[mythtv-users] family acceptance test.

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:02 PM Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Was there ever any discussion about the rationalization for why the
>>> > interface would change from something usable to something that isn't?
>>>
>>> I think that's an overly harsh characterization of the situation.
>>>
>>> I use it and find it perfectly usable.  Is it exactly laid out how I
>>> would have done it?  No.  Could it be improved?  Sure.  But I don't
>>> think it deserves this level of hate.
>>>
>>> Eric
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>> Hate?  No.  Confusion?  Yes.  Intuitive (especially compared to the
>> previous version)?  No.  I think the empirical evidence of the sheer number
>> of "how does this work?" question shows that.
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> I'd argue vocal minority. People that like it don't bother to pipe up on
> the mailing list about it. People that don't like it are more likely to
> post about it. I had similiar threads when I changed the Mythbuntu theme's
> recordings and videos screens. So much that I decided to release the old
> version as a "classic" version of the theme (as it was easy enough to do).
> Less than 1% of all mythtv users use that classic theme (0.8%, 60 users),
> and the Mythbuntu theme (the one with the changes that were "universally
> hated") is used by 50X more users
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Don't forget option #3 - they just stop using it without posting about it.
;)

In either case, I don't understand the "if you don't like it, fix it"
response to people that are just trying to figure out how it works.
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