Thoughts on a Development-specific engagement

[Code-Jack]

@anton please see the post above from @Razor …
– This is exactly what I’ve meant three days ago in the other thread.
I quote myself from that thread, please read it line for line (especially the last textblock in it):

@Code-Jack

– I take the opportunity to say you something from my personal point of view:
I spent here hours every day in the forum; sometimes I write more then one BR per day. It costs me a lot time to record all these videos and to write detailed step by step instructions for the devs.
And this feels often … “strange” (hard for me to find the best fitting word in English), because many of the bugs are so obvious that I can’t even believe that the team does not already knows about them. — More then that: the essence of my six bug reports (with all these videos included) related to search could be condensed down to only one sentence:
“Simply try to use search in a real Space and you will see that it makes problems!”

Instead, I’ve spent hours to write al these reports and to record my screen again and again, until good videos resulted that I could include into the reports.

I can tell you, this effort feels really very very “strange”!
Quasi as if the devs don’t want to see the obvious issues, or as if nobody from the team really uses Anytype for real purposes.

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I simply can’t believe that Razor now asks for reports with examples!

1. It is IMPOSSIBLE that someone who really uses Anytype for real purposes, doesn’t already know about the OBVIOUS differences between the layout’s appearence on screen and the print result!
   – Simply print one real Page!!! In most normal cases you will see the differences!
   If not, put some elements more on that Page and print it again! Now you MUST see it, you can’t pretend the opposite!

2. It WAS ALREADY reported by me, more than a year ago!
   For unknown reasons, the old thread is tagged as “implemented” and moved into the cemetery!?!?!
   – But it isn’t solved or “implemented” at all!

3. I’m not the only person who has moaned again and again (in different threads) about the problems with printing and exporting.
   It should really be well known for everyone: each user, and even more for each team member!
   Someone who prints more then “Hello world” WILL know that we not get what we see on screen!

– Why on earth do I now need to create new reports with examples if most problems with print and PDF export are absolute obvious and also known for a long time?

It will cost me HOURS again:

1. to create good example documents that show each problem separated.
2. to write a separate report for each single problem.
3. to make screenshots and PDF exports.
4. to record good videos.

Why all that?

OK, OK – I want to be a good boy and play after your rules!
I will do what Razor asked for, even though I don’t understand that burden – we have here an obvious case that should (for years!) be well known for everyone!

I’ll do all that and I appreciate that Razor is at least willing to look what he can do!
But @anton , please also try to understand my point of view and how frustrating it often feels if team members, even devs, pretend to know nothing about well known longtime issues that are obvious and peeve each normal user nearly every day!

It is not only me. This is what also the other users have meant in the linked thread.
Please see my long text here as a constructive feedback that points exactly on the communication issue that us users here disturbs again and again.