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Hi Fv player team, I really love your plugin and recommend it to everyone, really! But something that I found very annoying, is the number of updates/month you are issuing. Usually the most updates, the most secure, trusty and working I found the plugin.. But the thing is that I’m managing many websites, meaning hundreds of plugins to keep up to date etc. FV Player + FV Player Pro have updates every week, and for the past 30 days, that was 23 updates total : meaning 5 updates per week! Among the hundreds of plugin I manage everyday, none has as much updates per week or per month than yours.. and many times your updates are for very specific fixes or add-ons (which I am grateful for don’t get me wrong). I just wanted to ask if you could consider issuing beta versions on the forum for users facing problems that need immediate fix, and therefore issuing stable versions less regularly, like any major WP plugin? Cause to me you are a top-grade plugin (and support team!). Thanks for considering! Best wishes, Martin
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Hi Martin,
I’m sorry that the updates cause you trouble. We had to release a couple of fixes and also tweaks suggested by other users, plus some new features like Sticky Video (check changelogs of FV Player and FV Player Pro for more information), so the number of updates was a bit higher than usual.
We are however labeling beta features and updates in the FV Player Pro changelog, so you can skip those if you are using the Release version of our plugin.
Thanks,
Eduard
Hi Evelina,
Thanks for sharing this feedback. It means a lot to me (I hate annoying plugins).
Some suggestions:
1. Don’t make those updates (we ourselves created a plugin to manage and restrain WordPress updates called BusinessPress). Not every FV Player update even on Beta is absolutely necessary.
2. If you don’t need the cutting edge features, please move to stable. We keep stable as written on the box, stable.When we’ve moved to Flowplayer Core 7 before Christmas, the updates will slow down a bit but Beta will remain very active.
FV Player is one of the few plugins in the entire WordPress universe which has both beta and release versions together so you don’t have to waste your time manually installing and uninstalling versions (you can switch between them with just a dropdown).
What we will not ever move to again though is manually distributing specific versions outside of the upgrade cycle. That is a nightmare for both the developers and the users. I can’t believe anybody develops software that way. We should publicize our innovation more.
Thanks again for the feedback though! I hope the advice above will help you bring the update situation under control.
Amitiés, Alec
Hi Evelina,
It turns out that Martin and I had our signals crossed here a bit. The stable release is getting all update notifications for the beta release. Which it shouldn’t do. You should have to enable beta to get beta update notifications.
We’ll fix that in the next release tomorrow so all those update notifications will stop. In any case, this WordPress insanity that every living human has to install every update in real time is exactly that – insanity and has nothing to do with the history of software. The right approach is:
1. install security updates immediately
2. upgrade feature releases on a needs basisSo you can safely ignore releases until Martin posts here that the new release/beta notification system is inside the plugin.
Thanks for your patience and thank you again for reporting the issue. You’ve helped everyone.
Amitiés, Alec
