Sunday 21 February 2010

Mendeley Desktop

Dear Mendeley.
Your programme Mendeley Desktop has been nothing short of useful while it has worked. But therein lies the problem. It does not work. It is a pile of horseshit masquerading as a programme.
I wish to read my PDFs. I wish to read a specific one so that I may write my dissertation and get a degree.Your pile of computing bollocks will not, however, allow this. Any sub-par grades received from here on out are to be blamed entirely upon your company. I shall be billing you for a wasted year at university if this occurs.
Kindly fuck right off, and take your shoddy bucket of blood-tainted-piss you have marketed as a computerised academic tool with you.
Sincerely yours,
Elliot Spirrett

PS: Adobe, you are as much to blame for the invention of this stain on the face of technology which you call the PDF format.



Oh and Haddock, I know you're reading this. Stop being a cunt.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Elliott,

    Victor here, one of the founders of Mendeley. Ouch, that hurt. Though still in beta, we accept full responsibility for the shoddy bucket of whatever it was that didn't work - very sorry (though I doubt we can reimburse you for a wasted year at uni).

    If you could kindly, or not-so-kindly, let support@mendeley.com know what caused the trouble, we'll be happy to fix it. Since you're specifically referring to PDFs, the integrated PDF viewer will receive a major speed and stability upgrade in our upcoming release (probably tomorrow or on Tuesday). Metadata extraction from PDFs will also be improved. More details on the new release here: http://www.mendeley.com/release-notes/

    So, apologies again for apparently ruining your Sunday.

    Sincerely yours,
    Victor

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