E-Mail Announce List for new releases of Utorrent

[churchi]

Hi all,

i was wondering if it would be an idea to have a release announce list so that we all know when to upgrade utorrent.

i am probably like most of you out there, in the fact that we leave utorrent running for many days with no need to restart, so we will never be prompted when a new release is out, only when we close then open up the program again.

just wondering if we could have a e-mail subscription list that notifies us when the new release is out or a beta is out.

just a thought,

thanks

[Firon]

Too much work... it'd be easier to just implement a check every X days (which I've suggested to ludde)...

[robojo]

Those that are playing the extreme edge of 'small footprint' would argue that it's a function easier satisfied through the forum without application 'bloat'. Personally I wouldn't mind the extra couple lines of code, just pointing out that many other more useful functions have been poo poo'd due to claims of 'bloat', and pointing out that other apps or methods could accomplish the same duty without adding code to uTorrent..

[churchi]

robojo, true, but it would keep us all upto date with the newest ver of the client.

you see so often there are lots of people out there thats are using clients that are months old or many releases behind.

while utorrent is in big dev stage it would be good to have this to check every few days if there is a new ver out and to ask to install it.

Firon, thats a much better idea. much easier as well.

should we add this as a feature request?

[Firon]

I already did on the bug tracker a few days ago.

[rafi]

Until this futuristic feature is implemented here are two ways to be auto-notified of updates:

1. Firon (...) will be so kind to open a special notification sticky thread. Any one that wants to be notified when a new version is out - will post there, and Firon promises (right ? ) to post whenever a new version is out...

2. Go to http://www.watchthatpage.com , register and put the uT download page link as one of the pages you want to be notified on changes... That's what I did...

[Firon]

the problem with that sticky thread idea is that every time anyone posts, everyone on the subscribe list would get mailed about it...

[Ultima]

@churchi: If µTorrent is working fine without you needing to restart it, I don't see why you need to update immediately after it's released.

[silverfire]

@Firon, if it's a locked thread, only moderators and admins can post replies in it ^o^

[Frostmourne]

Why not an RSS feed for the download page?

[Firon]

silverfire, his idea was to use thread subscriptions to notify people about an update. I don't think that would work since you can't subscribe without making a post, and everytime someone posted to get subscribed, EVERYONE would get an e-mail about it I believe...

[Animorc]

You can subscribe to a thread without posting in it. Just click on the Subscribe to this topic link.

[rafi]

As @Animorc said, I believe so too. Unless you really cannot subscribe to a "closed" thread ... But - we can give it a try...The mod can always delete the whole thread...

I would call it - "New uT versions notification test-thread " , close it, and just try it out ...

[silverfire]

Topic made.

[rafi]

OK, I subscribed to the new notification test-thread . Now let's wait and see ...

BTW - can you (=mod) tell how many people have subscribed to a thread ?

[Firon]

Shows how much I know about PunBB.

But no, we can't see how many people subscribed.

[rafi]

Topic made.

Try to notify on the new Beta - 1.2.3 ...

[rafi]

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Success!!! Firon, you can announce this newly invented method as official for this forum...

BTW - about this Beta - what about supporting Win98 ?!

[Firon]

For the moment, it's NT/2k/XP only. If the Microsoft Layer for Unicode is sufficient, it may get implemented to provide Unicode for 9x systems.

[rafi]

I hope Unicode will be supported for 9x systems as well, in a seamless manner (dynamically detected, no separate exe).

For the time being - does it mean that V 1.2.3 cannot be run under Win98 at all ?

[Firon]

Yeah, it will crash on startup on 9x systems.

If the MSLU works, then it will be the same exact build for both NT and 9x systems (but 9x users will need unicows.dll, either in their system32 or in the .exe's directory)

[ColdArmor]

Or just a newsletter for news. There are many scripts that you can jsut install to the site for it.

[rafi]

but this seems to work fine!

So I suggest to give this thread a proper name (w/o "test") , write inside it a good explanation, post a sticky-link to it (and even a subscription link) also in the announcement section and 'advertise' it inside the 1.2.3 / 1.2.2. / 1.2.1 posts...

[Firon]

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=2971

Done and done.

Advertised it in the 1.2.2 and 1.2.3-beta threads as well.