Why the hell is LM Studio making LM Studio so difficult to download?
A Reddit user expressed frustration with LM Studio's marketing strategy, stating that the company is making it difficult to download the original LM Studio product by heavily promoting their new Bionic Agent. The user, who previously enjoyed LM Studio as a stepping stone in their inference progression, criticized the decision as the "dumbest marketing decision" they've seen, arguing it ruins goodwill by force-feeding an unwanted product. They urged LM Studio to stop redirecting users to Bionic when they are searching for the namesake product.
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Who is the marketing genius at LM Studio that decided that going ALL IN on pushing their new Bionic Agent product meant they are going to make it a giant pain in the ass to find and download actual LM Studio.
This is the dumbest marketing decision I’ve ever seen. I used to love LM Studio, it was the middle stepping stone in the logical progression of inference. Most OGs here likely started with Ollama, moved to LM Studio, on their way to vLLM. Now trying to go to LM Studio takes you to Bionic. I mean, you can eventually find LM Studio but they make it not super easy.
Here’s a thought LM Studio, maybe stop redirecting me to something I don’t want to download when I’m trying to find your actual namesake product. I’m glad you’re excited about the future of Agents and whatnot, but you’re absolutely ruining any goodwill I have for your products by trying to force feed me Bionic. Stahhhhhp!