I'm not saying that no one has problems with Armory. But we got 25,000 downloads each of the last two months, and we get only a handful of support requests each day. Unfortunately, it's still too much, as we need to focus on developing and we're not a customer support house, but we're doing our best to balance everything.
In that particular thread that is linked, we have a problem with certain types of transactions that is affecting at least 2 of the 3 users there reporting issues (which are in this thread). I suspect this pattern is present across a lot of support requests. I whole-heartedly agree that we need to get the app working for those users, but they still represent a small portion of our userbase -- those that are participating in pooled mining. In fact, my neighbor who knows nothing about Bitcoin was able to get Armory running and using it, though she said it took 58 hours to sync.
0.91 is an improvement over 0.90 for sure. But we don't believe that it's a critical upgrade.
A note on your download page informing me that the product is not suitable for those doing pooled mining would have saved both of us a lot of headaches.
What is the best short term solution for us 'pooled miners' who have coins in Armory wallets that wont run?
Agreed. We were not aware of the scope of the issue until now. Most users don't want to send their wallets for privacy reasons, and we are left to speculate on why these issues are happening. Luckily, we have isolated it now, and can act accordingly.
Waiting for Zoella to report back on the disablecomments branch. If his wallet works with the mod, we can add that as a command-line flag until we have fixed the core issue.