Maybe the experiments with gadgets.* in production should be rolled back now that all these issues have come up.
On Jun 11, 1:14 pm, Vision Jinx <[email protected]> wrote: > I couldn't agree more! This is very aggravating not only for > developers but users also. We (as developers) get flooded with emails > from upset users and things break way to often and get addressed way > to late. Plus watching our user count plummet when things frequently > break. > > Too much of our precious and valuable time is spent trying to address > user complaints and debug gadgets issues (while our concerns are > ignored), when our time should (and could) be spent on other things > and the ROI is usually not worth it. Additionally, we can't deploy a > fix as only some users are affected and trying to debug issues when > you don't see them is even worse, yet the user complaints indicate > there is definitely an issue there. > > Was this not the whole point of the sandbox? To test things first > before pushing it live to the production version? Plus, this topic of > some notice first has come up so many times yet we are always left > hanging in the dark and dealing with issues. > > As mentioned above this is more or a novelty toy (playpen) then a real > platform us developers can take seriously and depend on. If we did > this with our sites and apps we would be laughed out of existence and > our credibility as a developer seriously questioned. Come on Google > help us here, it is hard to support a platform and API that > continually does this to it's devoted developers. > > Regards, > Vision Jinx > > On Jun 11, 8:18 am, Matt Kruse <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jun 11, 2:55 am, String <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There's a real feeling of abandonment on the forum, that Google has > > > broken our gadgets in the production environment - with no warning > > > before the fact, and next-to-no feedback from official channels after > > > the fact. > > > Indeed, it is extremely frustrating. But this has been the pattern of > > iGoogle development all along, I guess it's just how it works. > > > It seems like these things are so badly planned. Some points: > > > 1) Some warning of big changes like this would be nice. Even just a > > post in here. > > > 2) Give developers the chance to opt-in to a beta testing program with > > their gadgets first! > > > 3) Seemingly applying the new rendering code at random is the worst > > idea! Half my gadgets break, half don't. Some break for me, but not > > others. I have no way of knowing why, because I didn't even know that > > the v2 was in place. I can't change my gadget code because not every > > user is seeing the v2 changes. This kind of random roll-out of changes > > just seems terrible. > > > 4) When you break functionality, please fix it ASAP! Do you know that > > us developers start getting emails from annoyed users when you break > > our gadgets in production? It's such a hassle. It takes time away from > > me. > > > 5) Please do better testing. I can't believe that simple functionality > > like _toggle() was broken. > > > 7) When problems are pointed out, please give us the chance to revert > > gadgets back to the old renderer, rather than just continuing to have > > a broken gadgets for days or weeks. > > > 8) For some of us, iGoogle is the hub of our information feed from the > > web. When it breaks, it's quite frustrating. When we continue to see > > things change and our stuff broken, it's a sign that maybe we're > > depending too much on a fragile technology. iGoogle feels more like a > > playground than a platform. > > > 9) Without user-created gadgets, iGoogle would be useless. Please > > respect your developers. > > > Hopefully future changes will be handled a little more smoothly. > > > Matt Kruse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
