Yes, it's bloat: I can no longer use 2-panel mode because it's filled with useless stuff that I can't reach in any event, thus blocking the dictionary's core function: it's a dictionary, and you prevent it from being that. Your design isn't just indifferent to one-handed use, but proactively against it: one advantage I pointed out (my luck in the location of the dictionary in the popup definition) you declare you're intentionally going to eliminate and put it out of reach. In flashcards, I've lucked out that the control buttons are to the left of "reveal"--let me guess, you've been planning to move it to the right side, out of reach. So I try to adapt to one-handed use, where the useless input method bar actually becomes useful to me as junk padding so that I can reach the top entry, which I can't do with the keyboard closed. I might ask: why not stack up the hits from the bottom up instead of the unreachable top of the phone down so that the one-handed user doesn't have to open the keyboard just to reach the top hit.
Now, in the entry itself, I actually find something that I might use (the sentences), and I encounter a set of tabs just like I see in so many other apps that all provide swipability--except Pleco is unique in making them unswipable. You say that if users aren't using STROKE, there'd be no problem swiping. And the Play Store--one app that every one of your Android users uses extensively--has that same edge swipe along with its swipable tabs. But instead of doing the common thing, you just disable it entirely. And you say that even if you work out your imagined technical, the one thing you won't do is the common thing of swipable tabs: instead of doing the normal thing, your going to take that specific opportunity to experiment. In short, I'm taking a very personal beatdown here, and it looks like I'm being punished for not participating in the beta and screaming my head off over every little design decision. And your excuse is that you're now locked into the groupthink that developed in the beta--my god, you've found the most extravagant reasons to avoid tab swiping. And, oh yeah, the OCR shortcut doesn't work. You could throw one or more of the missing and eliminated features into "miscellaneous," and you don't have to go with "expert" and dismiss categorically any kind of expert category. That's just not responsive, which is altogether different from the kind of support you've provided up till now. In fact, that kind of responsiveness gave me the confidence to not participate in the beta because any major oversight used to be responded to. A radical change in attitude has accompanied the radical change in user interface.
I've lost a lot of functionality with version 3, so you've locked me into 2.4. I've tried really hard to adapt to 3, and you won't even lift a finger to alleviate the groupthink that you're encouraging. Are you going to stonewall on legacy support? If so, I'd like a refund. I've given lots of feedback over the years, so I think I merit a free ticket out. Because without legacy support, sooner or later the app is going to break entirely, and I'll have basically been screwed out of my money.
Now, in the entry itself, I actually find something that I might use (the sentences), and I encounter a set of tabs just like I see in so many other apps that all provide swipability--except Pleco is unique in making them unswipable. You say that if users aren't using STROKE, there'd be no problem swiping. And the Play Store--one app that every one of your Android users uses extensively--has that same edge swipe along with its swipable tabs. But instead of doing the common thing, you just disable it entirely. And you say that even if you work out your imagined technical, the one thing you won't do is the common thing of swipable tabs: instead of doing the normal thing, your going to take that specific opportunity to experiment. In short, I'm taking a very personal beatdown here, and it looks like I'm being punished for not participating in the beta and screaming my head off over every little design decision. And your excuse is that you're now locked into the groupthink that developed in the beta--my god, you've found the most extravagant reasons to avoid tab swiping. And, oh yeah, the OCR shortcut doesn't work. You could throw one or more of the missing and eliminated features into "miscellaneous," and you don't have to go with "expert" and dismiss categorically any kind of expert category. That's just not responsive, which is altogether different from the kind of support you've provided up till now. In fact, that kind of responsiveness gave me the confidence to not participate in the beta because any major oversight used to be responded to. A radical change in attitude has accompanied the radical change in user interface.
I've lost a lot of functionality with version 3, so you've locked me into 2.4. I've tried really hard to adapt to 3, and you won't even lift a finger to alleviate the groupthink that you're encouraging. Are you going to stonewall on legacy support? If so, I'd like a refund. I've given lots of feedback over the years, so I think I merit a free ticket out. Because without legacy support, sooner or later the app is going to break entirely, and I'll have basically been screwed out of my money.
