Why have I stopped pointing to Versiontracker?
Some of you may notice that I have stopped pointing to Versiontracker much from Mac Net Journal. The reason for this is kind of complicated and hard to explain. It has nothing to do with Versiontracker’s move to more subscriber-based services. What it does involve is a new user-unfriendly practice that Versiontracker is using if you want to click to the developer’s Web site for any given software. I usually go to the developer site to get more information about a program, and it used to be easy to click a link to the developer’s site and get the information without any hassle. A few weeks ago, at about the same time that Versiontracker rolled out its new subscription services, things changed – if I click on the link to the developer’s site, instead of going to the site it loads another Versiontracker page. This may seem like a small matter, but it decreases the usuability of the site in exchange for another page view. Versiontracker is a great Web site. They need to fix this problem.
