Robert, I feel your pain. I am in the computer software business and everything Robert says is true and perhaps understated. It has become so complicated that even the people who wrote these systems can't understand them anymore and they hire mental Neanderthals to support them. Everything changes about every 6 months and it takes a year to adapt to the change. Everything you know is obsolete before you even understand it.
Can't agree any further. I've seen changes in the industry and not all for good. WordPerfect 6.0 was a decent word processor, much better than MS Word by any means. One would start numbering paragraphs, it would pick up the pattern and continue it, didn't have to typeset paragraph indentations, it would resume your format. Legal secretaries decried the move as Word was a real pain to use, less friendly.
The older database systems were easier to use, even though they used the so called outdated VT-100 and successor terminals. There were short cut keys to jump to locations, do inputs so there were less key strokes. The newer systems require mouse use, which is slower and more time consuming. The changes to newer databases have screens more generalized, takes more screens, tabs, mouse clicks to do inputs. They look much prettier but are more labor intensive to do inputs.
The redesigned MS Office ribbon is 10 steps backward toward user friendliness, ditto with many of the user interfaces on forums. It just as though the entire industry lost its touch with the user and turned woke. Yahoo, facebook, etc. are included. Yahoo killed off its forums by going to a clunky, hard to follow forum format style, if nothing else, appeared to be a deliberate move to kill it by staving off users.
It used to be a consideration that automation was to reduce time and make things easier to save labor hours spent. Every key stroke and mouse click avoided, sped up inputs and improved accuracy. Now it is all about appearance and glitz. It is as though the gold plating of the key made it open the door easier.
Maybe that is why there are so many tech professionals flying stunt. We have been flying the same pattern for my entire life. It is a refuge where becoming an "Expert" actually means something.
Enough of my rant, glad Stunt Hangar's user interface remains user friendly and easy to follow. Regarding C/L flight, it is a way to escape technology, go back to things that require manual input, simplicity at its best. It is also why I like single channel rudder only R/C flying, simplicity at its best and requires skill to stunt.
So, where did the donate button go? Anybody that can do what Robert does deserves a few bucks every now and then.
Agreed, take out lunch or dinner is easily $20 or more for the wife and I. One can spare such. If all who aren't contributing yet gave just that much would make Stunt Hangar sustainable.
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