Additionally, according to data protection laws, any service has a statutory duty to provide us with a copy of our stored data. I wouldn't mind sending you a weekly request for my stored data.
There are currently 36 "export" and some more "backup" threads. The only thing we keep hearing over, and over again: "we are considering this feature now". You probably realized that you couldn't fob us off with that forever, so you started talking about this "open API", making it possible for other developers to build a backup feature. Fair enough - I would even spend some of my time to build a simple web app for everyone to backup their data. But after asking for an API key, I got the following answer:
"Our open API supports creating data, does not support exporting data."
Seriously?! This made me come to the following conclusion. You either:
1.) Ignore your customers. Since I've seen you implement some suggestions within days, I don't think that's the case.
or
2.) You consciously keep people from exporting their tasks, so they have to stick to your service.
The second one is a big accusation, but it makes sense. This is a basic feature, that EVERY professional service offers. It has been requested for years and has a huge demand (as I said, it's around 40-50 threads with even more people supporting this idea). First you "don't plan it", then you "will consider it strongly" and finally you come up with an open API, which supports... no reading operations? For me as a software developer, that's rubbish. Do you really think you can keep people from changing their todo management service by not offering any export functionality? Quite the contrary - you lose so many customers that either leave or don't join in the first place BECAUSE of a missing backup feature.
Finally, you always ask, why we want that feature so much. So let me put it that way: people don't trust you. People don't trust ANY web service completely, especially if it involves our private data. You can assure us how our data is perfectly safe as much as you want. It's still OUR data, and we have any right to have local backups.
If you want to maintain any creditability, please don't come up with any other automatic answer like "we're considering it strongly" or "your data is perfectly secure". We've heard it all, and we want to see that you start listening to your paying customers.
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09/11/2014 09:56#1PRO
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09/11/2014 22:18#2PRO
Hi @darekkay
After more than two years testing Doit as a pro user (and considering it as a potential tool for my team), I`'ve just finally decided to leave Doit for the same reason.
I hope we will keep in touch in some other forum.
Rgds.
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09/15/2014 09:27#3
I'm still not buying PRO version because I need planned and completed tasks filtered out by a certain criteria to be exported in the text/xml/rss form (to be used in internal business processes).
It's hard for me to trust the company that does not provide this feature and publishes trimmed API intentionally.
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09/18/2014 22:39#4PRO
@oghmios That's exactly my conclusion. I left NirvanaHQ for a similar reason. They (NirvanaHQ) are ignoring their customers completely, and that doesn't make them trustworthy. The support here is awesome and they usually listen to the community, but witholding a major feature like that makes me question their intentions..