• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    Beloved feature is only actually utilised by 5% of your users?

    I mean, there is a pretty strong argument that if 95% of users don’t use a function, then it is not actually beloved and just more of a niche thing that the vast majority don’t care about.

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      1 month ago

      That 5% is 5% of the users who don’t turn the telemetry off.

      And if use of that feature is strongly correlated with the type of person who also turns off telemetry…

      – Frost

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        1 month ago

        That would just make it 5% of a vast majority, nearing 100%, so still only a small amount of users.

        I get what you’re saying, but when something is only used by the small demographic that is “power users”, it is not a beloved feature of the userbase as a whole.

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      1 month ago

      Move it out of core and into an optional extention.

      Of course if the code base respected user’s software freedom then others can maintain in your place.

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        1 month ago

        Yeah sure I’m not arguing it should be culled, just that calling a feature untouched by the vast majority of users beloved is incorrect.