AnyType closed to perform an update while I was typing

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What’s The Bug?

Right at the outset I want to start by saying I am really enjoying AnyType and really appreciate the efforts of the team working on this! This product clearly has a lot of UX thought put into it and I think the community can see that. This is a minor UX gripe, but I wanted to mention it anyway because it was fairly disruptive.

Bug: AnyType closed to perform an update while I was typing.

I did not receive any indication or warning that an update was available, and I lost a bit of what I was working on because the editor simply closed on me.

How To Reproduce It

I am not sure how to reproduce it, I did not take any action (to my knowledge) to update the application.

The Expected Behavior

I would have expected some kind of prompt indicating an update was available

Additional Context

The application closed, almost like it crashed (abruptly), but probably just closed. There was a small native-windows progress bar that popped up saying something about updating and then that closed. I had to re-open Anytype myself, it did not come back up.

Device

Windows Desktop PC, custom

OS

Windows 10

Anytype Version

0.43.6

Network Mode

AnySync

Technical Information

OS version: win32 x64 10.0.19045
App version: 0.43.6
Build number: build on 2024-11-07 16:33:48 +0000 UTC at #7ef8bff406cf2125f54c71f92cb2815f7e6c70bd (dirty)
Library version: v0.36.10
Anytype Identity: A8bR72Yn7kSKeieJrMSoCqwtBTWnbRv2H8kAyyh7VtTJT4cv
Analytics ID: 11d85683-d1ea-4860-b923-f2966ada3b24
Device ID: 12D3KooWNmiwF3bWFMbU98ZoGLRqtu8CFEhckcCwALkyQZWFWY7k

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I think the issue is that

  • while one is typing
  • the notification appears
  • the user doesn’t notice it
  • and continues to type while hitting enter at some point
  • and the update proceeds

It is a common UX issue people complain about. I hope it will get addressed at some point.

3

Thanks for the feedback krst, that seems entirely possible. I did not notice a notification, so I can’t say for sure.

4

This report has been added to our issue tracker and received by the Development Team.

6

This issue has been fixed by the Development Team and will be implemented in an upcoming release.