already getting updates every 6 weeks. The question is how they will handle modifications/additions that require longer beta testing. Will they go through a private testing period or will they simply sit in public betas for more than one cycle. Will they use the web app for proof of concept testing? What they won't be doing, in theory, is coding functions then putting them on hold until the next major release goes into private beta testing. There is nothing to indicate any change to the roll-back procedure i.e. have a backup plan to handle your needs when a beta is unusable.
But there should be a third bright side - within a year of going to subscriptions, the number of repetitive feedback threads should decrease or at least stabilize. Shall we start a pool predicting what the next hot topic will be?
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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A Logos Dating Site?
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GaoLu said:
Uh-oh. New updates every 6 weeks! In other words half-baked "improvements" for which I pay and then I have a sermon next Sunday and something is only quarter-baked.
Every 7 weeks as Faithlife insert an extra week for internal alpha testing. But the initial code and test phase can take considerably longer, so the issue to which you refer is the decision to put it into alpha testing then beta testing.
My example of rushing into beta is the Add Versions function of Bible Search which took three betas to get bug-free.
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Check beneath the actual announcement - it's still a 6 week cycle ATTN: Update to Beta 1 Releases - Logos Forums
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
Check beneath the actual announcement - it's still a 6 week cycle ATTN: Update to Beta 1 Releases - Logos Forums
Ahhhh, yes!
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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Logos has been wonderfully bomb free for awhile. I consider their QA pretty good. The only issue I've experienced has been some minor buginess in mobile. Keep up the good work.
The mind of man is the mill of God, not to grind chaff, but wheat. Thomas Manton | Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. Richard Baxter
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mab said:
Logos has been wonderfully bomb free for awhile. I consider their QA pretty good. The only issue I've experienced has been some minor buginess in mobile. Keep up the good work.
I don't understand the relevance of your remark to my post of "Ahhhh, yes!"?
But I disagree with the assertion as their metadata in a May release of additional books for Logos Pro was dismal:
Dave
===Windows 11 & Android 13
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GaoLu said:
1. Look at the bright side! New Resource packages should be cheaper because they won't include all those feature expansions. Cross your fingers, toes, and ears--hoping,
This is not new we have been able to buy libraries without the feature sets for some time now.
What would be great is as someone interested in original languages and features for bible study if I could get these features without them being lumped on top of sermon features which I have absolutely no interest as I am not a preacher but up until now have to take sermon features to get all the other features that interest me.
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Simon’s Brother said:
What would be great is as someone interested in original languages and features for bible study if I could get these features without them being lumped on top of sermon features which I have absolutely no interest as I am not a preacher but up until now have to take sermon features to get all the other features that interest me.
Exactly. What i said before elsewhere, or intended to say if I didn't, was that a pick list would be nice. Check the boxes of what you want. Pay for that--however: bucks up front or subscription if warranted. Dynamic pricing, of course.
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