Fed up with Versiontracker

[serpicolugnut]

Let me preface what I'm about to say with this: I fully appreciate the owner of a site to make money off his/her endeavours. If a site can charge "admission" and survive on it, power to them...

Now on to my rant...

WTF is up with the guys running Versiontracker? I mean, it seems like every week they tweak their site to put more and more roadblocks in the way of users. Of course, if you buy a VT Pro membership, you get unfettered access. I can appreciate that. But the recent changes have just gotten my blood boiling to the point that I've now removed VT from my bookmarks, and will use Macupdate.com solely from here on out.

Am I the only one who's become completely frustrated with VT to the point of shunning it from here on out?

Macupdate reminds me alot of what VT was before it started searching for an income model. Items are listed clearly, and a single click can start the download. My only beef is that many developers still opt to post on VT first, so Macupdate sometimes lags behind VT 30 minutes or so. But that seems to be changing, as I guess more and more developers are getting peeved with VT too.

[kainjow]

Yeah I'm getting frustrated with them now too. VT has some options that MacUpdate doesn't have, but MacUpdate is catching on. VT is down now too, so I can't even check stuff out. I think VT is going out of business too. And their site just keeps getting worse and worse in every aspect.

[macosXrumors]

Last year I had written a mail to VT about that, they answered me that they wanted to make it viable. I answered them by joining all the .gif/.jpg files of the ads they have in one page only.

I also noticed that now they hide the links to the software maker's site so that people get dependent on VT.

I think the only solution is to visit another site like MacUpdate. As even when you mail VT about their mess of banners they don't seem to understand.

[toast]

Use this:

javascript:q=prompt(%22Search%20Version%20Tracker:%22,%22%22);if(q)location.href='http://www.versiontracker.com/mp/new_search.m%5C?%20productDB=mac&mode=Quick&OS_Filter=MacOSX&search='+escape(q);

Create a bookmark and paste the script in the location field.

This way you'll find exactly what you need on VT without even loading their bloated index page.

[Dime5150]

yea versiontracker is pissing me off too. There recent redesign was garbage. People went stark raving mad. Mac Update is going to take over soon.

I am not going to pay someone for "links".

[RPS]

Exactly the same here.

[twister]

Am i the only one who doesn't see any issues? Seems to be pretty much the same as before only with a few new features that don't seem to get in my way. I find everything just as easily as before.

[Shifting]

it's not an issue to me either. IMO, VT has always been a bit of a pain to deal with...but it's no big deal. i have no problem finding & downloading what i'm looking for there, so i have no reason to complain.