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Wanted to try it, but no, I am not going to sign up for a super exclusive alpha that requires my email address.
by smarx007 10y ago
Wanted to try it, but no, I am not going to sign up for a super exclusive alpha that requires my email address.
- yanex 10y agoWell, it's your decision. By the way, if you ping me on Twitter (yanex_ru), I can send you the direct link to DMG via a DM.
- mmjaa 10y agoGoing to try to get it into Home-brew?
- yanex 10y agoHomebrew is not suited well for DMG package distribution (well, at least I don't know examples of such software). But you can install Marta just as any another macOS GUI software.
- mmjaa 10y agoHomebrew has the Caskroom, which would work: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask EDIT: details on how to add your own Cask for an app: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/development/adding_a_cask.md https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/de...
- yanex 10y agoThank you! I'll investigate it.
- smarx007 10y agoWell, I just read about powers of VK moderators on Habr and got more convinced that I need Little Snitch or something similar for my desktop apps for sure. Just if it was not clear: my email is public on many services. I just think that if you require my email to get the installer, how much logging/tracking code will you run once you're on my machine?
- yanex 10y agoI'm not affiliated with VK moderators in any manner. It's their own business. I know it's all about trust, but Marta doesn't have any tracking code, and never will. Trust is much more important that any statistics.
- _joel 10y agoAgreed, this complete puts me off too. Was initially interested but that evaporates with having to register.
- yanex 10y agoI could send you the direct link via Twitter DMs (yanex_ru) or via an email (me@yanex[at]org).
- balladeer 10y agoThat will again require a Twitter handle or Email. It's the same with me. If I am using a really early stage app and actually helping with testing it the last thing I would want to do is to pretty much sign up for it with my email unless I desperately need that app.
- aphextron 10y ago>I could send you the direct link via Twitter DMs (yanex_ru) or via an email (me@yanex[at]org). You need to freely provide the download. No one is going to give you their email address to download what should be an open source project.
- pvg 10y agoI get the email thing but "should be an open source project"?
- yanex 10y agoClosed alpha allows me to fix the critical bugs until Marta will be available freely. It's not about a subscription to some shitty weekly newspaper. I already got the valuable feedback from alpha users. But I completely understand you. I hope Marta will be available for everyone quite soon (maybe at the time of 0.2).
- Exuma 10y agohttps://www.guerrillamail.com/ https://www.guerrillamail.com/
- lm2s 10y agoSo... You're trusting it with all your filesystem but not your email?
- andreareina 10y agoI trust that the program I download right now won't do anything malicious with my files. I don't trust that the organization, or whoever it gets sold to in the future, won't try to monetize my email address, from now until forever.
- smarx007 10y agoNo, that's actually an indicator. If the DMG is email-walled, how much data the app will track once installed on my machine?
- yanex 10y agoTo be honest, the initial launch of Marta was an important lesson for me. I started with a closed alpha so I could fix the critical bugs until it will become open for everyone – not because I want everyone's emails to send some shitty spam. But lots of people disagreed with me, and I understand them. I changed some of my plans. Marta will become open much earlier, maybe even the next week. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- smarx007 10y agoThank you for a reply and best wishes to your project!