Please remove the “Check for Update” feature in the GUI as we cannot trust the answer “There is no update available” while the releases page clearly states updates are available.
Add the feature again when it’s trustworthy again. Don’t come with bullshit like gradual roll-out of updates. I am not talking about auto-updating, I’m talking about the actual manual function “check for update”, a function which is the first to try whenever something doesn’t work as expected. It’s not like everyone is hitting that button every day.
As illustration:
I raised a question about searching in blacklists only to discover it got included in some update a couple of months later.
I just got fed up again with the inability to paste as quote functionality, I had already read on the forum it’s not supported. But to my surprise it actually did get added recently.
In both cases, Check for Update" told me "There is no update available. I then just downloaded EM Client again, installed it over my current installation and voila, there they were, the updates.
Please remove the “Check for Update” functionality and only add it again when it does tell users about newer release. Alternatively, add the (rather ridiculous) message to the dialog box inviting people to visit the releases page manually to really check for updates.
I am a software developer myself. I really do not understand the real reasoning behind the current functionality.