<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Lots of users think 2.1 is pretty great, despite the loud voices that<br>complain (remember, most people won't say anything at all if they don't<br>have complaints).<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for your work, keep it up, but sometimes try to put yourselves in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the shoes of those plain users, they do not necessaryly see the world as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">you do.<br></blockquote><br>I don't want to guess what you're insinuating at since I probably<br>wouldn't like it. I really hate that statement "try to put yourselves in<br>the shoes of plain users", which suggests that the bending over<br>backwards that we do to communicate with users (like on this long<br>thread), to add features that "plain" users have asked for and want and<br>enjoy, and so on is all == NULL. The reputation and track record we got<br>of listening to and being responsive to our users was not from lack of<br>empathy. It'd be nice if you'd wake up and see that instead of throwing<br>out this baseless claim.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I'd just like to add one thing: we are users too. I use amarok at work, at home, wherever i can. i use amarok a lot more than i develop on it, these days. i dont think there is this enormous chasm between "developers" and "user" that involve two completely different use-cases.</div><div><br></div><div>leo</div></body></html>