[Talk-GB] New users and P2

[Philip Barnes]

I don't think anyone was criticising P2, just questioning how so many new users had chosen a non-default editor. 

Phil (trigpoint)

On Thu Feb 25 13:15:11 2016 GMT, Dave F wrote:
> What's wrong with with suggesting users use P2 over iD?
> 
> P2 has a few advantages over other editors. The only real benefit I've 
> noticed in iD is it prevents loading of data if user is zoomed too far 
> out. Something that Richard Fairhurst might be able to implement fairly 
> easily into P2.
> 
> I'm even less encouraged to use iD after a couple of conversations with 
> two of the developers (the only two?). They appear resentful to many of 
> the suggestions for improvement.
> 
>  From memory Richard F. was a developer in the start up of iD, Is he 
> still involved?
> 
> Dave F.
> 
> 
> 
> On 25/02/2016 09:30, Philip Barnes wrote:
> >
> > On Thu Feb 25 06:43:23 2016 GMT, Andy Robinson wrote:
> >> I noticed that too Rob. Day before yesterday they all seemed to start at the same time so I assumed it was uni students.
> >>
> > We spotted them as new users from the bot that reports in  #osm-gb.
> >
> > They were spread over the country,  I assume the lecturer hasn't updated his notes, the default if you hit the edit button as a new user is iD.
> >
> > Phil (trigpoint)
> >> From: Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: 25 February 2016 00:24
> >> To: Talk-GB
> >> Subject: [Talk-GB] New users and P2
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is anyone aware of any recent OSM press - we've seen a lot of new OSM mappers in the Midlands in the last 2 days :-)
> >>
> >> Also is Potlatch 2 still the default for new mappers as they all seem to be using that? I though we'd switched to iD as the default across all browsers now (although I don't remember where I read that!).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >>
> 
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