After scrolling though many comments, there seems to be an energy similar to the very topic at hand (which isn't so crazy). First off, as a developer who has (at the very least) touched over 100 different languages (compiled, interpreted, whatever, you name it), I can say that for me personally, if a user has a suggestion for improvement, I'm all ears. Outside critiques and suggestions should not be corralled by the complexity of implementation. Anyone who argues otherwise is naive in my opinion. Not stupid, naive. Please don't twist my words or intention there!
It's very easy as a developer to power through creating a "thing", which the MVP (minimum viable product) and fluff features, as well as everything in-between, and miss some usability bullet points or even expected functionality. Some users might not care about those things, perhaps they never even use functionality that is missing (queue X-Files theme song). What matters is, the validity of a suggestion. If a user writes up a detailed explanation of an improvement or quality-of-life suggestion, and it's good, that is free and powerful. We should be thankful, and I'd go so far as to say we should shun the jerks that foster negativity towards that type of communication within our users' communities.
There is a certain level of user, surfer, whatever you want to call them, on the internet nowadays that is far too selfish for the good of us all. They have to be right, they have to be first, if it wasn't their idea, it sucks. If you disagree with them, you're a bigot or a troll. It's a waste of bandwidth. It's inefficient. It's my opinion that these types make up a good brunt of the naysayers that are in the DIMSS class, with only small amount of intelligent and valid types taking up the rest of the pie graph.
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After scrolling though many comments, there seems to be an energy similar to the very topic at hand (which isn't so crazy). First off, as a developer who has (at the very least) touched over 100 different languages (compiled, interpreted, whatever, you name it), I can say that for me personally, if a user has a suggestion for improvement, I'm all ears. Outside critiques and suggestions should not be corralled by the complexity of implementation. Anyone who argues otherwise is naive in my opinion. Not stupid, naive. Please don't twist my words or intention there! It's very easy as a developer to power through creating a "thing", which the MVP (minimum viable product) and fluff features, as well as everything in-between, and miss some usability bullet points or even expected functionality. Some users might not care about those things, perhaps they never even use functionality that is missing (queue X-Files theme song). What matters is, the validity of a suggestion. If a user writes up a detailed explanation of an improvement or quality-of-life suggestion, and it's good, that is free and powerful. We should be thankful, and I'd go so far as to say we should shun the jerks that foster negativity towards that type of communication within our users' communities. There is a certain level of user, surfer, whatever you want to call them, on the internet nowadays that is far too selfish for the good of us all. They have to be right, they have to be first, if it wasn't their idea, it sucks. If you disagree with them, you're a bigot or a troll. It's a waste of bandwidth. It's inefficient. It's my opinion that these types make up a good brunt of the naysayers that are in the DIMSS class, with only small amount of intelligent and valid types taking up the rest of the pie graph.