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I once updated a client's email address on a site to be their new one. It was a small change. There are some small changes.
by IChrisI 10y ago
I once updated a client's email address on a site to be their new one.
It was a small change.
There are some small changes.
- janwillemb 10y agoTrue, but the point of the article is that some small changes tend to grow into not-so-small changes on closer inspection, and that they take hours instead of minutes.
- ankit84 10y agoSaying a "issue is small", depends on someone's knowledge. * An individual's knowledge can be limited based on his technical experience. * his knowledge about product features
- jiminycrickit 10y agoFirst you say there are no small changes if quality matters. Then you say it depends on one's knowledge. Either the quality of your communication doesn't matter or you need to make some changes. Please help me to understand which you mean.
- dagw 10y agoI once got exactly the same request and said "sure that will only take a few minutes" . I turned out that half the places where the e-mail appeared was in images. So instead of a simple search-replace job it suddenly turned into either a Photoshop job or a completely redesign non-trivial parts of the site job.
- iplaw 10y agoIt's unfortunate that anti-spam strategies introduce so many inefficiencies into our daily lives, from developers to end users.
- FroshKiller 10y agoYou should take care not to confuse a small amount of work you have to do as part of a change with the scope of the change itself. Changing email addresses implies a lot.
- accountyaccount 10y agoDid you replace all instances across an entire site? Were there any forms on the site using that email address? Is that email address used anywhere else? What about people who are trying to still use the old email address? I know you're trying to make a point — but I've seen instances where a perceived "simple email change" has actually caused minor service gaps. "One little thing" at best is generally "a handful of little things."