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<blockquote data-quote="davegson" data-source="post: 946101" data-attributes="member: 92101"><p>Hey there Malewaretips community, co-founder here <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👋" title="Waving hand :wave:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f44b.png" data-shortname=":wave:" /></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>I was banned for my post yesterday, that is why it vanished. Probably too many links triggered some spam mechanism. I appealed and now I'm back <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite109" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> new version has fewer links, I am sure you will find the other resources mentioned</p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>first off, thanks for giving the Portmaster a go, thanks for the thread and for all your feedback!</p><p></p><p>As CyberDevil already mentioned it is a challenge for us to follow and respond to all activities over various platforms. For a guaranteed response please come by on <a href="https://github.com/safing/portmaster/" target="_blank">GitHub</a> or send us an email (find the mail on our homepage). But I will definitely lurk to answer non-technical stuff and ask the Portmaster devs to chime in from time to time for technical stuff, hope that will work out.</p><p></p><p><strong>First Reactions</strong></p><p></p><p>The topic around DNS was discussed in depth in GitHub issue #325, where our blog post on Attributing DNS Requests on Windows came up (linked above in CyberDevil's post from June 1st).</p><p></p><p>And in terms of this:</p><p></p><p></p><p>I definitely agree that we are ambitious. But please take Daniel's communication about "we have XYZ planned" with a pinch of salt. We do brainstorm and collect ideas, both from within the team and from the community (and Daniel is great at that <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />). But at the end of the day, we gather all these ideas and somebody else - not the techies - calls the shots of what gets worked on next and what not.</p><p></p><p><strong>We Love Feedback, Even If Features Cannot Be Guaranteed</strong></p><p></p><p>I hope it is communicated clearly that we are only working on things mentioned in the <a href="https://safing.io/next/" target="_blank">Next Page</a> (and some smaller stuff and bug fixes which do not justify a full card). Everything else is collected in our <a href="https://safing.io/backlog/" target="_blank">Backlog</a> and our Project Management System, dubbed the "CC". We have plenty of ideas flowing around, but in the end, no feature can be guaranteed. It might not fit into our vision for the Portmaster, or it might not be technically feasible to implement. And naturally we just take it step by step via prioritization, as we have done so far.</p><p></p><p>And there your voice has an impact! We love to hear about your experiences and appreciate all reports/suggestions you have for the Portmaster! It gives us a reality check of where we really stand, and feedback from a user weighs so much more. We have all become a bit expert blind (I think that is a term).</p><p></p><p><strong>Help Us Maturing Into Beta</strong></p><p></p><p>As we are currently in alpha we are mostly interested in finding nasty bugs, incompatibilities with other software and your experiences as new Portmaster users. Some features and behavior have become super obvious to us, but for new users they are not! Hearing about these experiences is super valuable to us.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for this! I'll try to update the docs in the next week.</p><p></p><p>Both UX and technical stability needs improving for us to be able to move into Beta, which is our goal - and if anyone can find nasty edge cases, I am sure I have come to the right community <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite110" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Thanks again for all the love, feel free to follow up! Looking forward to the next weeks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davegson, post: 946101, member: 92101"] Hey there Malewaretips community, co-founder here 👋 -------------------------------------------------------------- I was banned for my post yesterday, that is why it vanished. Probably too many links triggered some spam mechanism. I appealed and now I'm back :) new version has fewer links, I am sure you will find the other resources mentioned -------------------------------------------------------------- first off, thanks for giving the Portmaster a go, thanks for the thread and for all your feedback! As CyberDevil already mentioned it is a challenge for us to follow and respond to all activities over various platforms. For a guaranteed response please come by on [URL='https://github.com/safing/portmaster/']GitHub[/URL] or send us an email (find the mail on our homepage). But I will definitely lurk to answer non-technical stuff and ask the Portmaster devs to chime in from time to time for technical stuff, hope that will work out. [B]First Reactions[/B] The topic around DNS was discussed in depth in GitHub issue #325, where our blog post on Attributing DNS Requests on Windows came up (linked above in CyberDevil's post from June 1st). And in terms of this: I definitely agree that we are ambitious. But please take Daniel's communication about "we have XYZ planned" with a pinch of salt. We do brainstorm and collect ideas, both from within the team and from the community (and Daniel is great at that ;)). But at the end of the day, we gather all these ideas and somebody else - not the techies - calls the shots of what gets worked on next and what not. [B]We Love Feedback, Even If Features Cannot Be Guaranteed[/B] I hope it is communicated clearly that we are only working on things mentioned in the [URL='https://safing.io/next/']Next Page[/URL] (and some smaller stuff and bug fixes which do not justify a full card). Everything else is collected in our [URL='https://safing.io/backlog/']Backlog[/URL] and our Project Management System, dubbed the "CC". We have plenty of ideas flowing around, but in the end, no feature can be guaranteed. It might not fit into our vision for the Portmaster, or it might not be technically feasible to implement. And naturally we just take it step by step via prioritization, as we have done so far. And there your voice has an impact! We love to hear about your experiences and appreciate all reports/suggestions you have for the Portmaster! It gives us a reality check of where we really stand, and feedback from a user weighs so much more. We have all become a bit expert blind (I think that is a term). [B]Help Us Maturing Into Beta[/B] As we are currently in alpha we are mostly interested in finding nasty bugs, incompatibilities with other software and your experiences as new Portmaster users. Some features and behavior have become super obvious to us, but for new users they are not! Hearing about these experiences is super valuable to us. Thanks for this! I'll try to update the docs in the next week. Both UX and technical stability needs improving for us to be able to move into Beta, which is our goal - and if anyone can find nasty edge cases, I am sure I have come to the right community ;) Thanks again for all the love, feel free to follow up! Looking forward to the next weeks [/QUOTE]
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