Forum: Across support
Topic: The end of Across
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: The comparison tool's URL is actually useful here
[quote]Theo Bernards wrote:
The comparison tool from Proz is equally tainted: just because a few of us here are verbal and verbose enough to voice an opinion, that doesn't mean that the voices on our screens are right - far from it. The venom used in some contributions to that tool makes you wonder what Across has done to those translators in terms of setting a house on fire or stealing a vegetable garden's harvest... [/quote]
Yes, but if you read past the venom, you'll see some actual facts being mentioned (particularly in the reviews consisting of more than one sentence), which I find quite useful.
However, it makes no sense to me that "reviews" consisting of one single negative sentence could be marked as "useful review" by so many people, because such a review is useless to me. When I choose a CAT tool, it will not be based on a popularity contest.
I myself would not recommend Across to anyone and I would advise against it if anyone should ask me, and such advice is based on my personal experience with it. However, my experience has been fairly limited and it may well be that the tool can be useful beyond the first hurdles.
Topic: The end of Across
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: The comparison tool's URL is actually useful here
[quote]Theo Bernards wrote:
The comparison tool from Proz is equally tainted: just because a few of us here are verbal and verbose enough to voice an opinion, that doesn't mean that the voices on our screens are right - far from it. The venom used in some contributions to that tool makes you wonder what Across has done to those translators in terms of setting a house on fire or stealing a vegetable garden's harvest... [/quote]
Yes, but if you read past the venom, you'll see some actual facts being mentioned (particularly in the reviews consisting of more than one sentence), which I find quite useful.
However, it makes no sense to me that "reviews" consisting of one single negative sentence could be marked as "useful review" by so many people, because such a review is useless to me. When I choose a CAT tool, it will not be based on a popularity contest.
I myself would not recommend Across to anyone and I would advise against it if anyone should ask me, and such advice is based on my personal experience with it. However, my experience has been fairly limited and it may well be that the tool can be useful beyond the first hurdles.