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Old Jul 25, 2025 | 6:57 am
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Originally Posted by cheltzel
I'm jumping in to agree with both WannaTheater and some dude

In my career as a consulting software professional, I have had to take on the support and redesign of 3 or 4 large online application. They all were in similar situations as what the current support team is working with: obsolete technology, lack of documentation (or, even worse, misleading documentation), badly written code, poorly maintained code, etc. Unless you have done it, you have no idea what hard work it is. Personally I saw several improvement with the last update. But it is obvious this was the first of at least 2 or 3 update cycles that will be required to straighten out the product. And that does not include any thought by the current support team as to their desired end state product.

As some dude said, I am not affiliated with EF in any way, outside of being a subscriber. All I am trying to do is to bring out what I feel is the reality of the current situation. The recent update did not fix many major bugs in the product. And if anyone finds it unacceptable, they need to find another product that satisfies their requirements. Or cancel their subscription. As consumers, this is the only leverage we have.
Totally empathise…

But I also have experience with the approach of ‘don’t touch the legacy code if it’s robust, and instead find ways to interface to it and test the resultant behaviours - especially if dependability, cost and time are driving factors more than say new features’.

So what new features drove this heavy re-work and all the inevitable disruption?
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