As I mentioned earlier, if I could muster up the time and enthusiasm—something that’s getting harder to do with Bambu these days—I went against my better judgment and gave the beta a shot. My confidence in Bambu producing stable software is pretty much gone at this point, but hey, there’s one feature I’m interested in: connecting via an IP address. All I am looking for is a more stable way to connect in LAN-only mode, nothing complicated. So, I downloaded it. Predictably, it crashed.
At least I could still connect via the normal LAN-only mode. Small mercies, right?
But I was really hoping for a stable connectivity solution, as well noted in this epic rant from @Aurasphere.
Look, I get that this is Beta, and I was prepared for some bugs. But I am so done with this company’s opaque attitude and cryptic error messages, especially when there’s no way to look up the error code [0500 4003 095420]. I even collected a fair bit of diagnostic info using Microsoft’s debugger, which I normally would have gladly shared—if this company had earned my loyalty. But they refuse to let us help ourselves, despite Spaghetti Monster’s claim on the blog that we are supposedly ‘DIY Spirited.’ So, what is my incentive to share this diagnostic data with them when I get nothing in return?
Bambu claims to read these forums. Well if they are, then here’s an open statement to them: