John,
Everything you say is spot on. I must admit that my main concern is that Legacy is (and I assume they are) spending effort updating the ‘technical platform’ that Legacy runs on. We have heard numerous times (including from Legacy) that the platform is old technology. For example, that is always brought up in the context of adding additional character sets for foreign languages. I would think at the present time that is more important than individual feature improvements. (Although I do want my personal favorite downloading sources from FSFT, if RM can do it, so can Legacy). Using old technology will eventually make the program unusable on newer hardware/operating systems. Paul Gray From: John Lisle [mailto:leg...@johnlisle.com] Sent: April-09-15 12:18 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Chasing the market [was: Any Way to Mark a PERSON ...] Jay, Your (and my?) idea of what the market requires may be different from what Legacy's management feels is necessary. Several years ago, an aggressive effort was made to create international versions. That added greatly to its market. L7 added mapping, improved privacy, source writer, and several other features that were driven by market needs. L7.5 added FamilySearch support. Although this was at first needed to support their LDS customers, this is now used by many other users now that FamilySearch tree is open to all. L8 added shared events, live Potential Problem Alerts, auto checking for duplicates additions, improved media handling, auto date sorting of events and children as they are added, etc etc. - all features we use most every day. (Maybe not Shared events for TNG users... :-)) --> all of these were driven by serious requests from the user base and from competitive pressures. That is definition of market driven. I know that many of the changes we want require some major work on the Legacy infrastructure. That is happening. What you and I whine about most often are the small 10 cent changes that could make our lives easier as we go about our business. I would like to see an L8.1 that picks up a number of these changes. But, there are some changes, like the same-sex marriage one, that seems to need to have certain major infrastructure work done first. Shared events took years to come to fruition. Legacy wanted to do it right, and, mostly, I think they have. My hallucination is that when they can do same-sex relationships, it will be done in a classy manner. And most of us will have so few of them in our family files that it will take just hours to make what we have right. john. At 10:10 PM 4/8/2015, Jay Wilpolt wrote: Sorry Tessa, IF Legacy paid attention to the market and the needs of its customers they would have made many of the suggested changes already.... Face the facts ..they dont want to and I doubt they ever will.... On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Tessa Keough <murke...@gmail.com> wrote: I like Legacy and hope that they continue to pay attention to the market and the needs of their customers because, when all is said and done, it is a business that provides a product to the public. Whether it is the administrators or the programmers - ease of use, keeping up with the competition, offering useful and necessary features, and updates that take care of previous bugs and don't add new ones - is what it is all about. I am sure these companies all watch each other and then make decisions based on where they want their product to go in the future. Sadly we have seen promising programs fall by the wayside and others never take off if they can't satisfy their customer base. I am under the impression (don't know why) that it is a small group but they are involved in all aspects. It would be interesting to know more and I would guess those who have been on the cruises might have a better idea of the players and their attitudes/capabilities. Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough & Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies, Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot < br...@the-lightfoots.com <mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com> > wrote: > I was wondering when somebody was going to mention this. And given the fact > that the "programmers" are part of the executive management team, I'd say the > chance of a major change to this aspect of relationships is on par with the > drought in California ending tomorrow. (I always thought that Millennia > used job-shop or contract programmers. Wonder when that changed?) > > Brian in CA > _____ No virus found in this message. 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