# Is SmartThings development dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [September 2, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/is-smartthings-development-dead/56400 "2016-09-02T20:15:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 93
**Author:** ![pstuart](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/pstuart/32/82936_2.png) [@pstuart](https://community.smartthings.com/u/pstuart)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/is-smartthings-development-dead/56400/93 "2016-09-07T01:54:16Z")
ironically, I was searching for a post I did a long time ago, similar thread from 2014 > [@SmartThings Current State is Stalled?](https://community.smartthings.com/t/smartthings-current-state-is-stalled/5367): > > Well, I hate to do this, but honestly, a reality check is needed. I’ve been patiently waiting for simple functionality and can’t wait much longer. I’m stalled in all my integration projects, hoping for better IP local capabilities, better image handling, better UI customization / interaction with end users, etc. Android still doesn’t have persistent image access, which means cameras are useless Can’t send MMS or email with or without an attachment either No user level support, so I have to annoy my wife with all my alerts No official Nest support, I get 5-10 requests a week to make my device “Official” IDE is a mess… It has become a slow, annoying pile of lack of debug logging because the response is too big, it doesn’t feel like it or somewhere my code is wrong, but it doesn’t kno… Guess we’ll argue this till ST is finally toast… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.smartthings.com/t/is-smartthings-development-dead/56400)._