Panic releases Unison 2, improves binaries support

With the new version 2 of Unison, I thought there should be a place to
discuss the program, including new feature requests. I've seen discussion about the program in many places, but no dedicated forum, so I created a Yahoo group:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/unison_mac

Please join if you'd like and let other Unison users know about it. I
hope that eventually Panic will create forums on their website, but
until then...

David

See the comments on MacUpdate on the new Unison v2. A lot of people are complaining that v2 is a lot of new eye candy but the performance and functionality is WORSE than v1.8. It looks like Panic needs to do a lot more work on v2.

I won't be upgrading.

I blindly updated, should have tried the trial first. I have some other Panic software (Transmit, Coda) and use all daily.
It hosed my favorites and the interface will take some getting used to. It would be nice if there was some documentation on keeping your favorites. To pay $18 for an upgrade and then need to set everything else up again kinda irks me. Thanks for mentioning NNTPGrab, I may try it.

Looks like a nice update. The upgrade price could be a little lower though.

I loved unison when it worked --- back on Leopard or Tiger. Ever since I upgraded to SL I've had serious crashes and other bugs have popped up - I've reported them all to Panic. The crashing and bugs have been carried over to v2.0. I am trying to get 1.8.1 from Panic so I can go back to my old comfortable crashy version.

Sadly, I asked for a simple feature request (ability to "launch" downloads like the way firefox or safari download window works) and they did not even consider it as it does not work in 2.0 --- gee thanks for listening to your customers.

Sadly when I offered to beta test for them I was ignored --- if I had been allowed to test I would have been able to report that the crashing/bugs were not resolved.

Anyway, here's hoping for 2.0.x or 2.x or whatever ;-)

Perfect for crawling around the seamy underbelly of the Internet. Take along plenty of those alcohol wipes that Monk uses. And, for God's sake, don't touch ANYTHING! Don't touch the door. Don't touch the sink. And above all, don't touch that nasty faucet that's supposed to flush the toilet! Oh, and, I'll be lurking in the last stall. See ya there...

I love Unison, and this looks like a good upgrade after playing around with it for a few minutes, but v1.x users should be aware that overwriting your current installation will hose your favorites. Mine were gone after I dragged v2 to my Applications folder and replaced v1.8.2.

Important advantage of Unison over Sabnzbd et al. is that it also handles uploads effortlessly. Drop and go.

Yeah, but, who actually uses newsgroups anymore??? Seems like most ISP's have dropped their news servers--are there any places that are decent that provide them for free...I don't see paying any amount of money for something like that. It's a lot like owning a landline telephone.

I use sabNZBd plus and hook it up to an rss feed. It downloads automatically, unrars, deletes and then emails me when its ready.