Benny Yamagata
My feedback
3 results found
-
38 votes
Church Headquarters is planning to give us the access needed to accomplish this.
An error occurred while saving the comment -
54 votes
We had this tentatively planned on our roadmap and still feel it is a great idea, but recently our small volunteer team has been overwhelmed with other priorities. Hopefully we can revisit this in the future.
An error occurred while saving the comment I am slightly in agreement with this. However I think the better way to do it rather than actual pages on the screen is allow the user a choice. Would you rather have one large page, multiple pages, multiple pages with columns (like ther poster suggested), or (and this is my suggestion) to have it similar to apps like vscode or chrome, where I can pull the tab I am working in off and create a completely separate window for one scripture, and use the main app to open another one and allow multi window experiences.
-
1 vote
I am going to be the (apparently) unpopular voice here.
For demographics, I am a 28 year old in Utah in a YSA ward.
The YSA's would not do well with this. The poster makes some bold assumptions about the population of the church (which may be true in their experience, but is not necessarily true overall)
First, to think that this is "rather simple" is an understatement. Unless you are a software engineer yourself that also has experience with development on this particular app, you have no say in whether or not something is simple or easy.
Second, you assume that Ward Leaders regularly update their information and such at the current time. I can tell you that my bishop does not even know how to update the ward calendar. We don't even use the ward calendar or even the stake calendar. They do, however, use facebook and instagram often, and they are active on our ward facebook and instagram pages.
Third, I would not say that I spend more time in tools over gospel library, but I will say that I do not expect an app that is called a "Library" to try and give me notifications about events going on in my ward. I strongly feel that functionality belongs in "Tools" because that is what it is, a tool.
Finally, this does not solve the age-old question. This simply adds another route to make things even more confusing, or to make older men in the bishoprics think they have solved it, when they are in fact possibly reaching even less people than before. Your answer to this question assumes that everyone has Gospel Library, when I know many members that dont and just use the scriptures on churchofjesuschrist.org. Your question assumes that everyone Wants to receive notifications from the Church, when many members dont. They just want to come and participate and then go home. And what of the less actives? The inactives? Investigators? People starting to return to activity, but are not quite there yet?
I'm not trying to beat this idea into the ground. Only saying that there are some serious considerations to make when doing stuff like this. We have already seen the Church of Jesus Christ in other areas throughout this pandemic start to abandon creating their own technology in favor of using existing technology that is simply better for this. (eg: The EOL for the church webcast system in favor of zoom). Couple that with some serious holes in logic in this suggestion and I would say this is just going to pour resources into yet another thing that members will not use.
I think that if you want to communicate with members of your ward, then go ask them how they would like to be communicated with. If they want email, text, and marco polo, then why would you ever give them this app feature? It makes no sense.
Anyways, sorry for the long post. I would just like to see volunteer development resources put to good use in developing features that would be great for everyone.