Dear Construct Team
Please take this really as constructive criticism, i don‘t want to say this in any mean-spirited way but i recently realized it‘s been seven years since the Timeline feature was first released and i unfortunately as a day 1 C3 user and an animator by trade have to say, it STILL is one of the most unstable parts in Construct. Looking at the bug tracker there‘s barely a release cycle where there isn‘t some workflow jarring issue whether it‘s just unexpected behaviour or flat out crashes. It sometimes feels a bit like a house of cards where you report one issue, which gets fixed, but therefore it crashes at another end the next release.
I know you will say report any bugs to the Github and believe me i do. A LOT. But you also have to understand: you‘re not the only ones who are kind of busy 😅 I can‘t serve as a free beta tester at all times. I would really wish for some more rigorous in-house testing by Scirra at least in the areas which are known to be a bit wonky.
I would simply like to ask you to please, please maybe just take one or two solid months to stress test the timeline thoroughly and hopefully bring it to a point where it‘s as stable as most of the other C3 areas i.e. the event sheet editor which barely ever makes any problems.
As somebody who apprenticed using Director and Flash and currently uses the Timeline extensively for new projects it‘s unfortunate that it is more often than not kind of a show stopper. It‘s a great feature and very cool that C3 offers it and while maybe not the best Timeline i‘ve ever worked with it‘s totally serviceable but it needs to be stable and bugs should be the exception, not the rule and at the moment unfortunately they are.
I‘m not asking for any new additions to it, please just give it a bit of focused attention, that would be great, thank you very much, very excited about all the nice improvements lately!