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Those timelines were promised before we had a real plan of action or any internal dialogue.
That was a bad move.
There's no good way to say this, but they are not reasonable and have given you guys some false hope.
You know, that's better to say now than later. However, if you've made a commitment to it, you work with that commitment, don't you? You can make a *lot* of tech progress in 6 months with a good team; I know many good teams who have made entire best-of-class products from the ground up in that much time.
We want to do these things but we don't want to ship out crappy products either. Mainly, modmail is going to take a lot of time. It will not be ready by the end of the year.
I'm curious here. Are you saying that for the past couple years when you were promising better tools you haven't had *anything* going on? Your language here sounds like basically all those other promises of working on future improvements were lies. Still... truth now is better than more lies.
Do we have a backlog with time estimates on features? Seems like a pretty easy way to start making priorities and realistic timelines, right?
Comment by sickhippie at 06/07/2015 at 20:35 UTC
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Still... truth now is better than more lies.
I'm still not sure why this is all accepted as truth. The statement basically boils down to this: "We know we've apologized and promised but not delivered before. Here's an apology and more promises."
There is quite literally *no reason* to believe anything from this spin. I know we all *want* to believe that they'll switch focus and get us better tools and so on, but to say "yeah, we never actually started on any of the stuff we promised months and years ago, but we're going to do it *this* time, for sure" just rings hollow.
So yeah, I don't accept this and neither should any other mod here until we see an actual result. Talk is cheap and actions are what matter, and the action we've seen over the last few days shows the users, moderators, and communities matter less than interviews with the media and public damage control.