On 07/10/2014 02:41 PM, David Gerard wrote:
Anecdotally, (a) I don't mind the new viewer (b) I know a lot of people who've said they love it (c) I know a few who've said they hate it.
That also matches my anecdotal impression, with perhaps the added apparent correlation between (c) and "has been around a long time".
I keep saying - half in jest - that our editor community shows all the symptoms of Stockholm syndrome vis-a-vis Mediawiki. They have suffered so long and so much at its torturous hands that they've now feeling sympathy and affection under its choke.
So yeah, real user surveys needed!
Indeed. That remains a *hard* problem to solve, because any sort of online user survey is necessarily suffering from, at least, self-selection bias. Any brilliant ideas from our metrics people?
-- Marc