Tweetdeck will not start up now, plus loss of functionality

Right now, my Tweetdeck will not start up. The spinning clock was spinning for an hour.
I tried deleting the app and re-downloading, but that didn’t fix it.
Version is 3.9.583-a956295 (3.9.583-mac) on an i7 - running 10.9.5

I do like the tweet quoting, but I also like to edit RTs, especially when they are too long and I can selectively chop off a few characters.
Also, I sometimes want to get access to the text so I can improve it without retyping the whole thing.
Another thing I really don’t like is when I want to RT a tweet that was already RTd, I want to RT my friend, not the original person.
Another thing I REALLY don’t like is that I used to be able to build a #FF tweet by clicking another person’s reply icon, but that functionality has gone away.

I used to manage programmers, so I understand the always want to make “improvements” - but you guys should know by now not to let programmers mess up great functionality so they can give us something they think is important - and that goes for program managers too - because what they want is not important if it upsets your customers.
- I just watched a local company go into complete meltdown because the programmers wouldn’t listen.

This is REALLY disappointing.

I see by the stars above that you have really upset a lot of us.
Please give us back the functionality we use and need - before we go and find or build another app.
- and making it actually work again would be a good thing too.

Judyth piazza about TweetDeck by Twitter