Comments on: It’s when I struggle to stay alive, or another Mendeley review

By: Cooptando» Mendeley, algumas impressões

Cooptando» Mendeley, algumas impressões — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:27:06 +0000

[...] para renderizar (entrar no foco). Não sei se isso ocorre em outros sistemas operacionais, mas parece que sim. Anotando no visualizador de PDFs [...]

By: Paulo Nuin

Paulo Nuin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:04:05 +0000

Joseph, Beta lost its actual meaning when Google started slapping the label on every service they created, leaving them at beta stage for years and years. So, if Mendeley is still beta, in the old meaning of Beta Software, why the heavy PR, the attempt to censor people, the social liaisons? It’s not an official software yet, according to you, so it’s not definite, not ready for prime time, so it should be released to a limited number of users, and then when it reaches the point that it can be a release candidate than it should be done.

And, if I’m not able to criticize an application just because is beta, should I only praise it? An application from a company that sent an email threatening me and demanding that I would be quiet.

By: Pietr Lodz

Pietr Lodz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:23:47 +0000

“I guess everyone at Mendeley Corp, or Inc, vote for BNP”

I guess it’s no coincidence that my spell-checker corrects Mendeley to Mengele…

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:39:53 +0000

I think you are being cruel for the sake of it. “Beta” means that the app has been released to users for software testing before its official release so they are hoping that you provide them with feedback about any problems you might have.
I think Mendeley is cool and there is no other app that does what Mendeley does so instead of being cynical, I think you could try to be a bit more constructive.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:51:58 +0000

Interesting review. Will you ever tell us how they tried to censor you?

By: Paulo Nuin

Paulo Nuin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:58:32 +0000

From attempted censorship to constructive feedback. I’m losing my mojo, or becoming too soft.

By: Jason Hoyt

Jason Hoyt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:52:31 +0000

Paulo. Thanks for the constructive feedback about beta v0.9. We should have an update 0.9.1 out later this week or next that fixes the bugs you mentioned and a few others.

For now, though inconvenient, we recommend importing articles in batches of 200 or fewer. Ideally, that won’t be necessary once we reach version 1.0 and take the beta label off.

As a MacBook user myself, I agree about the design. We’ll get there!

All the best,

Jason Hoyt, PhD
Research Director, Mendeley