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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Oh and you are the elected representative of the masses are you?
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Nope. It's the opinion I've developed through reading the message boards, seeing responses to peoples posts and using the application. The responses to people appear to generally be "Do it our way", not "Good idea, but I don't know when we'd be able to get to it". Maybe it's just me, but having to continually reeducate users on how to use an application says that there's a gap that isn't being bridged between the user and the software. To me, if the focus was on being more flexible to users needs then the responses would be entirely different. Users wanting to do something like sort last-name-first is a reasonable thing, but it sounds like because it's not something you want to do, it's not part of the application. And again, there's no expectation that you or anyone else is going to provide any type of functionality that anyone other than yourself wants. I've simply said that it's unfortunate that there isn't more of a focus on creating the flexibility to let people do things the way they'd like, Slippery Slope Fallacy aside.
With that, I'm done because this went exactly where I saw it going when I said I shouldn't have posted.