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Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by darau1 on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:14PM (#24664094)
> power users who think they know more than they do, who end up destroying their data through the API

That's their own fault IMO. Power users by virtue of their name shouldn't need babysitting.

Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by PragmaticPulp on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:24PM (#24664216)
One of the hard truths about dealing with customers is that they don't care whose fault it is. They're just angry and they want a resolution.

In practice, you can't simply divide customer problems into self-inflicted and company-inflicted and decline to support the customers' self-inflicted problems. The line between the two types of problems is too blurry to enforce, but the reality is that customers don't care either way. They just want you to fix it, and they expect your product to prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot in the first place.

Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by apozem on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:42PM (#24665011)
Doesn't matter if it's their fault. If their monthly recurring revenue is high enough, they'll make it your problem. I've seen it happen.
Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by auggierose on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:26PM (#24664235)
It doesn't really matter whose fault it is, it's still your business.
Re:Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users by Spivak on Friday October 02, 2020 @05:41PM (#24667303)
And you probably keep better backups than they do. I've had this happen plenty of times. Free backup restore test.