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Poll: What function(s) of Hopper you've seldom/never used and are unlikely to use in the near future?
Universal Hop (show you Appear Offline then Online)
Contact-Specific Hop (block/unblock your contacts)
Conversation-window commands (like /xhop, /xhopcnt...etc)
Hopper Control Center
HopKeys
Hop with Custom messages in notification windows
Delayed Hop
Change nickname and Hop (the one-way ones: /xhopnick and /xhopnick2)
All or some of PH-Toasts (/xhopsend, /xhopping, Contact Information)
In-Program Help (not the readme on Hopper website)
Check for Update
I use all the functions because I love Hopper very much! (L)
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What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used?
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O.P. What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used?
The development of the next version of Hopper will begin soon (soon = as long as I am not inundated by studies = some months later :P). The next version will be completely reconstructed/recoded and yes, that means reshaping of this little proggy. I made it too hasty coding/releasing Hopper³ (some of you might remember that it was used as one of my projects when I applied for university last year), and thus I didn't consider what functions to obsolete. But now I think spending some time thinking of what features to stay and what to discard would be worthwhile :)

That being said, "reshaping", for now, does not mean taking into consideration possible new features to bring to Hopper. Currently, reshaping is to port only popular or userful functions from Hopper³ to the new Hopper (it's a safe guess that the new version will be named HopperLive, if I follow the Live trend). That is, little-used functions in Hopper³ will be unavailable in the new version. This can help me from being distracted from little-used functions and make Hopper easier to maintain, too.

Hopper, unlike Plus!, does not have any internal statistics function, so I don't know overall what functions my users do use and what functions they never even take a look at. However, making a poll on the forums should be a way for me to have some basic idea of the usage of Hopper.

Here is the list of functional components of Hopper. Please choose the functions you've SELDOM/NEVER used, and ARE UNLIKELY TO USE in the near future when you use Hopper. If in the list you see any function you never know to exist in Hopper, that's an option you definitely have to choose.
By the way, to help me determine how many people have voted, it is important that you vote "I use all the functions" if you do love every piece of Hopper and want everything to be kept.

If there is anything you can't express by voting only, please reply this thread. And yes, I'm still open for new feature suggestions, but I can't promise anything, because I haven't even started designing the new structure (and actually, unlikely in a short while). I'm making this poll much early because I want to make sure it has enough time to gather meaningful data. Meaningful = having many people vote.



One final question: The user interface of Hopper³ looks dull for me (again it's because I had no time for GUI), agree or disagree (please reply if you have ideas on this question and even better, ideas for new GUI)?



Any comment would be much appricated :)

This post was edited on 03-30-2006 at 03:20 PM by Mnjul.
03-28-2006 07:01 PM
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What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used? - by Mnjul on 03-28-2006 at 07:01 PM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you never used? - by ~INVASION~ on 03-28-2006 at 07:19 PM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you never used? - by DJKAL on 03-28-2006 at 07:43 PM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you never used? - by tony on 03-28-2006 at 07:53 PM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used? - by Mnjul on 04-06-2006 at 03:16 PM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used? - by Cloud Strife on 04-22-2006 at 08:07 AM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used? - by ins4ne on 04-27-2006 at 11:28 AM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used? - by John Anderton on 04-27-2006 at 02:11 PM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used? - by Mnjul on 04-28-2006 at 05:36 PM
RE: What function(s) of Hopper have you NEVER used? - by MattyRid on 06-17-2006 at 03:34 PM


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