Someone made a pretty imo unfairly negative post about Blorp:

I just wanted to take a moment to than you all for your amazing support. I feel very lucky that I’ve made it over a year with very little negativity from my users. Everyone is overwhelmingly polite and patient.

If you have the time, I would love some comments on that post from real users. Even if the comment is politely critical of my app.

There are still many people who haven’t heard of “Blorp” and I would hate for them to get a bad first impression.

I should probably not engage with the haters. Clearly I need a marketing person lol. Maybe I’ll delete this.

Edit: my original reason for making this post was kinda dumb, but I really appreciate all the support in the comments so I don’t delete it

  • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    I used Blorp for a while and found you mostly to be a very responsive developer. I stopped using Blorp because I found myself trying to get you to turn it into Mlem 2.0.

    I had to unblock unpopular opinion to see the thread you linked. His first criticism, about long pressing to save an image is an issue I brought up with you quite some time ago. I do not see an issue for it, maybe it is not something I opened an issue for, but discussed it with you. You said saving images was done through the share menu or something. I still think there should be an option to long press to save.

    Do I like Blorp? Yes I do. And I think you are doing a good job with it. And I will continue to use it on Mac.

    Keep on keeping on man.

    Edit: thinking about the past discussion regarding saving images, it was in relation to the Mac app. So it likely was about right clicking to save, not long pressing.

    • Mose13@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      I agree with you that long pressing does make sense. I think I actually had it working at some point, but I removed it for some reason. I wanna say it was because it was unintentionally triggering the share menu while you were scrolling the feed.

      Anyway, it is a good idea. I’ll see if I can add it without causing any other issues. It was truly just the tone of the post I was frustrated with, not the actual feedback given.

      I appreciate your feedback here!

      • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I agree the tone was harsh in that post, which is why I chose to reply here, and not there. Some of the replies are pretty harsh too.

        As I said I stopped using Blorp because I was trying to change it into something that already existed.

      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I like the share menu for downloading photos, but sometimes it fails to download .webp images. My workaround for that is to “share” it to the material files app which can save them. This usually works but sometimes it fails as well. Gives me error messages.

        I forget if I made a GitHub issue, but does that sound familiar?

    • Eldaroth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Yeah saving an image is not as “intuitive” as most people are used to otherwise with current UX patterns.

      And I don’t find anything wrong with pointing that out, that’s all good and helps improve the app in the long run. As lomg as its done politely and in a constructive way like you just did.

      I just hate it if people feel like they have to shit on something just because it doesn’t do 100% what they would like it to. Nonetheless for a product they can use for free and someone put hard work into it, most likely in their spare time.

      • Mose13@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        Yes, 100%! I want to continue to make my app more intuitive, but kinda like you said, it’s frustrating when I fix 5 things and the only thing people see is the 1 thing missing. But that’s the name of the game. The goal is to try and eventually fix everything.