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Comment by spxneo | Hacker News Reader

not sure if you are trolling or serious here but thats a bad user experience and also very condescending

It's not about a user, it's about someone declining to become a user because the manual is distributed as a separate PDF. I see two solutions for this problem, either use another software or hire someone to adapt this one to you.

As a user you know the basic constraints on table names, if you don't you can't use the software.

> It's not about a user

If your users are developers, then this mindset will inevitably lead to poor developer experience (DX). That is a stance that someone could take, but their software would be then only used in spite of the DX, not because of it. In general, this would lead to a more miserable experience. I don't think that's good, even if it's just a lot of small annoyances along the way.

Here's a Dylan Beattie talk that touches upon this very thing: https://youtu.be/BIkXid_pBiY?t=629 (specific timestamp to relevant bit)

Yeah, people have been having miserable experiences with this software and its predecessor for decades but still keep at it, they must be a lot less smart than you.

> As a user you know the basic constraints on table names, if you don't you can't use the software.

1) As a user you shouldn't be required to know weird constraints on table names.

2) As a piece of software objecting to some specific issue with a table name, YTF not mention what that issue is in the error message you throw up?

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