[ddouglass]

First let me say this. I am not an employee of MTU, but just a user like you. I am a Beta Tester for MTU and a long time user as well as having been an IT tech for many years.

CONS
1. How many program releases have you seen that are completely bug free. No matter how much testing and retesting a program is put through prior to release (Microsoft tested Vista for over a year) there will be things that get missed. No matter how much testing you do someone will find a problem.
2. You said yourself that Hoster is the easiest program to use. I don't agree that Hoster is falling behind. Those other programs may have some added features that Hoster doesn't currently have, but from what I have seen they are not all they are hyped up to be. One local KJ uses another program that has Key change built in, but he won't use it. Why because it is difficult to set and doesn't work well. That is definately not the case with Hoster. If the competition were so great then a lot more people would be changing over.
3. MTU used to put information on their website about up-coming releases. The competition was reading it too and getting the jump on MTU by putting out their product first with those added features. I can't say what is going in it, but I will tell you it will have a huge amount of new features. When? This year.

You said if zip files are a problem then leave them out. If you do you have just cut off a great many users. The companies that are beginning to use on-line purchasing and downloading are using zipped mp3+g files for the downloads. They are smaller and easier for the average user to download. Figuring out all the varied formats and determining how to handle them has been a real pain in the A** (sorry Admin) for them. However I think that because of all the time and effort having been expended to get it to work is why Admin made that statement. I think he was just venting a bit as we all need to do from time to time.

Please do not take this as personal Carl. I am only voicing my opinion as you are. You have been an MTU user a bit longer than I have and I respect that. I know you have seen a lot of changes to Hoster and all have been to make it the best on the market.