jono_x

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   by jono_x 14y ago

   > That's a fair point, but also true is "don't let your product stagnate by keeping it familiar and unchanging". People get bored with similarity and want new shiny things. I disagree. Users want something new if their current software
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   by jono_x 14y ago

   I'm banned? (My posts were showing up for me, so I had no idea.) Did get banned because I broke a rule I wasn't aware of? Or is it that a newly registered account needs to be approved by a moderator before the comments show up?
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   by jono_x 14y ago

   > "There's no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now haver to relearn." Yeah, I guess I was overstating the case for rhetorical purposes. I don't think there's never a UI change that
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   by jono_x 14y ago

   Hi Smacktoward, I'm the author of the post and I agree with everything you said here. How to reach out to new users while keeping your existing users happy is one of the oldest and biggest problems in software development. There's no perfec
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   by jono_x 14y ago

   > I do think that they go half the distance sometimes with their privacy measures - "Do Not Track" is unchecked by default, and Firefox accepts and keeps "Third Party Cookies" until they expire. There's a good reason "Do Not Track" is u
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   by jono_x 14y ago

   Hi, author of the post here. I never anticipated HN-style traffic on my personal blog. My poor lighttpd server couldn't handle it. I just rebooted; should work now.