(I really don't understand this comment, nor the tone that I perceive as quite aggressive, but I may just misunderstand it. So answering anyway)
> The unspoken "problem" you have is that your existing users are doing just fine with VLC.
Some of them yes, some are complaining. Quite many, in fact.
> If all you see is "growing" the userbase by nuking and reworking the user interface what happens to us your existing users?
We're just working so that it still works for our existing users, that's exactly the point of my previous comment. It will require, at some places, to have some options, for contradictory use-cases; but mostly, we will try to support everything that we did, just simplify some cases (changes of subtitles or audio for example, chromecast or access to video effect), and provide a media library to people who listen to a lot of audio.
> I use VLC primarily as a music player for my jazz album collection. It handles many formats I throw at it. It has a simple playlist (I play albums from start to finish and do not value a lot of spazzy track selection features).
It should absolutely still work. If it does not work as before, just tell us why and we will fix. I can even send you some early designs, if you are scared.
We are in no hurry, so we'll do well. It just requires more time, which is what we have :)
> If you privilege growth of new users you don't care
Who talked about growth? We're talking about VLC! We don't make any money by having more users, on the contrary.
We just want our users to be more happy.
> The unspoken "problem" you have is that your existing users are doing just fine with VLC.
Some of them yes, some are complaining. Quite many, in fact.
> If all you see is "growing" the userbase by nuking and reworking the user interface what happens to us your existing users?
We're just working so that it still works for our existing users, that's exactly the point of my previous comment. It will require, at some places, to have some options, for contradictory use-cases; but mostly, we will try to support everything that we did, just simplify some cases (changes of subtitles or audio for example, chromecast or access to video effect), and provide a media library to people who listen to a lot of audio.
> I use VLC primarily as a music player for my jazz album collection. It handles many formats I throw at it. It has a simple playlist (I play albums from start to finish and do not value a lot of spazzy track selection features).
It should absolutely still work. If it does not work as before, just tell us why and we will fix. I can even send you some early designs, if you are scared.
We are in no hurry, so we'll do well. It just requires more time, which is what we have :)
> If you privilege growth of new users you don't care
Who talked about growth? We're talking about VLC! We don't make any money by having more users, on the contrary.
We just want our users to be more happy.