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Software does not need to move at the speed of light, much less something like audacity which has a huge user base and hopes of staying useful for decades.
by pfortuny 5y ago
Software does not need to move at the speed of light, much less something like audacity which has a huge user base and hopes of staying useful for decades.
- masklinn 5y agoTelemetry has nothing to do with "moving at the speed of light", it has to do with discovering actual usage patterns. There's no requirement to move fast on telemetry. In fact you probably want to do the exact opposite, because you want large representative aggregates.
- majewsky 5y agoIf you want to discover actual usage patterns, there is a much more efficient way: Sit down with 10 users and observe them while doing their everyday work or while performing a predetermined set of tasks. This is even easier nowadays thanks to screen sharing, so you can even put a focus on getting a geographically and demographically diverse sample of users. From personal experience, I've always had more insights into actual usage patterns from sitting next to a random user for 30 minutes than I could have had from heaps and heaps of telemetry.