Channel access | CLOC screensaver removal
Hello Jim,
First off, THANK YOU for the brilliant CLOC screensaver! We've thoroughly enjoyed having it these past few years, not the least of which for the weather information. And yes, we have yo...
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Completely agree. What's worse, most of those garbage screensavers do indeed want a monthly fee of .99 cents.
What I love(d) about the CLOC and CLOCPRI (after Roku's update ruined the "channel" version) is what I really like about Roku in general, and that is the simplicity. It just....works. It's uncluttered, and informative. I sincerely hope Jim 'fixes' the channel version, per Roku's new ridiculous totalitarian-regime mandates. Argh.
Just to give everyone a little more information about the situation - the reason the public version hasn't been updated in a while to fix the weather is that it uses old components that aren't allowed for new or updated channels/apps, so it practically has to be rewritten from scratch. If I could just make the private version public I would have done that a long time ago.
As for private channels being removed there's probably no one more outraged than me. Private channels are the reason I got into Roku development in the first place. It's just a case of a few rotten apples spoiling it for the rest of us.
-JT
While I never have gotten around to building any channels myself, knowing that I or anyone else could do so--even if they weren't included in Roku's public channel listings---is what made Roku feel like a worthwhile platform for me. "Made", past tense. renojim , are there any other platforms, either well-established or up-and-coming, that you consider to have the openness and flexibility that Roku once did, and that you would consider a worthy successor to Roku?
"This approach, while very aggravating to just about everybody, at least is taking a "rip the bandage off" approach and getting all of the hurt happening at once. Now the healing can begin."
Wow. I appreciate the very honest response, yet highlighting a very bad business practice to knowingly and intentionally upset a large community of users instead of weeding out those who were breaking the rules.
Was this method easier to accomplish than looking at each app? Yup. Was there a way to remove the rule-breakers without annoying and inconveniencing the users AND developers as scapegoats? Yup, but it would have required more work.
You took the easy way out, diminishing the value of your developers and the desires of your customers. So "healing" to me feels like: We hope everyone will just forget about this eventually.
Not a happy camper,Meebs
For me, right now, CLOC Public is working, but of course no weather, and sometimes the screen goes black for a while. ... Jim, thank you so very much for keeping this app updated through all these years ... all the repeat submissions for CLOC Public approval as the NWS servers change (when CLOC Public used to work), then Roku sunsetting the components needed to make CLOC Public work, now the nuking of private channeling altogether. Your patience is apparently eternal. If I recall correctly, CLOC is one of the most used apps on Roku, so your work is certainly valuable to so many, for its streamlined font & appearance, as well as the weather functionality. I hope you do get a chance to re-write CLOC Public -- and I for one certainly understand if you decide you need to charge a fee so you can devote your time to doing so and for continuing to maintain it.
rdharrison, I haven't really looked into developing for other platforms. I've tried Amazon and Google devices, but I don't really like them. They both allow you to sideload as far as I know, but Android development isn't something that's been all that appealing to me. I keep saying I'm going to start, but I never get around to it.
Thanks, Jim. It sounds like you're going to have to basically re-write all of your apps pretty much from scratch, which sucks.
It also seems to me that instead of weeding out the "few rotten apples" which Roku surely could've done, this is more of a "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" approach. Making Roku more like Apple's imperialistic little 'empire'. :smileymad:
Wow, poor put-upon Roku...sounds like they had no choice. *sniff*
This seems to be more about making everyone be 'checked at the gate' so that Roku can ensure they keep doing what's looking more and more like their primary job: selling our data.
bellsfolly83 wrote:... It also seems to me that instead of weeding out the "few rotten apples" which Roku surely could've done, this is more of a "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" approach. ...
Roku has been doing that. It wasn't enough. This approach, while very aggravating to just about everybody, at least is taking a "rip the bandage off" approach and getting all of the hurt happening at once. Now the healing can begin.
meebzorp wrote:... Wow. I appreciate the very honest response, yet highlighting a very bad business practice to knowingly and intentionally upset a large community of users instead of weeding out those who were breaking the rules. ...
Are you thinking I'm from Roku? Read my signature. I'm just offering an opinion about what's going on.
Sorry, man. My error.
I want CLOC scrensaver back!! Good Grief...Roku!! I love my Roku but have no need for the extremely boring fish pond !!
CLOC & WEATHER ......
