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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8365308" data-attributes="member: 6801845">It never ceases to amaze me how simple people who never do software development think software development is.&nbsp; We used to joke about the (literal) napkin spec we got from the program director that wanted a &quot;simple&quot; feature.&nbsp; He thought it should take 15 minutes, half an hour tops to implement.&nbsp; It took a competent and dedicated resource 3 weeks.The rules are difficult to implement when you have to take into consideration every single permutation that might happen.&nbsp; Then you need to give practically instantaneous access to hundreds of thousands of characters while doing so seamlessly.&nbsp; Oh, and it all has to be reasonably idiot proof.&nbsp; In addition, development is only part of the issue.&nbsp; Before it's released you have to do quality testing which ... I can't even imagine.&nbsp; Every line of code you change, every database entry that gets tweaked has to be validated to ensure that it doesn't unexpectedly affect something else.So no, I'm not going to judge them.&nbsp; People greatly underestimate how complex their systems must be and I don't blame them for not wanting to support UA stuff any more.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8365308, member: 6801845"] It never ceases to amaze me how simple people who never do software development think software development is. We used to joke about the (literal) napkin spec we got from the program director that wanted a "simple" feature. He thought it should take 15 minutes, half an hour tops to implement. It took a competent and dedicated resource 3 weeks. The rules are difficult to implement when you have to take into consideration every single permutation that might happen. Then you need to give practically instantaneous access to hundreds of thousands of characters while doing so seamlessly. Oh, and it all has to be reasonably idiot proof. In addition, development is only part of the issue. Before it's released you have to do quality testing which ... I can't even imagine. Every line of code you change, every database entry that gets tweaked has to be validated to ensure that it doesn't unexpectedly affect something else. So no, I'm not going to judge them. People greatly underestimate how complex their systems must be and I don't blame them for not wanting to support UA stuff any more. [/QUOTE]

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