I disagree. I think that the old management *was* 'broke'. Having all of
the metadata inside the script is the right way to do it.
On 2/3/2011 3:07 PM, y0himba wrote:
> I gotta sound off on this one. I am completely for the old style script
> management. It worked, and worked well. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Sargent
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [greasemonkey-users] Re: Old style script management
>
> On 2/3/2011 12:39 PM, Anthony Lieuallen wrote:
>>> Also, I update any of these scripts I now have to remember to copy my
>>> old set of includes and paste them into the new one.
>> This was always true, even before this change.
>>
>>
>> Ultimately, though, the reason we made this change is that we have
>> well over three million one-day active users. I've seen perhaps two
>> dozen complaints about the new UI. If we inconvenience ~ 3000
>> (rounding _way_ up) people, but make ~3,000,000 people's experience
>> better, that's a 99.9% success rate. I judge that to be a better
>> product.
>>
>> This change was necessary not primarily for the UI, but to make the
>> rest of the metadata updating work. Now you can add a @require or
>> @resource at any time, and it works.
>>
> I'm pretty sure previously you could edit a script, and not lose the
> includes and excludes that you had added via the script manager.
>
> Also, that "success rate" is bogus. Problems won't start cropping up
> until people install updates to existing scripts, which could be weeks
> or months down the road.
>
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