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Some Positive VT suggestions

Feedback Type:  Commentary

Contributed by: Rob Probin Sunday, May 04 2003 @ 02:56 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX

Used Product For: One Week

There are some very interesting features on the new VersionTracker, but I'd have to agree with the lot of the feedback from others. To summarise mine in order of annoyance, hopefully with some useful suggestions rather than just "it's not as good as the previous version"...

1. The comments are hidden from the user, and it introduces an extra step - this is most important when reviewing say 10 or 30 programs for fitness for purpose. The user reviews are definitely one of the most important things, along with how long ago the software was updated (currently important for 10.x). SUGGESTION: Put some of them with the product description, or at least the a selection of the scoring. (Some sort of scoring on the search page would also be great.)

2. Older version comments are hidden - quite often I don't need any comments about the latest version (which might not have been reviewed yet), but get a feeling of the program quality from older comments. SUGGESTION: List the number of reviews/comments of older versions. Perhaps also include an overall score for older versions (or the last one).

3. When post a comment, if you are using multiple windows/tabs, the comments can get posted against the wrong Application!!!

4. The "version" drop down sticks when going back to the program from the search menu. SUGGESTION: Should go back to selected/latest version.

5. It's difficult to see how many versions there are - which can be useful information. SUGGESTION: It would be nice to see the version in list, rather than a drop down.

6. The comments are truncated (with a "Read more" indicated) after too few lines. SUGGESTION: make it a few more.

7. The [Alert Admin] was confusing the first time I saw it. My immediate reaction was "are all these people admins?". SUGGESTION: Re-word to "Inform Admin" or similar and make it underscored rather than bracketed (like a link).

8. Using Safari the product description text quite often overlaps the product summary box to the right. Might be a Safari bug of course, since it doesn't appear to do it in Mozilla.

9. The current version to the right of the product description shows the currently selected version. Perhaps a "latest version" would also be helpful, especially when reading older versions.

10. I'm sure VersionTracker is slower. I'm not sure what you can do about this - I know sometimes VT is under high load. I suppose the suggestion is for more people to registers so VT can get bigger CPU's :-)
  

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