I finally managed to get a reply from a LimeWire Developer:

In the private message, he wrote this:

"We basically don't reply because we don't have time to monitor the forums enough to know that the thread exists. This is because we're working constantly to improve LimeWire, fixing issues such as this. It's really just a constant tradeoff that we have to make -- the more time we spend on the forums and many other places (Gnutella developer groups, for example), the less time we have to write code to make the software better. We try to do the best we can, but it's just a difficult situation because the less time we spend coding, the more people complain about problems with the current version, leading to more time spent discussing those issues with users, which leads to yet less time spent coding, etc. etc.

So, I do apologize that we have not addressed these issues on the forums. There are really only 5 of us, though, and I assure you that we have our hands quite full. I have neglected the forums in the past several weeks to devote more time to writing code, but hopefully I will have some time to devote here fairly soon.

Thanks for your concern."


In one of the threads, he wrote this:

"Thanks for all of the comments. Our apologies for not responding to some of the threads -- we really do have limited resources and have to make a tradeoff between working on the program and answering people's questions or responding to their comments. As you probably know, I and the other LimeWire people who post here are the developers who actually write the software (and there are only five of us!), so it's just a constant battle to try to get to everything!

We are working on the resuming issue in various ways. Actually, we're really tackling it by just improving the general architecture of the network so that resuming will improve along with a bunch of other things. The changes will really be on two fronts: 1) HUGE (Hash/URN Gnutella Extension), as mentioned above, will introduce a really nice scheme for efficiently finding duplicate of file on the network in a really robust way, which will improve resumes when you need to resume from another host and 2) Far better swarmed downloading using HTTP 1.1, which will make resuming an issue less often. This change will significantly improve download speeds.

So, we have at least a couple a neat features coming along in LimeWire 2.3.0 fairly soon. We will also be updating the integrated player at least on OS X to use the native QuickTime API, so you'll get the best sound available on any system, at least on OS X. We may integrate this as an optional download on other platforms as well."


So I guess they are really working on it!