On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote:
> On 24/05/2013 12:15, Nick Whitelegg wrote: > > > I don't regularly use iD myself (JOSM user), but, on behalf of its > developers: negative comments like this are unhelpful and denigrate the > vast amount of hard work that has gone into producing the editor. If you > don't like it, complain about it to your friends in private, change the > code, but do not slag it off on a public mailing list! > > > You think the developers are above criticism? A public forum is *exactly* > where they should be aired. The creators came here & said "look what we've > made, isn't it fantastic" & some of us have pointed out that, actually, no > it isn't that good. For them to say "OK, we've made a mistake, why don't > you fix it?" is arrogant. Developers should not be put on pedestals. > > As has been pointed out there's a few reasons why it not good enough to be > the default editor. Another being it's lack of relation information which > will lead to them being split/deleted. There needs to be, at least, some > kind of warning note that a selected way contains a relation. > The panning/background refresh speed has improved slightly in Firefox, but > not sure if that's Id's or FF's doing. > > I think it needs pointing out, yet again, that we are all volunteers, all > putting in time & effort for the good of the project. > There is a difference between constructive criticism and "This is the worst thing ever!" which is both unhelpful and objectively false. Toby
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