That's one of the curses of changing something that isn't directly a 'feature'. I add stuff that is very blatantly, even transparently obviously, 'new features', it's stuff people can see themselves using, it's stuff that people can directly relate to. They see what I add and think, 'hmm, I can see how I can make use of that', or 'that would have been useful for <situation I had in the past>'
Something that is not clearly 'a feature' is hard for people to grasp in order to comment on it. It's a usability thing not a 'feature' thing, and as a result people need to see it, interact with it and get a feel for it to be able to figure out whether they like it or not. It's much the same with some of the WeCSS stuff, actually... same symptom under a different situation - most people are not in a position to see it or interact with it to be able to figure out if they're going to like it or not, and most people won't use it anyway because most people are only going to do minimal colour changes based on themes other people made.
I have a similar problem in terms of getting feedback when it comes to some of the stuff I've worked on with Wedge, e.g. when I asked about permissions. Everyone seems to grasp the nature of the problems that I see with what SMF had, but no-one's really quite sure how it should be fixed, and even when I tried bumping it via Facebook, the additional views didn't really help. It's frustrating in a way because I specifically wanted feedback but came to understand why I wasn't going to get very much on it.
The quest for perfection is a lonely enough road as it is, and when taking into account usability and aesthetics, it's even lonelier. Good design doesn't shout at you to tell you how good it is. It lets you do what you want to do without being in your face, in a way that feedback generally seems redundant. But bad design will generally get met with feedback along the way. The lack of feedback, generally, is a good thing where design is concerned.
I'm not sure how I feel about the sidebar at present. The idea of it sliding out is a cool one, but I'm concerned that it isn't obvious enough and it seems a bit twitchy to me - I go by the front page an awful lot and more than once I've ended up bringing the sidebar into view when going to click on the 'Wedge' in the linktree.
Something that is not clearly 'a feature' is hard for people to grasp in order to comment on it. It's a usability thing not a 'feature' thing, and as a result people need to see it, interact with it and get a feel for it to be able to figure out whether they like it or not. It's much the same with some of the WeCSS stuff, actually... same symptom under a different situation - most people are not in a position to see it or interact with it to be able to figure out if they're going to like it or not, and most people won't use it anyway because most people are only going to do minimal colour changes based on themes other people made.
I have a similar problem in terms of getting feedback when it comes to some of the stuff I've worked on with Wedge, e.g. when I asked about permissions. Everyone seems to grasp the nature of the problems that I see with what SMF had, but no-one's really quite sure how it should be fixed, and even when I tried bumping it via Facebook, the additional views didn't really help. It's frustrating in a way because I specifically wanted feedback but came to understand why I wasn't going to get very much on it.
The quest for perfection is a lonely enough road as it is, and when taking into account usability and aesthetics, it's even lonelier. Good design doesn't shout at you to tell you how good it is. It lets you do what you want to do without being in your face, in a way that feedback generally seems redundant. But bad design will generally get met with feedback along the way. The lack of feedback, generally, is a good thing where design is concerned.
I'm not sure how I feel about the sidebar at present. The idea of it sliding out is a cool one, but I'm concerned that it isn't obvious enough and it seems a bit twitchy to me - I go by the front page an awful lot and more than once I've ended up bringing the sidebar into view when going to click on the 'Wedge' in the linktree.