RavenStreamer
Member
Hi folks. I've posted this on the OBS Discord as well.
I'm fairly active in the Reddit OBS sub and have seen the usual deluge of "OBS broke after updating" posts since v33 dropped. The vast majority of the problems are plugin related due to the plugin devs not yet having updated their products for compatibility to v33. I think a warning popup during OBS installation/update to notify users about updating their plugins or waiting to update OBS until compatible plugins are available would be a huge help.
While experienced OBS users are familiar with the plugin issue around updates, newer users are not and end up blaming the OBS team for broken plugins. It's not the team's responsibility to update the plugins or vet compatibility, and I'm not suggesting the team take a more active hand in any of that, but a basic text popup/confirmation box early in the install/update process wouldn't be hard to implement and would give users fair warning to check their plugins before continuing with the update.
I'm fairly active in the Reddit OBS sub and have seen the usual deluge of "OBS broke after updating" posts since v33 dropped. The vast majority of the problems are plugin related due to the plugin devs not yet having updated their products for compatibility to v33. I think a warning popup during OBS installation/update to notify users about updating their plugins or waiting to update OBS until compatible plugins are available would be a huge help.
While experienced OBS users are familiar with the plugin issue around updates, newer users are not and end up blaming the OBS team for broken plugins. It's not the team's responsibility to update the plugins or vet compatibility, and I'm not suggesting the team take a more active hand in any of that, but a basic text popup/confirmation box early in the install/update process wouldn't be hard to implement and would give users fair warning to check their plugins before continuing with the update.