Donate ad is too distracting

[expired user #9071]'s profile image [expired user #9071] posted 9 years ago in General Permalink
I don't blame you for wanting to get paid for your hard work, but the donate button makes it impossible for me to use your software. I'm fairly ADD, and changing UI elements causes me to lose my attention every time it changes (same reason I have to use adblock).

There's too many good free/open source alternatives out there for me to either buy this or deal with the nagware. I don't expect you to care about your freeloading users, but at least if this project was more clearly marked as nagware, then people wouldn't be annoyed at having wasted time downloading it.

Back to mysql workbench for me. =\
ansgar's profile image ansgar posted 9 years ago Permalink
Sad to hear that. But feel free to use an alternative database client.

Indeed I have put so much effort into HeidiSQL over the last 10 years, so I decided to place the mentioned donate buttons in HeidiSQL itself. But most people should be able to ignore these. I think users get very much functionality and an easy to use application for these buttons.
Spix's profile image Spix posted 9 years ago Permalink
Freeloader2: Yes, there might be other free software alternatives out there, but non is as good as HeidiSql, in my humble opinion.

If you are so distracted by the donate button - just make a small donation and get rid of itsmile

I'm almost blind for ads and alike, so the button was merely noticeable by me, but I made a small donation just to support this superb software. Actually, it doesn't have any equal in the free world of Linux, so I'm back in Windows quite soon after each attempt to move over to Linux :)
[expired user #8611]'s profile image [expired user #8611] posted 9 years ago Permalink
Come on freeloader2, you don't have a few Euro for a small donation?
Even a poor man should have a few Cents to reward the work of other people - otherwise they are really poor (but not regarding money).
L.
[expired user #8516]'s profile image [expired user #8516] posted 9 years ago Permalink
@freeloader2
What's going on with you?
HeidiSQL is a one man Show with realy great Features => Use it or leave it!

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