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Another black hole
01-01-2016, 08:30 PM
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RE: Another black hole
(01-01-2016 07:27 PM)Dave Hicks Wrote:  I don't believe that any of um… whoever it is… who develops myBB makes any claims to be a "power" of any sort and I have no idea if they classify themselves as even "western". They seem to have a fairly typical free software attitude, ie: if you like this stuff - great! If not - enjoy what you prefer!

Last year I used Thunderbird for about 10 months but it kept hanging on me (and sometimes losing data) at random times ranging from hours to weeks. I was hoping they would fix it "soonish" until I found a discussion from 2002 asking when they would finally fix this "long-standing bug". Nonetheless a lot of reviews/lists call Thunderbird one of the best email clients.

As mentioned before, last time I looked, we had one user who used the threaded mode by default. It didn't seem to get much attention when I brought this up on the myBB forum. In fact when I try to google around for it more broadly, I notice that outside of myBB forums, most of the links to threaded mode and bugs in threaded mode are from… this forum - which suggests that the percentage of threaded mode users is very small - quite likely well-below the radar for them.

So, they’ll fix it when they fix it… or not. As far as I know they do not read this forum. (Which might actually be good since some free SW developers don't respond well to pestering.)

From the HP forum point of view, I could remove the threaded view. But since we only had the one user, I didn't remove it because he could just not use it if he doesn't like it. I also considered removing the delete feature but since users of delete greatly outnumber users of the threaded mode, this didn’t seem wise.

Dave;
You explained that well. My only 2 cents would be: If I were the only one out of 3700 user/members that prefer one feature over another, I wouldn't be lobbying to erase or change the other 3699 people's choice. I'd just be happy that I had the option to use the setting that I like too.
Well, that's not completely correct. I have been known to take out an RPN calculator and show people "look how easy this is without parentheses and an equals key". -db
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Another black hole - walter b - 12-20-2015, 05:57 PM
RE: Another black hole - Marcus von Cube - 12-20-2015, 07:07 PM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 12-21-2015, 01:23 PM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 12-21-2015, 05:52 PM
RE: Another black hole - TASP - 12-20-2015, 08:13 PM
RE: Another black hole - d b - 12-21-2015, 06:09 PM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 12-21-2015, 06:19 PM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 12-21-2015, 06:37 PM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 12-22-2015, 06:25 AM
RE: Another black hole - EdS2 - 12-22-2015, 09:55 AM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 12-22-2015, 10:05 AM
RE: Another black hole - ElectroDuende - 12-25-2015, 01:40 AM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 01-01-2016, 02:51 PM
RE: Another black hole - Dave Hicks - 01-01-2016, 07:27 PM
RE: Another black hole - d b - 01-01-2016 08:30 PM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 01-03-2016, 10:14 AM
RE: Another black hole - Don Shepherd - 01-03-2016, 11:42 AM
RE: Another black hole - Gerald H - 01-03-2016, 11:14 AM
RE: Another black hole - walter b - 03-02-2016, 03:57 PM



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