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Re:Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote by donalm on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:03PM (#5111024)
I hope this results in them improving Simplenote. I find it pretty buggy.
Re:Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote by kondro on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:07PM (#5112585)
Agreed. I experienced a big. Bug the other day that appeared like it deleted all my notes on my iPad and online and this caused me to finally bite-the-bullet and move my notes to Evernote from my offline iPhone for fear of never being able to access them again.

Was a painful upgrade experience (and the bug resolved itself in 24 hours), but I've suffered similar sync bugs over my time with Simplenote over the past 2 years and I didn't feel safe with the service anymore.

Re:Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote by cloudmike on Thursday January 24, 2013 @06:31PM (#5112953)
We've had a few growing pains, particularly with 3rd-party apps. We're working with developers to move them to our latest API. If you ever encounter problems, you can email us at [email protected] and we'll do our best to help you out.
Re:Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote by wib on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:10PM (#5111067)
Agreed, lots of glitches that kept me from shelling out for the paid service. I gave it up and went back to Dropbox for OSX <-> Android syncing.

At least the buyer isn't talking about shutting it down.

Re:Automattic Buys Simperium (YC S10), Maker of Simplenote by timfletcher on Thursday January 24, 2013 @05:32PM (#5112718)
Sadly, I too found it unusably buggy. I reported a number of them. Some were fixed, some weren't. Their support response times were great and I really hoped they could get it working smoothly but after a year I was still having issues and it was not to be. Shame because I loved the simplicity.