I think it's unreasonable to expect feedback on an app just because you put it out there.
It's a fact that most people only do this if there's problem. And I mean a serious problem (your darn program X made my monitor explode...
)
Unfortunate, but it's human nature.
Likewise, download volumes don't necessarily mean anything. As already stated many people (myself included) will D/L stuff just to see what it does (it sure
sounds interesting), or if it's useful. If not, it gets deleted without comment (or in my case, stored forever just in case...
). If it does work, the user may quite happily use it at the exclusion of all else without ever letting you know how good it is - but they will tell their friends and colleagues
The important thing here is that this isn't a reflection on you as a developer or on the app in question.
If you want feedback you should probably ask for it in an appropriate forum (I won't limit that to DC, though it's probably an excellent place to start) before you release it into the wild
Perhaps we could even establish a pool of willing crash test dummies, or a new forum (test and feedback?) to do this for developers on an ongoing basis?
Having said all that -- I do think DC should take *extremely* seriously our responsibility to be a site where authors can get useful feedback and encouragement for their work (especially freeware authors since commercial authors have other resources and rewards at their disposal). So I think we (and I) have let you down a bit
-mouser
I don't think this is a 'failing' of DC, I think many here already take the opportunity to assess and offer feedback when asked
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i'm afraid that both scripts - your's and skwire's will end up as identical twins. it'd be nice if there was a different approach, maybe in addition to trimming some rules-based renaming suggestions could be added.
-lanux128 (March 18, 2009, 07:44 PM)