Announcing MinimServer 2.1

[simoncn]

Because of the way this feature is implemented, increasing the number of recent items degrades browsing performance, especially with a large library. The limit of 1000 has been chosen as a compromise to ensure browsing performance is not degraded too much.

In the early days of MinimServer, a number of options were added in response to user requests. These options are all described in the user guide, together with examples of what they do. The result has been that some people now find MinimServer is too complex to understand and use and the user guide is difficult to read and understand.

Learning from this experience, my approach now when adding new features is to provide options only when there is a very clear need for them and they are simple to explain and understand. In this case, I think the meaning of the selections "Last day", "Last week", etc. is clear and intuitive. Adding an option to make "Last week" actually mean "Last week but not last day" (etc.) would be less intuitive and would add complexity.