[wp-hackers] Wordpress 1.5 downloads

[David House]

On 01/01/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> > What you say sounds good and worthwhile, though costly compared to the
> > free and abundant feedback from WordPress.com users. Any referrals?
> > Pro bono? :-)
>
> You can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars doing this, as you can
> hiring programmers to write code; but can also do it on the cheap.
> You'll get a lot of benefit just by roping in a few non-techie
> friends/family members. watching even one user struggle with your
> software can radically change how you think about it, and approach its
> design.

I might be wrong, but I thought we were talking about finding bugs,
not usability fixes. For the former you need people used to the system
as well. Otherwise how are bugs in modules like XMLRPC going to be
found?

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-David House, dmhouse at gmail.com, http://xmouse.ithium.net