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by unbendable 2046 days ago
Slide #40

But, we are not Gnome:

  * No usage regressions

  * No feature removal
-> Too true, too true... Even if they have valid reasons for removing some features it puts me always off.
2 comments

> No usage regression.

I'm calling Bullshit on that. They said the exact same thing for the v2 -> v3 transition of VLC.

And then completely broke playback of my music collection, because the containing folders had square brackets in their name. eg "[2015]" or "[FLAC]"

VLC 2 worked fine with those folders. VLC 3 refuses to recognise music files in those folders. Because square bracket characters "aren't valid URL characters".

We're talking about folder names, not friggin URLs.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/19594

That was a regression right there, but they just ignored the problem and refused to fix it.

Grrrr.

That doesn't mean good. I think it is still possible to rate your own songs on iOS but there are so many hoops to jump that this is effectively a deprecated feature. He explicitly said it doesn't mean you will be able to reach these features easily.