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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kamrat" data-source="post: 19525" data-attributes="member: 12967">Sorry for crossposting. I just made the following post as a follow up on the bugs-thread but maybe it fits better here.I am aware of how delicately this has to be put. But let me give it a try.We all know that the MP-software has fantastic features and the programming team is incredibly good at coming up with new features and improving the software quickly. Not to mention how helpful they are in this forum to answer questions and fix bugs. I am deeply impressed by the team and I think most people active on this forum are too.All this been said the software has a really big problem when it comes to stability! I don’t think I’ve used less stable software since before Windows 95. And yes – I am aware that it needs a lot of tweaking and care and I’ve spent tens of hours installing patches, cvs:s and drivers to make it run as well as possible. I am also aware that this is not a release version.It is probably theoretically possible to make a dedicated system reasonably stable for a while if you know exactly how to configure it. But as soon as there is a driver update, or a windows-patch or new release of MP hell starts all over again.I too have used Showshifter. I did not particularly like it but at least it was stable. I once left it running in the taskbar for five weeks while on vacation recording 10-15 shows. I would not trust MP to do this.I know that the team claims that stability is a high priority but why not give us a stable 0.1.4.0 with all the fixes put into the CVS:s after 0.1.3.0 before starting to do prereleases of 0.2.0.0?Putting a halt on feature development for a couple of months and focusing on ironing out bugs would help the user base more than anything else. This would probably greatly increase the following and help give the team better support in continuing to develop the software.I understand that it must be tempting for the developers to move on and give the software more features and after working with the software for so long their systems are probably perfectly tweaked and they probably do a lot of workarounds without even thinking of it. But for new users – even very experienced computer users – MP can easily be a nightmare.Please don’t flame me for this. I have the deepest respect for the MP-team and maybe I just don’t know enough about software development to grasp the difficulties involved in creating bug free software. But this lovehate for MP has been growing inside me for a while and I just had to let it out. It’s like having a best friend with all the qualities you’d ask for in a best friend except he never turns up on time and sometimes just walks away on you in the middle of an interesting conversation.I have noticed that as soon as someone points out that they have a stability problem on the forum he is pointed towards all kinds of downloads and updates. Could we please not make this thread about solving specific problems and instead have a discussion on the stability problems in general?What do you all think?? Is anyone experiencing a rock solid setup of MP at the moment?</blockquote>

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