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Originally Posted by Barbara1955
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Some people aren't even happy when they're complaining!
I may not agree with the level of complaint, but I'll support the right to complain if helps keep Kobo on their toes. There have been a somewhat embarrassing number of new bugs introduced over the years while old bugs continue to plague the user. I'm not singling kobo out in this, but it is a general trend and can be seen from the likes of Redmond and Cupertino, as well. The problem as I see it, is an ever greater reliance on outside or underlying code and libraries which form the basis for so many systems and are almost never properly understood or debugged even by those who created it, let alone the poor saps that must depend on it as foundation.
I never participated in "large" software projects written or maintained by multitudes of programmers, but I did perform the systems analysis & design, GUI design and programming, main and multi-threaded realtime C programming and all bugfixes for my PC based batching systems which ran around 20,000 lines of code overall -done in the other 40 hours of my 80 hour weeks back in the day.(The first 40 a week were spent maintaining existing systems in the field and designing the electronic hardware for the new systems.) This entailed my dependence on a GUI package and a multi-threading library with semaphores package running over DOS. I would have been somewhat mortified to release some of the doozies I've seen from what I can only assume is a team of programmers and few if any testers... One of my biggest problems was tracking down issues within the source code for the GUI package I bought back then. Not my code, but ultimately my problem. So I can commiserate if a similar situation exists, but I'd still like to see better beta testing done before releases are made to the general public. Frankly, at least one release a year should be devoted solely to tying up all existing loose ends... Fix what you have before you "innovate" on top of faulty foundations before you waste more time predicated on faulty code.
IMNSHO...