@faraday said in A new platform?:
@thatguythere said in A new platform?:
@faraday
I fail to see how those being split into two different windows would be better? All that does is make me flip between windows to see things.
Then there's nothing I can say to convince you. Continue enjoying the old systems.
This is one of the big problems. With the avent of graphical front ends and all the ooo shiney out there, people have in their heads how they want things.
People hate Penn's @mail system.
People love Penn's @mail system.
People hate MUX/TM3's @mail system.
People love MUX/TM3's @mail system.
People love the very old Brandy +mail system.
People hate the very old Brandy +mail system.
I could go on, and include Thunderbird, GMail, Outlook, Mutt, Pine, Elm, Mailx/Nail, and any number of profesional grade mail systems out there, as well as the hundreds of clients.
And you'll always get a large number of people who hate and love them.
So the correct answer is giving tools for people to be able to make their own.
Then of course, you get people bitching that they don't have the skill to make it.
Then you suggest they get someone else to make it.
Then they say it's too expensive, or the other person isn't doing it the way they want.
End of the day, people bitch for bitching's sake. Likely they will never be happy. So here's an idea. STOP TRYING TO MAKE THEM HAPPY.
Give them everything they need to find their own happiness, if they can't find it, their problem, not ours. Period.
With Rhost, it had a very unique but powerful mail system.
People disliked it as it wasn't compatible with MUX. We made it so.
People disliked it as it wasn't compatible with Penn. We made it so.
People disliked it as it wasn't compatible with Brandy +mail. We made it so.
People disliked it as it couldn't be used with other clients. We made it so.
We even made it so you can download your mail and use it in a client of your choice from an MBOX standard format.
There's going to be a point where you have to stop say 'you know, I did all I can' and people are going to have to meet you half way.
Some learning of new things is expected. So how about we lay that expectation on others and not trying to dumb it down so much it becomes repulsive to everyone else?