I see what you’re saying now: initially I misread your comment as “It seems [good] to provide a description of your desired software...” which led me to think you were able to access the article (“it”), which confused me. I also didn’t have problems when I tried the link, but of course it’s now obvious that was because I am the editor. I just fixed that—I’m not even sure how I ended up copying the edit post link anyway.
FWIW, to address (2) and (1b), I was just trying to ask people if there is any “help me find [or build] a software solution” service (preferably but not necessarily within EA), or if I should just post a full message/question about it on the forum. I was not (yet) trying to ask people to find specific software for me. So, for efficiency’s sake, this post was indeed somewhat low effort—hence the posting via shortform. But including the wrong link and overlooking one important word in your reply are definitely mistakes on my part.
I see what you’re saying now: initially I misread your comment as “It seems [
good] to provide a description of your desired software...” which led me to think you were able to access the article (“it”), which confused me. I also didn’t have problems when I tried the link, but of course it’s now obvious that was because I am the editor. I just fixed that—I’m not even sure how I ended up copying the edit post link anyway.FWIW, to address (2) and (1b), I was just trying to ask people if there is any “help me find [or build] a software solution” service (preferably but not necessarily within EA), or if I should just post a full message/question about it on the forum. I was not (yet) trying to ask people to find specific software for me. So, for efficiency’s sake, this post was indeed somewhat low effort—hence the posting via shortform. But including the wrong link and overlooking one important word in your reply are definitely mistakes on my part.