Right John.
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 9, 2015, at 1:20 AM, John Lisle <leg...@johnlisle.com> wrote: > > 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> 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 >> > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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