Deecey posted at 5:50PM Sun, 23 June 2019 - #4354323

Most of the "real criticisms" were voiced in the forums, where posts get buried and lost, and devs have to wade through a lot of unnecessary commentary to get to the posts they really need to see. SM had "official" channels in place to communicate issues, and they are more apt to be noticed if those channels are used instead of posting in forums.

I have no doubt that it must have been hard to fish out relevant criticisms, but to me it feels that their construction didn't really work, considering the situation now. I often had contact with people on the inside, but I was craving feedback of some sort. I have no doubt I will have overstepped my bounds several times, but without knowing where I could help, its easy to just shoot off in all directions. Now obviously, who am I to expect those busy guys to take time to respond to me? I just feel that making a details figure and running into some mad issues, some which really did affect Poser and actually affected change, does kind of warrant some kind of ongoing dialog, and it would have helped if they had flat out told me to back off and stop wasting their time. I don't think highly of myself, I just really give a sh-t (still kinda do).

It also helps to keep the communications focused to one issue at a time, and to keep the explanation as brief as possible to start. If more info is needed to reproduce the issue they will ask.

Absolutely, but there were just so many issues that were interconnected, as you probably already know. it was hard for me to stay focused on one thing, regarding what needed fixing in Poser. This is also something I had to learn the hard way. I may spout all kinds of ideas, but at the end of the day this is something that management would have to organize.

And, for the record, there were at least six people on the original dev and support team that I can think of who actually used Poser. Unknown on the new team.

I'd have to take your word for it because I heard very differently.

"The fool is not the one that does something foolish, but the one that does nothing at all."