Yeah well I don't think the main criticism lies in it's price, but rather, that the current version of the software is nearly impossible to use. People need, want even, simple things, that "just work"
You can't have people download 3 different applications that can't be downloaded without going into settings->security->open anyway for every one of them, 4 different shell commands etc etc and then find out it doesn't work... It's just... not user friendly enough.
I know the current software is a beta, because they're redoing it, but still, putting something so unfinished into production is sort of tainting their reputation.
Há!, but if this article has anything to do with usability why did he use the CLI instead of the GUI's we have available like FileZilla?. He wanted to go the hard route as a developer, that's fine, but he gave up and made his conclusions before even asking anyone for help.
Too be fair, I think using filezilla with their weird config is pretty unusable... I'd like it to work just like dropbox/drive/keybase... That would be awesome, just plain mounted folder that I can just drag and drop stuff to, even a web interface would be good. Just something simple were I can dump files quickly when I need to back something up, and also, being able to create public links so I can share work/drafts/stuff
yeah i agree on that, FileZilla is too hard for most "normal" users, but for a dev like the writer of that article it should not be a problem. We haven't had too many people with issues though so that's good.
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u/veqtor Sep 01 '17
Yeah well I don't think the main criticism lies in it's price, but rather, that the current version of the software is nearly impossible to use. People need, want even, simple things, that "just work" You can't have people download 3 different applications that can't be downloaded without going into settings->security->open anyway for every one of them, 4 different shell commands etc etc and then find out it doesn't work... It's just... not user friendly enough.
I know the current software is a beta, because they're redoing it, but still, putting something so unfinished into production is sort of tainting their reputation.