I told you, it happend twice, that it switched my category view!! and I did not touch the component, so of course there is a reason, but I assume the reason is a bug.

and as far as the upgrade issues go: obviously the automatic upgrade does not work under certain server environments, in the control panel I see the error message "It was not possible to retrieve latest version information. The upgrade server may be temporarily down. Please, try again later." and "ERROR LOADING FEED DATA"
and in the upgrade tab I see "It was not possible to retrieve latest version information. The upgrade server may be temporarily down. Please, try again later." and "It was not possible to check your registration information. The upgrade server may be temporarily down. Please, try again later."

A little too much error messages considering that I paid for this version...

so, what are you telling me??? the reason that I paid for a crappy software, that offers crappy support and literally no help? wow, stupid me, it was my fault! of course!

problem was i could not upgrade. had to reinstall old paid version and install the new paid version and it did not recognize it is the paid one. did this two times manually deleted the tables from the database and now it seems to work.

but the whole thing was very annoying and only because it suddenly switched my blog-layout-view to category-view without any reason...

I have exactly the same problem. The support and number of bugs (I started another topic, beacause first joomsef suddenly switched my site from blog-layout-view to category view and then after update to the newest version does not recognize that it is the paid version) is really annoying for that it is a commercial component!

I think for my next clients I will not buy it anymore...

Hello,
have big problems with the problmes with the paid version:
I had the version 3.7. and on the upgrade page it always says "It was not possible to retrieve latest version information. The upgrade server may be temporarily down. Please, try again later.
It was not possible to check your registration information. The upgrade server may be temporarily down. Please, try again later."

After Joomsef switched the blog layout to category view for the second time (without changing anything, just happened out of the blue!!!), I thought I had to upgrade, so I uninstalled this version and installed the new 3.8.1 as it won't let me upgrade.

Now the server-temporarily-down-message stills shows, but much more annoying ist the "powered by joomsef"-link that I have on every page!!
how can I get rid of this?

I entered the donwload-id in the registratrion-tab, but somehow it still thinks it is the free version...

please help!
thank you and best regards