2008/11/7 Nathan nawrich@gmail.com:
I don't remember this sort of strong negative reaction before - is it expected? Are we seeing something a little different this year in terms of reaction? Has it translated into any change in the pace of donations?
FWIW, every year we appear to have a very vocal negative reaction. It's never clear if this is shared by many people *outside* the project - the only people we really have any way of gauging feedback from are actively involved users, or the very small proportion of uninvolved readers who are both motivated enough to complain and adept enough to figure out a way to do so within our normal framework of talk pages etc.
That's not to say people don't dislike it - I hear myself from many who do! - just that we have no way of judging how meaningful or widespread that dislike is compared to the reaction of our however many million readers.