Comments on rbjottings: Feedback changes

I'm a lot happier now because I've got my old watc...

2008-04-24T07:39:00.000+01:00

I'm a lot happier now because I've got my old watchlist back and RS are at least trying to address people's concerns about searching for workarounds.
I think wer're back into "thanks for listening" territory.
I'll probably blog about this later.

@Aaron Ballman - Not fear mongering, I want the re...

2008-04-23T10:40:00.000+01:00

@Aaron Ballman - Not fear mongering, I want the re-brand.

@Anonymous -- LOL, that is the most ridiculous fea...

2008-04-22T23:11:00.000+01:00

@Anonymous -- LOL, that is the most ridiculous fear mongering I've seen yet. You can't post it to the forums for fear of being called to task on it, is more likely.

Just so you know RS is completely re-branding RB, ...

2008-04-22T22:41:00.000+01:00

Just so you know RS is completely re-branding RB, right down to the icon.
I can't post this on the forums as it would reveal my identity but I feel some people should know.

I think you should leave the conspiracy theories a...

2008-04-22T14:51:00.000+01:00

I think you should leave the conspiracy theories at the door. The old bug system still had open bugs from the 5.5 (and earlier) days! There was no way they were going to be able to clean it up and not piss people off. There are so many non-relevant bugs in the database that searching for anything in particular was a nightmare (in my opinion).

The new bug tracking system allows them to make a clean start. From what I've heard, FogBugz is one of the best and it has some extremely nice features that will help RS out in nailing down IDE bugs.

I do, however, agree that not being able to search the bug database is a bad idea. I would recommend that there be a public and private section with the public section being searchable. This would help restore some faith.

I would also have kept the old bug database around so people can still search and possibly vote on bugs though it sounds more and more like RS never paid attention to the feedback votes anyway.

Anyway, my 2 cents on it.

I just resigned from the beta team and have pretty...

2008-04-22T13:00:00.000+01:00

I just resigned from the beta team and have pretty much given up using realbasic.
Since moving to cocoa and .net I have seen how limited rb is. In fact I would go as far as to say the only thing it is good for is maintainting 1 code base for cross platform products.
I hope RS digs itself out of the hole it seems to be getting in and creates a product that I can use once again. Unfortunately, I just dont see that happening.