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>> And further, users shouldn't need to export because they should be able to do everything they needed from within the app. > That's just greed and extreme en
by speedplane 7y ago
>> And further, users shouldn't need to export because they should be able to do everything they needed from within the app.
> That's just greed and extreme entitlement dressed in UX clothes.
I understand the passion here, especially today, users should be able to control data the way the want. However, greed or lock-down was not a relevant factor (we already had APIs for bulk data). The resistance to the "export" button was motivated by a genuine curiosity as to why someone would want to do that, and to better understand their use case. If someone is exporting something, it's because they want to do something that we do not do. The resistance was not about letting go of control of the data, but rather losing sight of what our users wanted.
- bogdanoff_2 7y agoThe point is that you can't possible know what every single user will ever want to do. Thinking otherwise is entitlement.
- anoncake 7y agoNo, but not providing an export button increases the chance they'll tell you.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoOr just keep manually copy-pasting or printing, scanning and OCRing data from your system, wasting time and resources. People can go to great lengths working around software deficiencies before someone finally decides to mail the vendor.
- anoncake 7y agoWhy should the app support printing or copy&pasting into other applications? You aren't supposed to use anything else. Screenshots can be prevented using DRM. Linux users are hippies anyway so they don't have a job. People could still photograph the screen or transcribe the data manually. But I'm sure a legislative solution for this problem can be found. After all, you wouldn't download a CSV file. I hope this proposal won't be read by anyone insane enough not to see anything horribly wrong with it.
- dahauns 7y agoIn this case replace greed with hubris.