mpowell on 2 june 2018 wrote:today we've introduced a lot of new changes to Criticker. The most visible are a set of changes to inputs and forms across Criticker, to make the site more attractive and usable.
@mpowell:As a longtime user, could I ask you a personal question ?
According to what you kindly share with us folks here, your manpower is very limited. I can't begin to imagine how frustrating it must be to deal with the deluge of bugs you are fighting since 2 june. As someone who has been here for a long time, I know that bugfixing time since 2 june is at least 20x the average amount of all the months since I am a member here. The bug report threads have gone through the roof.
I am wondering – and this is my question really: Why did you
"introduce a lot of new changes to Criticker" ?
You wrote:
"To make the site more attractive and usable".
But your site was already very attractive and perfectly usable before!
Rather to the contrary, the few changes I see feel like regression rather than progression. I counted over 10 changes that upon user requests you reverted (
thankfully! It's really cool that you listen to your users. I have never seen this before. Most site owners only stick with that they like best themselves.) back to how it was before,
for example:
here or
here or
here or
here.
Instead of altering your site, which was perfectly usable and almost everyone was happy with, and having to fix all those related bugs, wouldn't it be better to leave the site as is and concentrate more on adding some of the many awesome features suggested by users here in the feature request section ?
I am sure you have your reasons, as you are the only one who knows what is going on behind the scenes, but could you share some of your reasons, so that we might be able to understand some of your reasoning and what's going on?
thank you so much
