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Last week I finally made the leap from Tower 2 (which was the last non-recurring one) to a modern version.

The transition was smooth but also it's very annoying that when you open a project and press the down key, it moves through the lateral menu instead of through the files (until you hit one file).

This breaks ~6 years of muscle memory. Could this please be amended (in an opt-in manner, of course)?

It would re-gain my trust, which is necessary for paying a subscription.



I recently made the leap in the opposite direction: after being asked to pay 59€ to continue using the app I downloaded Tower 2. So far I'm not missing anything they introduced since then. I'm actually happy about the old app icon.

When the warning that the license is running out popped up some time ago I expected the app to still work. Just that I won't get any new updates (like Sketch). But no: it just stops working and demands more money. Pew....


> it just stops working and demands more money

Now I start to understand that licensing models like JetBrains' "perpetual fallback license" are really fair. Of course, the "buy once and get all updates" licenses which were available back in the day when apps such as Sublime Text were called "shareware" (actually Sublime Text still has a similar license: if you buy it, you get 3 years of updates) were even better, but hey, software developers need to eat too...


Glad the transition was smooth (for the most part)! Thank you for trying out a new version of Tower.

That's definitely a nice suggestion — I will pass it on to the team.




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