No Categories

Jason · October 26, 2022, 05:51:22 AM

Hi everyone,

Just loaded Patch My PC, I did not there are no categories/subcategories. On the new version. As per the screenshot. Is there anyone to set categories such as "Browsers" etc? Screenshot 2022-10-26 104645.png

Please let me know.

Thanks again.

coover · October 26, 2022, 07:38:40 AM

Same here! I no longer see about 30 apps that "Patch ..." formerly updated. I'm suspecting a possible legal problem might have caused this. Let us know what is happening or if this is in error.

Jason · October 26, 2022, 07:51:41 AM

Hi Coover,

Could be? Not sure.
Let's see if we can get some clarity.

Kurotaku · October 27, 2022, 06:20:32 AM

Changed in 4.5.0.0

"Removed the software groups. Now all software is under one list sorted alphabetically, portable software is still in its own group."

But tbh I hate it that its removed, I liked browsing through the categories and look if there is something nice to have.

I really don't understand what the admin was thinking about removing a feature instead of make it chooseable.....

theJazzman42 · October 27, 2022, 09:08:40 AM

Please bring back the categories.

And lots of the 300 software packages are missing now. Instead of 30+ of them installed, now I only get 20+ listed.

Jason · October 27, 2022, 09:14:50 AM

Hi theJazzman42,

I so agree with the categories and subcategories, everything was all in order, and now everything is in one huge list.

theJazzman42 · October 27, 2022, 09:21:34 AM

I always recommended PatchMyPC to people with low-level PC knowledge to keep their apps up2date and to install new software. Especially for these people it's almost useless now.

robwolfe · October 27, 2022, 10:03:08 AM

I also agree the categories were most useful. My question would be why not allow one to choose categories or all in one list.

theJazzman42 · October 27, 2022, 10:09:20 AM

Sounds like a good compromise. Could be placed in options.

Another proposal - choose which categories you wanna see.

Jason · October 27, 2022, 12:19:59 PM

Quote from: theJazzman42 on October 27, 2022, 09:21:34 AMI always recommended PatchMyPC to people with low-level PC knowledge to keep their apps up2date and to install new software. Especially for these people it's almost useless now.

I also recommend it too

Jason · October 27, 2022, 12:22:10 PM

Quote from: robwolfe on October 27, 2022, 10:03:08 AMI also agree the categories were most useful. My question would be why not allow one to choose categories or all in one list.

I fully agree or have the option to have it with categories or not.

linkhunter · October 28, 2022, 12:11:47 AM

It look like a huge mess
I am dyslexic. I have no problem with reading it's just the spelling I'm bad at.

Categories help a lot for me since I don't need to use the search function. I just hope they gonna bring it back again soon

Jason · October 28, 2022, 03:16:08 AM

Quote from: linkhunter on October 28, 2022, 12:11:47 AMIt looks like a huge mess
I am dyslexic. I have no problem with reading it's just the spelling I'm bad at.

Categories help a lot for me since I don't need to use the search function. I just hope they gonna bring it back again soon

I fully understand, what I liked with the categories was everything was in its place, for example, "Browsers" Etc.

robwolfe · October 28, 2022, 06:07:40 PM

I heard from Justin and was told "Omar let our engineering know, and we should be able to get this resolved in a future update".

Robert

coover · October 28, 2022, 06:18:28 PM

Quote from: robwolfe on October 28, 2022, 06:07:40 PMI heard from Justin and was told "Omar let our engineering know, and we should be able to get this resolved in a future update".

Robert

I hope that update will be soon. I cannot imagine that adding the categories again would be a difficult programing problem. It would (I think) only require a few lines (the categories) to be added back to the program and other lines moved to fit the categories.