I don't think anyone was criticising P2, just questioning how so many new users had chosen a non-default editor.
Phil (trigpoint) On Thu Feb 25 13:15:11 2016 GMT, Dave F wrote: > What's wrong with with suggesting users use P2 over iD? > > P2 has a few advantages over other editors. The only real benefit I've > noticed in iD is it prevents loading of data if user is zoomed too far > out. Something that Richard Fairhurst might be able to implement fairly > easily into P2. > > I'm even less encouraged to use iD after a couple of conversations with > two of the developers (the only two?). They appear resentful to many of > the suggestions for improvement. > > From memory Richard F. was a developer in the start up of iD, Is he > still involved? > > Dave F. > > > > On 25/02/2016 09:30, Philip Barnes wrote: > > > > On Thu Feb 25 06:43:23 2016 GMT, Andy Robinson wrote: > >> I noticed that too Rob. Day before yesterday they all seemed to start at > >> the same time so I assumed it was uni students. > >> > > We spotted them as new users from the bot that reports in #osm-gb. > > > > They were spread over the country, I assume the lecturer hasn't updated > > his notes, the default if you hit the edit button as a new user is iD. > > > > Phil (trigpoint) > >> From: Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: 25 February 2016 00:24 > >> To: Talk-GB > >> Subject: [Talk-GB] New users and P2 > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is anyone aware of any recent OSM press - we've seen a lot of new OSM > >> mappers in the Midlands in the last 2 days :-) > >> > >> Also is Potlatch 2 still the default for new mappers as they all seem to > >> be using that? I though we'd switched to iD as the default across all > >> browsers now (although I don't remember where I read that!). > >> > >> > >> > >> Rob > >> > >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- Sent from my Jolla _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb