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Re:Why the Update Fever Is Bad by alvil on Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:36AM (#15728025)
Do fake update at semi-random time. Visualize it, eg. show them a dialog with progress bar and percentage.
Re:Why the Update Fever Is Bad by petre on Saturday November 18, 2017 @01:58AM (#15728078)
Thus wasting other people's time and productivity?

I'm using the Atom editor. It's kind of annoying how it pushes new updates every week. Previously used Subline Text 2 which just worked and did not have an update for years.

Re:Why the Update Fever Is Bad by sicher on Saturday November 18, 2017 @04:16AM (#15728361)
Sublime is a great example of users getting update fever. The forum is riddled with long ”is this software dead?” threads that pop up at regular intervals.
Re:Why the Update Fever Is Bad by empath75 on Saturday November 18, 2017 @08:18AM (#15728834)
Eventually it will be, if they stop updating it. Atom and visual studio code are overtaking it.