How will Logos make users aware of new features?
One of the stated reasons for the swap to a subscription service is that it allows Logos to continuously release new features and improvements as soon as they are built, rather than holding them back. Cool! My question is, has it been mentioned how Logos will make it's users aware of these new features when they are rolled out? I worry that I will miss them if I don't happen to see an announcement on the forum or check the release notes.
Current MDiv student at Trinity Theological College - Perth, Western Australia
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No, that hasn't been mentioned. But ...
- They did subscription early access before, and the crazy subscribers thought there'd be .... new features. That created short-term this and that, instead of concentrating on major features taking much longer. I assume the key this time, is to also include fixing design flaws as 'features' for the demanding subscribers.
- Communicating 'new' has been a Faithlife weakness for literally decades. A forum post and barely any information is the guiding policy. It's the 'user's responsibility to spot great changes. Joking.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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No, that hasn't been mentioned. But ...
- They did subscription early access before, and the crazy subscribers thought there'd be .... new features. That created short-term this and that, instead of concentrating on major features taking much longer. I assume the key this time, is to also include fixing design flaws as 'features' for the demanding subscribers.
- Communicating 'new' has been a Faithlife weakness for literally decades. A forum post and barely any information is the guiding policy. It's the 'user's responsibility to spot great changes. Joking.
Don't worry.... It will all be available to subscribers... If not now.... Eventually LOL
Logos 10 - OpenSuse Tumbleweed, Windows 11, Android 15 & Android 14
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has it been mentioned how Logos will make it's users aware of these new features when they are rolled out? I worry that I will miss them if I don't happen to see an announcement on the forum or check the release notes.
You mention the traditional communication, but why not become a Beta tester and automatically rollover to a beta version when one is released? Alternatively, just look at the release notes in the Desktop Beta Forum and you will read about new features before they are released.
Dave
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You mention the traditional communication, but why not become a Beta tester and automatically rollover to a beta version when one is released? Alternatively, just look at the release notes in the Desktop Beta Forum and you will read about new features before they are released.
Yeah, those are potential options. And I will try to keep up to date as much as I can with the forums for example. But this stuff moves quickly sometimes, and especially on the forums it's easy to miss. But my concern is not primarily with myself, but with the majority of users who aren't on the forums.
With the cyclic two year release, it's relativity easy to delineate between the features of one version and another. Logos went to huge effort to showcase the new features, and the website still has a 'What's new in Logos 10' page. But as we transition away from the cyclic pattern to continuous release with the subscription model, how will Logos let us know when new/significant upgrades or features are added? I want to use what I'm paying for, but if I don't know it's there...!
Current MDiv student at Trinity Theological College - Perth, Western Australia
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Last week Thursday (Apr 11) they had the first webinar of what is supposed to be regular updates on new features; these webinars will air about every 6 weeks, IIRC - Discover More with Logos: Feature Updates. I don't know if the replay link will work for persons who did not register for the webinar.
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I don't know if the replay link will work for persons who did not register for the webinar.
If I recall correctly, I had not registered for the webinar (in fact I did not know about it), but when I tried to follow the link for the webinar, that page then asked me (allowed me) to register at that point to watch.
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Last week Thursday (Apr 11) they had the first webinar of what is supposed to be regular updates on new features; these webinars will air about every 6 weeks, IIRC - Discover More with Logos: Feature Updates. I don't know if the replay link will work for persons who did not register for the webinar.
Thanks for that link. I watched the replay and was wondering if the forthcoming new features in Logos Pro are about "sermons" as well or if they cover more "bible study".
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