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The only person suggesting it is dead is you..

More proof that CS is a dead duck    

It's a product that is still for sale, according to the Altium website.

If you want a newer release, check the dates on the release notes. It is clear that releases are infrequent. If you purchased without checking the release notes, that's a risk for any product, if you expect more frequent releases.

if you checked the release notes and purchased anyway, then I think you're getting what you expected?

I'm curious as to why you seem eager to defend Altium when they more than clearly dropped the ball with circuit studio. I also noticed in another forum post, where you were helping someone with licensing issues (which was nice of you), and you mentioned that you don't even use circuit studio... So, no, he's not the only one suggesting CS is dead, or on life support, or whatever - many people are frustrated with the state of things, including myself.

Everyone in the community has been been extremely patient with Altium. As of several months ago, we had one official person who posted on this forum who was a direct voice for Altium, and would help people, respond to emails, discuss work around for bugs, etc. That person was liquidated, and made a forum post saying goodbye to the community. Since then, no one has taken his place. If you go back in the last 3-4 months worth of posts, it's been forum users helping other users with problems. The fact that the community has had to become more or less self sufficient is inexcusable for a paid product from a major competitor in the CAD market. This is regardless of how much it costs, a paid product is a paid product, and promises were made in exchange for money. Furthermore, the fact that the company offers a yearly maintenance plan, and has released few and pitifully lightweight updates is nothing short of insulting to anyone who's paid for their product. There is no defending this behavior, period.

Some of us have been with circuit studio since very early on, and it wasn't this bad at first. Admittedly, it wasn't great to begin with, but at the very least the customer base was promised more frequent updates, with more substantive content. As it stands now, there are still plenty of bugs that people have been reporting for over a year. Worse yet, because no one seems to be monitoring the situation with circuit studio, they've allowed their bug reporting server to go down. This means you can't even report bugs, when they happen, and they do happen frequently.

kylew  wrote:

 

I'm curious as to why you seem eager to defend Altium

Sorry, you've got it completely wrong. I'm uninterested in using _any_ Altium software even if it was free!

Circuit Studio is pretty much community-supported from what I've seen. I didn't need to have used Circuit Studio to offer some help to that user on the thread that you mention.

I'm just speaking my mind - if the history of updates is so infrequent, why will it change now?