Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
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Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
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Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#2I'm actually kind of happy about this. While I don't personally use Atom at all, I think it's good that an open source editor is getting extremely popular.
Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it.
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#3Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#4Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
I have no idea what the system is, but it could be something as innocuous as automatic updates. In reality, they probably do send some form of diagnostic information, but since the application is open source, it seems unlikely there would be no way to disable that if it exists.
Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#5Can you imagine, Notepad celebrating 1 billion monthly users?
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#6Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn't be happier. The community around Atom is active, and exciting, much unlike Sublime Text.
I hope subsequent updates make it faster, since ST still has an edge there.
Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#7Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
It checks for updates automatically, so I think that gives them the stats, same should be valid for Sublime.
Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#8I'm actually kind of happy about this. While I don't personally use Atom at all, I think it's good that an open source editor is getting extremely popular. Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it.
> Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it.
Same here, and when I recently ran into some built in limitations with gvim regarding its inability to easily deal with proportional width fonts, I switched to Atom. I've been really happy so far -- the vim mode plugin is nice. Atom isn't perfect, but it's good enough for now, and the extensibility model makes me confident that it will just keep getting better.
Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#9Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
If that creeps you out, you should probably run a completely closed firewall, where you specifically enable applications' access to the network. I don't know if it is new normal, or old normal, or even normal, but many applications have been doing it for a long time now.
Re: Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users
#10Is anyone else creeped out that this desktop application phones home every time you start it? Is this just the new normal now?
I have no idea what the system is, but it could be something as innocuous as automatic updates. In reality, they probably do send some form of diagnostic information, but since the application is open source, it seems unlikely there would be no way to disable that if it exists.
https://github.com/atom/metrics#collected-data
Metrics collection can be disabled by the user, and this option is also presented to the user on first load of Atom.