Now, this would be so bad if they shipped new versions every year, but when your upgrade cycle is over four years, people begin to wonder if the product is actually going to be upgraded, or if they should start looking elsewhere… Leister, the company that makes Reunion, also does something else a bit maddening, which is that they absolutely refuse to mention anything about future versions until they are already shipping. There are plenty of people that defend this upgrade policy, and say they don’t want to upgrade every year since it costs so much, but that’s a silly argument since I’d rather upgrade for $20 a year then pay $80 every four years. There’s no excuse for upgrades that take four years. It’s true that there are lots of little updates and bug-fixes in-between upgrades, but this is not the same thing. Before that it was about four and half years between upgrades. It’s been about three and a half years since the last major update. One thing I’ve always disliked about Reunion is the fact that it’s upgraded so infrequently. Being more modern isn’t always better if the paradigm doesn’t work for you. ![]() For the most part I like the way it works, and even if the user interface is hopelessly out-of-date, I still like the user interface compared to many other genealogy programs on the Mac. So I’ve been using Reunion on my Mac for a long time.
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