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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8365471" data-attributes="member: 177">So, one really big question - how many concurrent and potentially interacting users does Pathbuilder actually support?&nbsp; I'm going to guess that whatever it is,&nbsp; D&amp;D Beyond supports one or two orders of magnitude more, and scale is a big deal in software.That said...&quot;The evidence&quot; being... pretty paltry stuff, to be honest.I come at this from two perspectives, one professional, the other just a good idea....1) The vast and overwhelming proportion of the people in software are actually bright, competent, and at any given moment are doing the best they can to make the right decisions with what they know at the time.&nbsp; Unfortunately, what they know is usually minimal, and the world changes around them in quickly in complicated and unpredictable ways.&nbsp; 2) The Golden Rule applies.&nbsp; Whenever you decide that some provider is just an idiot, you are basically asking the world to look at your work from the outside in the same way - so, when you make what seems like a minor, innocuous decision that may disappoint some customers, someone out there is saying you are completely incompetent nincompoops.&nbsp; For everyone who says, &quot;Well MY work is so much harder, and we do it better,&quot; perhaps that is true.&nbsp; But perhaps it is less true than you think, and perhaps it has not always been true.&nbsp; If I were a betting man, a bet that there were some really upset people that could be found looking through the customer contact records would be a pretty solid one to make. And every one of those upset people thinks of your work like you're thinking of D&amp;D Beyond right now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8365471, member: 177"] So, one really big question - how many concurrent and potentially interacting users does Pathbuilder actually support? I'm going to guess that whatever it is, D&D Beyond supports one or two orders of magnitude more, and scale is a [I]big deal[/I] in software. That said... "The evidence" being... pretty paltry stuff, to be honest. I come at this from two perspectives, one professional, the other just a good idea.... 1) The vast and overwhelming proportion of the people in software are actually bright, competent, and at any given moment are doing the best they can to make the right decisions with what they know at the time. Unfortunately, what they know is usually minimal, and the world changes around them in quickly in complicated and unpredictable ways. 2) The Golden Rule applies. Whenever you decide that some provider is just an idiot, you are basically asking the world to look at your work from the outside [I]in the same way[/I] - so, when you make what seems like a minor, innocuous decision that may disappoint some customers, someone out there is saying you are completely incompetent nincompoops. For everyone who says, "Well [I]MY[/I] work is so much harder, and we do it better," perhaps that is true. But perhaps it is less true than you think, and perhaps it has not always been true. If I were a betting man, a bet that there were some really upset people that could be found looking through the customer contact records would be a pretty solid one to make. And every one of those upset people thinks of your work like you're thinking of D&D Beyond right now. [/QUOTE]

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