@Malstroem-Phi said in Too frequent updates are disruptive:
Side notes I had to agree to this in order to post something (which I did not want to):
Our Logging-in FAQ has more on that…
Essentially, the “personal information” it collects was what is sufficient to create your account, defaulting to whatever you’ve put in your Google or GitHub name/email/avatar fields, after which you can edit what is shown.
For the email, there has not been an “update” email sent to the entire userbase in the 9 years I’ve had an account here. For the the notification emails, they are 100% under your control settings – there’s a whole page in your settings devoted to setting your individual preferences, and you can turn off all those emails you want. When we were offering a digest, you could also disable it on the same page, but we turned off digests recently because it was causing too many server errors and causing our email server to be blacklisted as spam.
And most of my last paragraph was essentially explained in the message you read.
So I am confused why you were worried enough to proclaim:
I’ll probably delete the account after a while if it turns out emails are too frequent.
The message you quoted was pretty clear that they wouldn’t be frequent unless you set them to be, and was quite explicit that you could turn off notifications that you didn’t want. I am not sure why this message set off your “worry” reflex.
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Back to the main content:
I think that if the update were a matter of a single click with a very quick restart,
The updater now has the one-click silent update feature, so going forward, the update process should be fairly painless – or at least, have fewer clicks than it used to require. (Though I agree, it asks at an inconvenient time for some – many would want to wait for the update until they are done with the app, rather than immediately after it was launched; the developer has not seemed willing to change the timing of it.)
in a perfect world I would recommend a granular notification system where you can choose what can of update you want to know about, for instance you could choose to skip small fix about features you never use but be notified for security updates or other more critical stuff.
Notepad++ has never really distinguinguished different types of releases. All releases include minor bugfixes, new features, and any needed security fixes. So every release would fall under all the categories (or at least two of the three – security fixes are likely not as frequently needed, depending on your definition of “security fixes”).
And in case you didn’t look at the “read this post first” or the FAQ it points you to – this forum is the Community of fellow Notepad++ users, so none of us here have the decision making power for how Notepad++ implements updates.
