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Spiceworks (7.3 ?) takes useful things like vendor pages (I’m sorry, they’re called “Agreements” now. Yeah, that’s how I refer to my vendors), and makes them next to impossible to find. Meanwhile, there are many useful Feature Requests with a significant number of votes that have been languishing on the list for nearly a decade (if you will kindly allow me the artistic license to characterize 8 years as nearly a decade).

I think (NOTE: that means this is MY opinion) that the Spiceworks developers’ time could be better spent implementing some easy, long awaited feature requests rather than playing Microsoft and jacking up the user interface in every other release.

There, I feel much better now.

::edit - typo

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Get it off your chest.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Spiceworks is free, they do what they think is best for the company as a whole. If this is where they want spiceworks to go, then go it shall.

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Here you go

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Agreed. The new interface requires more clicks to get to the various facets of the application’s interface, like the help desk or inventory. It requires switching to that aspect now instead of the simple drop downs it’s had four a year.

Vendors is still a section that needs a lot of work.

The new method to add users as admins or otherwise is also very cumbersome, especially for those new to the application.

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It is a little frustrating that we are routed to the feature request page, but then it seems to be ignored. Feels like a black hole.

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Why do you do that?

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It’s a reference to a management book called “who moved my cheese”

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Because cheese goes great with a certain beverage produced from fruiting berries of a deciduous woody vine

=D

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Using it for about a week now and had an open mind coming into it. Couldn’t imagine using the old system again… Change happens.

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Nothing like some cheese to go with your whine! Although he should have given you some crackers as well…

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figures, I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt :stuck_out_tongue:

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But its not productive to the discussion. It’s actually rather demeaning to the OP and brings the tone of the discussion down. It would be much more productive to the community if we discussed things with a bit more articulation. If you think OP is whining, it’s better to either ignore the comment or add a comment that offers a solution or alternative view.

OP did say it was a rant.

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The water cooler never has and never will be a place of serious discussion, that’s what the more focused groups on here are for. The reason the water cooler is popular is because people can post whatever they want within reason. I fully accept if I post a serious general question here I’m going to get some serious answers and some silly answers, it what makes this group enjoyable. If the OP wanted a strictly serious discussion he would have or should have posted this in the Spiceworks group.

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It’s ok, I get it. I just hate how cliffhanger it was. I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!!! WHO WAS COMING AROUND THE CORNER!!! THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS!!!

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Get it off your chest.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

Spiceworks is free, they do what they think is best for the company as a whole. If this is where they want spiceworks to go, then go it shall.

Thanks Ross…forgot all about my breathing relaxation techniques.

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I really doesn’t matter anymore who moved your cheese, they’ve been taken care of and are now incapable of moving cheese ever again. Don’t ask me anymore questions about this. Ever.

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There are questionable design choices. The helpdesk ticket view is the most changed. Important factors like creator have been minimized and are now hard to find, while the messages have been enlarged with unnecessary quote marks. And by default, timestamps are relative instead of specific. It’s really not helpful to see a ticket was made a day ago, or a week ago. For documentation use, actual dates are more useful. It really seems like it was designed with “what managers want to see” in mind, rather than “who is going to use it”. I would never show off Spiceworks to my execs to tell them “look how cool this is!”. I would show off how productive and successful the tool makes me.

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Now tell us how you really feel!

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So, is there a Linux installer yet??? It’s only been X number of years since the requests have gone in.

Too many vendors/programmers are spending an inordinate time with the Window dressing instead of the functional part. (Pun intended)

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Hey is that a rolled up carpet leaking blood… in … the corner… I’ll show myself out.

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