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The tyranny of the vocal minority. It's a race to the bottom.
by retox 10y ago
The tyranny of the vocal minority.
It's a race to the bottom.
- euyyn 10y agoSo an opinion with enough upvotes to get to the front page of a site where power users lurk is "the tyranny of the vocal minority"?
- Jare 10y agoYep, their power-user-ness or the fact that they frequent a particular enthusiast forum does not make them any less of a minority when the software we're talking about is used by many millions of people (the silent majority).
- r00fus 10y agoDo you think it actually makes sense to keep the backspace as "page-back"? It's literally lost me dozens of form entries over the years (some of which were very hard to restore). Thankfully on OSX/Safari, this legacy behavior/cruft is not present.
- retox 10y agoSeems like change for change sake, like so many of Google changes. Unilaterally changing 20 year behaviour that effects less than half one percent of users isn't an improvement it's rearranging chairs on the titanic. Also, Lazarus is an old plugin for Firefox that saves forms between sessions/refreshes. Too bad goog want to capture new users at any expense. If it doesn't work because the latest hotness is js forms that's a problem with webdevs.
- chc 10y agoDo you really feel like the majority of PC users want backspace to navigate in a web browser? I seriously doubt the majority have ever intentionally used that shortcut. It wouldn't even surprise me if it were more often used unintentionally than intentionally.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoMost users don't want shit. They take what is given to them and learn to use it. Which means every feature you remove from your software is one less thing your users can do now. Good if you're lazy, but the point of software should be to empower people to do more.