I’m going to make a summary of my findings about AdGen.

• I think the programmers could’ve taken that extra inch to make the scrollwheel work in the diagram mode.
• I think that the algorithm should consider the chance that someone turns entities in a group the wrong way around.
• I think that it shouldn’t be such a bother making a standalone action block (and actually finding it back).
• If you’re going to allow a user to choose for themselves what part of the solution they’re going to view in the diagram, at least make sure that the treeview doesn’t like like a Picasso as well.
• If an actionblock name is being changed, why the hell does it remember the original name? It might cause trouble if actually naming a different action block that way and it can’t be used because somewhere there’s still an actionblock that doesn’t exist anymore, that does have the name.
• If you allow website code to be generated in the first place, at least make sure that the developer can make it look better than some weird ripoff of some backwards Publisher site. (Putting text is a hassle, which is just not right. Never mind actually designing stuff!)
• Don’t allow new tabs to be opened constantly. Just like with Wikipedia, people end up WILF-ing like crazy.

Sorry, but GEN is absolutely way too abstract and too wild-ass-guess WILF threat that I don’t see myself seriously coding that way.

Posted by Taennyn in Real Life