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[RealAlHazred]

New update on the failed KoDT KS. Mr. Whitman is saying DVDs have been shipped, and to reply to his update with their contact information if they didn't get one. I haven't seen anything yet.

Which I read and then immediately assumed he's compiling a mailing list for future marketing purposes... except he'd already have that, I think, from earlier?

Man, KS failures have made me really overly suspicious.

 

[Ryujin]

New update on the failed KoDT KS. Mr. Whitman is saying DVDs have been shipped, and to reply to his update with their contact information if they didn't get one. I haven't seen anything yet.

Which I read and then immediately assumed he's compiling a mailing list for future marketing purposes... except he'd already have that, I think, from earlier?

Man, KS failures have made me really overly suspicious.

That's more of a "Whit" Whitman failure, than a Kickstarter failure. I don't know what he'd be shipping as, as far as I'm aware, shooting was never completed on the KotDT show. One of my friends took about an hour to figure out how to fulfill Whitman's "Pencil Dice" Kickstarters.

Or maybe I'm thinking of "Spinward Traveller", which was another soaking of backers.

EDIT - Yes, I've got them backward. KotDT was the one that Whitman claimed to have sent all shot footage, which turned out to be incomplete and mixed (some quite low res) files of, and Jolly and Ben Dobbins had to try and make sense out of. At that point he'd essentially washed his hands of the whole thing and was doing nothing towards completion.

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[Velderan]

"I don't want to argue about it, so here's 10 pages of rehashed arguments that were made in another thread that probably was locked for these same arguments getting nowhere."

 

[Umbran]

Which is kinda hilarious given the other poster’s absolute love of all things tech and “improvement.”

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You seem to have forgotten that using this thread for recognizably calling out individuals is against the rules that keep this thread open.

Unless you want to get threadbanned, don't do this again.

 

[Umbran]

Mmm, depending on who runs/governs the library, I'd say its a poor use of resources, or they got taken to the cleaners by a bad software developer.

It isn't like librarians are often also UX-experts.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

If enshittification is when a business does it for profit, what's it called when say for example the public library changes their website to make it harder to look for something?

I was about to make the easy joke about government.

But honestly, given everything (Snarf waves arms in the air frantically), that's not cool. Public libraries are a bastion of civic society, and deserve support, not easy mockery or scorn.

Have you asked anyone at the library about the change? Maybe there is a reason for it.


A while back, there was a local government that posted videos of all their public meetings. One day, all the videos were removed. People were outraged, assumed that there was a conspiracy, that the government was hiding things, etc. But no, that wasn't it. What happened was that a frequent plaintiff ... I'm not going to go there, but if you know, you know ... filed a lawsuit against the government, because the videos were posted without captions. And since the government didn't have the money to comply with captioning videos, they removed them. I assume this is less of a problem now with the advance in technology, but it shows that sometimes there is a reason that people aren't aware of for changes.

 

[prabe]

I still remember when my dad got the newer Microsoft Office suite several years ago. I was talking to him on the phone, and he was saying how great it was and how much he liked it and what a great job Microsoft did. Then he said, "The only thing I can't figure out is how to open a file."

MS had moved all that stuff to the ribbon. He couldn't find it without me explaining it.

That was not an example of improved functionality. And yet I still saw many articles thinly veiled advertisements in trade journals extolling the ribbon's nonexistent virtues.

Since they introduced the ribbon to Office, I have been convinced that moving to a UI that ate up vertical screen space at the same time as monitors were becoming less square--and mostly in landscape orientation--was not a brilliant idea.

 

[Ryujin]

Since they introduced the ribbon to Office, I have been convinced that moving to a UI that ate up vertical screen space at the same time as monitors were becoming less square--and mostly in landscape orientation--was not a brilliant idea.

Microsoft has been trying to turn Windows into a Mac OS style appearance for a couple of decades. I hate Mac OS.

 

[trappedslider]

I was about to make the easy joke about government.

But honestly, given everything (Snarf waves arms in the air frantically), that's not cool. Public libraries are a bastion of civic society, and deserve support, not easy mockery or scorn.

Have you asked anyone at the library about the change? Maybe there is a reason for it.

I'm guessing it was part of the over all update they did to their website a few years back, this changed happened before I moved as well so the site has been like it is currently for at least a year or two. The old website was just easier for me to find the new books. But like i said I was mainly wanting to find the title of a book.

As for MS Word...after I got my MS specialist for Word 16, it went downhill

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I'm guessing it was part of the over all update they did to their website a few years back, this changed happened before I moved as well so the site has been like it is currently for at least a year or two. The old website was just easier for me to find the new books. But like i said I was mainly wanting to find the title of a book.

As for MS Word...after I got my MS specialist for Word 16, it went downhill

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