[DonHopkins]

Not just added, but headlined in their release announcement. Yet there was no "FOR USABILITY" section, and more than three years later, VLC 3.0.4 STILL has the same constellations of bugs and egregious usability issues.

I would also hazard a guess the mobile user is larger than the anime user base, and they're just as concerned with usability as the desktop users.

Are you seriously suggesting that there are people who believe that VLC needs to focus on anime more than usability?

Is it just you who feels this way, or can you point me towards some evidence of that, please? Because if you read the VLC bug reports and discussion group, and even this thread, you can see that there are a lot of people who agree with me that VLC needs to focus more on usability. Where are all these anime fans demanding VLC focus less on usability and more on supporting their anime fetish?

[bArray]

>Are you seriously suggesting that there are people who believe that VLC needs to focus on anime more than usability?

Either the Anime audience is better at filing bugs and chasing the up, or the developers favoured those tasks for some reason. Perhaps the UI guy is really slow or just missing entirely.

>Where are all these anime fans demanding VLC focus less on usability and more on supporting their anime fetish?

There aren't any. It's clearly not a trade-off on developer time. For an open source project, people work on what interests them the most.

Specifically in regards to "anime fetish" - who actually cares? What difference does it make if it is an Anime crowd, people who like watching 8k raw footage, people who want to watch 3D films or whatever. What does the specific reason for a video format being worked on bring to the table, other than the fact you clearly don't like it?

[DonHopkins]

I don't dislike a video format. I dislike terrible usability, and arrogant cliquish developers who refuse to even acknowledge there is a problem: not just fail to focus on it, but actually make ridiculous flippant insincere arguments that it's not a problem, in their consistent efforts to brush off repeated valid bugs reports that they get frequently from many different users, and steadfastly refuse to do anything about every single time.

And it's not a matter of anime fans being better at filing bugs. As I said, I filed some very detailed bugs, with step-by-step instructions to prove there was a problem, and they were flippantly dismissed and ignored.

At least Apple had the decency to acknowledge the universally held opinion that the QuickTime 4.0 player SUCKED, and they fixed.

[duskwuff]

Developers are not interchangeable, especially on open-source projects. The group of people who contribute their time to work on core multimedia features (like audio mixing or OpenGL shaders) has almost no overlap with the group of people who will work on UI/UX.