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The text in the alert says "You've reached the recording time limit" and "Once you register, the recording length will be unlimited." That requires more than ju

The text in the alert says "You've reached the recording time limit" and "Once you register, the recording length will be unlimited." That requires more than just changing the time variable. They went from "show this after X days" to "show this after X recorded minutes." It's a completely different metric that is reflected in the alert text.

sorrythanks 1y ago
From the article: > After 15 days, Audio Hijack will nag you to register at launch and will quit after 15 minutes. Before the bug: after 15 days, the 15 minutes alert would start to appear. --- From the article: > In version 1.6, we accidentally broke the intended 15 days of unrestricted usage. Instead, from day one, the app was limited to 15 minutes of recording. After the bug: the 15 minutes alert started to appear on day 1
lapcat 1y ago
You're still misunderstanding. Here's how it originally worked: (1) For the first 15 days, you could make recordings of any length. (2) After 15 days, you could use the app for only 15 minutes. (3) If you paid, then you could once again make recordings of any length. The bug was that "15 days" in (2) accidentally became 15 minutes, so that after only 15 minutes of trying the app, you were limited to using the app for only 15 minutes, which of course would happen the first time you used the app. Perhaps you're confused because there were two factors both with a value of 15.
- lylejantzi3rd 1y ago
  I think you're right. I think what confused me was the phrasing here: "After 15 days, Audio Hijack will nag you to register at launch and will quit after 15 minutes. Additionally, the recording feature will be disabled." "Instead, from day one, the app was limited to 15 minutes of recording." My brain didn't make the jump from "the app quits after 15 minutes" to "the app is limited to 15 minutes of recording."
  - f0rgot 1y ago
    I had the same interpretation you did, and the same confusion. Great minds (???) think alike?
- margalabargala 1y ago
  I think this is actually slightly incorrect. > The bug was that "15 days" in (2) accidentally became 15 minutes My understanding was that the 15 days became zero. If 15 days became 15 minutes, then depending on implementation it could run 30 minutes of first run? Or could be identical. Hard to know. But, my reading is that the 15 day timer broke, allowing the other timer to take over, not that days became minutes.
- fragmede 1y ago
  This is clear. This is not clear in the original blog post. I did not care too read the original blog post additional times to clarify or click the links in it to clarify. The people who wrote the blog post could learn a thing or two about technical writing, and writing for the Internet from this post. The end.

sorrythanks 1y ago

From the article: > After 15 days, Audio Hijack will nag you to register at launch and will quit after 15 minutes. Before the bug: after 15 days, the 15 minutes alert would start to appear. --- From the article: > In version 1.6, we accidentally broke the intended 15 days of unrestricted usage. Instead, from day one, the app was limited to 15 minutes of recording. After the bug: the 15 minutes alert started to appear on day 1

lapcat 1y ago

You're still misunderstanding. Here's how it originally worked: (1) For the first 15 days, you could make recordings of any length. (2) After 15 days, you could use the app for only 15 minutes. (3) If you paid, then you could once again make recordings of any length. The bug was that "15 days" in (2) accidentally became 15 minutes, so that after only 15 minutes of trying the app, you were limited to using the app for only 15 minutes, which of course would happen the first time you used the app. Perhaps you're confused because there were two factors both with a value of 15.

lylejantzi3rd 1y ago
I think you're right. I think what confused me was the phrasing here: "After 15 days, Audio Hijack will nag you to register at launch and will quit after 15 minutes. Additionally, the recording feature will be disabled." "Instead, from day one, the app was limited to 15 minutes of recording." My brain didn't make the jump from "the app quits after 15 minutes" to "the app is limited to 15 minutes of recording."
- f0rgot 1y ago
  I had the same interpretation you did, and the same confusion. Great minds (???) think alike?
margalabargala 1y ago
I think this is actually slightly incorrect. > The bug was that "15 days" in (2) accidentally became 15 minutes My understanding was that the 15 days became zero. If 15 days became 15 minutes, then depending on implementation it could run 30 minutes of first run? Or could be identical. Hard to know. But, my reading is that the 15 day timer broke, allowing the other timer to take over, not that days became minutes.
fragmede 1y ago
This is clear. This is not clear in the original blog post. I did not care too read the original blog post additional times to clarify or click the links in it to clarify. The people who wrote the blog post could learn a thing or two about technical writing, and writing for the Internet from this post. The end.