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by always_good 3120 days ago
You're the type of user I learned to avoid once I started shipping software.

You think in a major internal overhaul that the old interface is just a matter of building a quick "[ ] Old, [X] New" radio button dialog.

And then you make a major, disproportional stink like how you've written 20 comments in this submission. Zero awareness through and through, and it's just not worth engaging with you beyond saying "well, I don't think the product is for you." -- A conclusion you seem uninterested in figuring out yourself.

I don't think you have the slightest clue about how hard it is to just keep old crap around when you're trying to evolve software. Else you'd know that either (A) it's not worth it or (B) the ship is simply sailing in a direction that you don't care about, so there's no point whining on the internet.

At some point you need to leave the movie theater so that others can enjoy the show. Leaving 20 comments in this submission just shows that it's an emotional thing for you. Time to move on. It's just a web browser.
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Nomentatus 3119 days ago
I love the movie line, and I too long ago learned that user feedback about software I'd written could be nonsense or pure ego, BUT - I think you missed the "other elderly" point at the heart of the complaint. I'm over sixty and I'm constantly stunned by how computer illiterate other sixty-year olds are (and yes sometimes thoroughly flummoxed by UI changes myself.) If you're twenty such changes are trivial to overcome - you just ask your buddies what they did. Above sixty - your friends have no idea. Google usually isn't a solution for such general questions, either, particularly if a "magic term" is needed that they won't know. The young turk UI programmers, seem to assume everyone has better than 20-20 eyesight, single-pixel hand-eye coordination and a lot of background knowledge and UI intuitions that elderly people don't have - because they may update their equipment and software only every decade or two!

I suspect the answer may be a secondary, vastly simpler interface that can be maintained as a fallback for the elderly, without breaking the bank.

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