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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:23:00 +0200 |
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"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 14. April 2013, 10:24:18 schrieb Ryan Hill: |
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> > Personally I think that the entire idea of only displaying messages on the |
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> > first install is completely asinine. What exactly is the benefit? Were |
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> > users complaining that we were being too helpful and they'd like us to |
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> > hide important messages in random places? |
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> No. They are just not reading it when the only new and relevant message is |
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> drowned in repetitive spam. |
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So the solution is to not display them at all? New messages won't be printed |
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unless the maintainer uses REPLACING_VERSIONS, in which case you get exactly |
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the same behaviour as now, ie. "drowned in repetitive spam". All this does is |
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reduce the chance of the user ever seeing important information. If they |
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happen to miss it the first time they're SOL. Are cosmetics really a bigger |
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concern than keeping users informed? |
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