Legend, where are we?

christophe

Hello,
I just paid for the annual automatic renewal of Legend. I’m starting again for a year, and I’ve been a subscriber since November 22, 2015, and a premium member since September 14, 2020.
So I’m asking this slightly provocative question!
Where are we with the development of Legend?
It has been said for many months that bug fixes would become a priority, after the synchronization problem. It’s been 5 or 6 months since it was finally fixed, but the most annoying bugs are still not managed!
No minor updates for 2 months, I’m thinking in particular of this black connection banner that appears as soon as you open the mobile application on Android (bug for at least 6 months), it’s unbearable.
Problems with Mailbird are frequent.
We still can’t manage emails on Legend, and he said 2 or 3 years ago that we would have to deal with this document management problem (impossible to delete old documents, impossible to permanently delete deleted items).
I’m sorry, it’s a misunderstanding for me.
So I really wonder if development is not going to be abandoned in the coming months?
Thanks

Eik

I’m also very interested what the future will bring for Legend. A roadmap and actual commitment to the roadmap would be nice.

SamMarrocco

Eik

I’m 100% certain you’ll never see a “commitment” to a roadmap from a software developer, but you might see an outdated roadmap.

That being said, I agree with you and Christophe on your points…..

Communication in general on the boards and marketing seems stalled. When was the last time a dev posted a Legend Forum acknowledgement/response? Similar to Christophe, I was about to invest in a lifetime Legend purchase, but the lack of feature development for so long makes me nervous.

Respectfully to those who use them and won’t like this suggestion, but Legend has too many ‘major features’ that should be trimmed back to make the core app easier to manage for it’s (obviously) small dev team. Things like browsing and email should never have been added until the core was stabile (which it now is) and the long list of ‘little things’ that are continually added were narrowed.

While it would be nice to see a ‘lane-type’ list of features and where they stand in priorities, I suspect we’ll never see that as it would take too much time to keep that type of info current and available to the public on a timely basis. The last blog “what’s new” was April.

We seem to all be sharing the same concerns right now.

scaryterry

IMO, I think we’re in a good place as is. The sync system work well, those latest performance improvements were huge, outlook web mail works via the browser pane, not to mention the browser pane is very useful in its own right. I agree that the roadmap is due for an update.

andrew

Re adding email, that’s been a feature for, what, like a decade, added just after launch? Without it, I would never have started using it. What it is now is actually much simpler (just a browser window rather than actual email client).

But conceptually I do agree that it would be great to get a status update and have the long outstanding bugs fixed before adding any more features.

christophe

Unfortunately, for emails, not really.
When you move an email in the plan, then archive the email on Outlook, the link is broken, you have to go and get the email directly in Outlook (I think it’s the same for Gmail but I haven’t checked).
We don’t need any more new features until the important bugs that have been reported for a long time are fixed, and there are many, just follow the forum feed. Some were reported over a year ago.
I make an exception regarding the mobile application. Jay had indicated that once the synchronization problems were resolved, he would tackle the bug fixes and then the mobile application relentlessly.
For now, to my great regret, it’s neither one nor the other.

wecanseeformiles

I agree with these points. I wonder if Legend is just underfunded at this point because its revenues don’t justify much additional work. I suspect it may need outside investors to ramp it up to the next stage and keep it relevant and profitable in a market space with new and interesting participants like Tana and Capacities. I still think that Legend offers a better and more comprehensive feature set but it’s rough around the edges.

SamMarrocco

wecanseeformiles

I don’t believe it could possibly be an underfunding issue. Understaffing, perhaps.

If it was purely a money issue, a simple solution would be this: Shut off the tap for free usage after 60 days, then you must pay for subscription. Instant revenue stream increase (some will begin paying for use) combined with less users (those that decide not to pay) for which Legend has to pay for their storage and maintenance. It’s a two-pronged solution with no downside for the company and only upsides.

wecanseeformiles

@SamMarrocco that’s an interesting thought. Freemium seems to be in industry standard but it’s well worth looking at optimising the ‘free’ portion against the ‘premium’ portion. But you also have to look at the marketing. Legend is little mentioned online whereas there seems to be lots of stuff about competitors like Tana and Capacities.