Markdown - abandoned! - do not upgrade!

dixonge 2016-11-10 11:53:38 UTC #1

Evidently Evan has moved on, which is certainly his prerogative. He is now busy as a manager at Amazon in Seattle, according to his LinkedIn profile

It would be nice if he simply took this software down, since it is NOT functional. It would also be nice if he stopped accepting Pro upgrade payments for a non-functional software. I take that back - it's not about nice, it's about avoiding fraud...

bugatha1 2016-11-10 16:35:25 UTC #2

So upsetting to read this now. I just upgraded a few weeks ago and I need search and replace, which was a promised features.

DanBennett 2016-11-14 09:47:43 UTC #3

Heh. I just registered to ask if this had been abandoned. Sad.

Anyone know any good alternatives? MarkdownPad is very good with HUGE (176,000) word files. Typora, not so much...

dixonge 2016-11-14 12:34:25 UTC #4

I finally went back to Atom, which I was using when I did web development. I'm very happy. Lots of good Markdown plugins to enable auto-preview and scroll-sync, etc.

lkview 2016-12-21 14:14:47 UTC #5

Yikes. just paid for the pro version, and I get "this view has crashed".

RichardCasto 2017-05-22 15:31:49 UTC #6

I check in here every few months to check for any updates. It appears it is a ghost ship with nobody onboard and the software doesn't work correctly with Windows 10. The ethical thing would be for Evan to do would be to shut down the pro purchase link (which is still active as of this writing).

yslited 2017-09-04 05:09:16 UTC #7

I presume you had this problem as well? I did, and I just downloaded the appropriate Awesomium SDK to fix the problem.

kingkeith 2017-10-02 08:29:00 UTC #8

it'd be nice if this topic could be pinned, but I guess those of us that do check in occasionally to see if there is any activity can just bump it back to the top again when necessary...

corradovaleri 2017-11-08 15:58:35 UTC #9

Hi all,
I just invited the author to answer to my question here.

corradovaleri 2017-11-15 15:10:54 UTC #10

Hi there,
I have submitted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
I invite you all to do the same : more complaints we submit, more probabilities we have to stop this unfair business.
Here's the link to the FTC complaint assistant : https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
If you don't know what to write, here's the mine as example:

rev 2018-03-16 19:41:18 UTC #11

problems rendering the preview can be resolved by installing this: http://markdownpad.com/download/awesomium_v1.6.6_sdk_win.exe

RichardCasto 2020-09-30 20:43:46 UTC #12

Years later and he is still probably pulling in money for a broken and abandoned product.