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by Arathorn 1085 days ago
Agreed that the stuck notification problems with threads is a real embarrassment. However, I wouldn't give up on the whole project over one nasty class of bugs (which i am very hopeful we're close to nailing...)
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Why not? One nasty class of bugs can make any project entirely unusable. In business it's all it takes to make me use your competitor over you.

As a dev you need to not fall into the trap of lumping users problems and faults off onto your own scale of what is or isn't important. This will ruin your business. You as the dev/on the inner circle have bias to what you think is or isn't important. If you disregard something as small but your users are like yea it's small but it's a major problem that makes the platform unusable your gonna drop users quicker than you can blink all the while asking yourself why?

Dangerous position, be wary of judging your clients problems importance on your own scale. Matrix will fail with that attitude. You won't focus on what your consumers want.

As I said, we're close to nailing the problem, and the element web team has literally been working on nothing else for weeks.

I have no clue why you think we're disregarding it; it drives me nuts too.