Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Sadly, we've had a disturbing number of people who have expected that, and demanded that, generally with insulting Kovid and the other devs thrown in for good measure. As Manichean said, we've gotten a bit paranoid as a result. Possibly more than a bit, in my case.
There are, very rarely, people calibre doesn't work for. There are, likewise, people Windows doesn't work for (probably more people, percentage-wise). I have to wonder if those people post on Microsoft forums and demand that Windows be made to do things their way, not Microsoft's way. Given the number of people involved it wouldn't surprise me -- get enough people and any kind of behavior you can name will surface -- but most of them, I think, realize that Windows is what it is, and it's not going to change because Joe Schmoe dislikes something about it. The big difference, of course, being that Joe Schmoe does not have the freedom to just open up the Windows source code and change it to however he likes, whereas with calibre, not only can he do exactly that, but there are instructions on how to go about it.
We get a disturbing number of people here who ignore the fact that calibre organizes books, not files, and want it changed to organize files instead of books. I always wonder why they want to work with files -- shouldn't they be doing physical disc reads and writes instead? After all, files are too much abstraction! But they've gotten used to using the filesystem for half-assed metadata, and they want to continue doing that but still call it calibre (I've never gotten a straight answer as to where a book by Smith & Jones should be filed, or a book with both historical and fantasy stories, or an SF mystery, or in fact any book that fits two categories however they define them should go). Why, I'm not sure.
If someone explains a problem, we'll find them a solution. The content server, in your case. But all too often, they just show up, insult us, insult the devs, and insult calibre (I kid you not), and then claim we're not being helpful when nobody wants to be insulted anymore. That's scary in a disturbing number of ways.
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