Tue, 30 Apr 2002
Big problems in userland
I couldn't get to subhonker6 again this morning, it was dead yesterday morning, and half the weekend. I'm gonna look at movable type soon too. Despite Dave Winer's assertions that you can host the site without Userland's server, and the fact that I'm doing exactly that, my page still hits subhonker6, I assume because of the static sites image.
I'm beginning to agree with a lot of the folks making noise about the bugs in Userland's stuff, Radio in particular. I notice that the discussion group at radio.userland.com now has quite a few entries that have several reads but no replies. When people come to realize that the product is not well-documented, they, like me, resort to the discusion group. Unfortunately, at least one of them has had to resort to changing his posts to something ridiculous like this. I haven't resorted to that yet but I can't blame the guy, he's getting responses. My post, however, goes unanswered.
Userland's approach of not documenting the more complex parts of the product because they're afraid some newbie will hurt themselves leaves a lot to be desired, IMHO. It's obvious that the audience for the product is a lot broader than that now. I appreciate Dave Winer's creativity and forward-vision; however, the day to day running of the company is probably better left to a bean-counting-organizational-control-freak.
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