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SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - Legacy Interface Discussion (2004-2011)
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To: Lane3 who wrote (3076)12/31/2004 3:24:55 PM
From: SI Bob  Read Replies (2) of 6035
 
In the "stripped-down" version I'm implementing (and still working on), what I'm trying to accomplish is the most simple and elegant approach, avoiding complication as much as possible. Even as it was before, with 3 variations, (8, actually -- two possibilities for each of 3 choices is 2^3), it still wasn't everything everyone wanted.

It never could be, no matter how complicated and expensive I were willing to make it.

So I'm trying to make this a much-simplified version that works well for most people's needs. Making Ignore simply a 2-position switch for each user. They (and their writings) exist or they don't exist. Simple. And having a "master switch" that effectively turns the whole Ignore on or off easily without affecting the individual switches.

This, like nearly anything software-related, is something where it's impossible for any approach to please everyone. You ask 100 people and it's likely 50 of them will prefer the complexity of the old version and 50 will prefer the on/off simplicity of the current one, especially with the elegance of things like Ignore being treated as a two-way street and ignored posts being easily read without a lot of hoop-jumping.

iHub has a Filtering system that works nearly identically to SI's old Ignore system.

Know what one thing I'm most hounded about to "fix" on Investors Hub? Simplifying the Filtering system so it works like it does here.

Personally, I really love the new Ignore system, but my opinion doesn't count because:

1. I don't use Ignore and would never remotely consider using it for any reason.

2. I love it for possibly the wrong reasons. I love elegant programming and this is some of the most elegant programming I've ever personally done.

But I'm well aware of the fact that something can be extremely elegant and utterly useless.

I'm going to finish the simplified/elegant version and let it run for a while (months) before deciding if it just doesn't really meet people's needs.

But I betcha if I make it work like the old system, the complaints that I broke a very good methodology (the current one) will be very numerous. I really do hear a LOT more complaint's about iHub's relatively complex status quo than I do about ours.
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