yEd Graph Editor

Funny how different my view of yEd is. For me, yEd can do what I couldn't elsewhere, mainly its autoarrange algorithms. For a beautiful price on top of that.

While there are certainly things yEd cannot do well and definitely there's also stuff that Visio does better, I would not use a forum to measure the usefulness of any software: People simply don't post questions about stuff that works! It's a forum where users are requesting help with their problems; not a review board. Of course all of the questions are about problems and just because there are a lot of questions in a forum doesn't meant that the software doesn't work for the majority of the users. Instead, it gives you an idea about how many people are using it and about the quality of support they get. Actually if you consider that this software is used by literally hundreds of thousands of users, given that there hardly is less than a dozen feature requests or questions which have more than 50 votes, I'd say that most users are actually quite happy with the software. Did you report your specific question/problem to the forum? Instead look at the reviews at this site, e.g. The big majority of the reviewers is quite happy with it.

@sebastianmuller At first: Anyone whose requirements it meets should definitely use it!

You wrote:

"I would not use a forum to measure the usefulness of any software: People simply don't post questions about stuff that works! It's a forum where users are requesting help with their problems; not a review board."

• What else would you use on a free software to decide if it is useful or not, while simultaneously testing it??? A look into the forum gives you a wide view on every kind of problem users are struggling with. Also, like most software, you have to test yourself how the features exactly work and what you can use them for. and what they can't do. In case of Yed, people do in fact post a lot of questions on features they expect to work differently as they really do, especially if their expectation would be more logical or the more common usecase.

"Of course all of the questions are about problems and just because there are a lot of questions in a forum doesn't meant that the software doesn't work for the majority of the users. Instead, it gives you an idea about how many people are using it and about the quality of support they get."

• I don't know how this is meant, because I've never said that it wouldn't fit on anyone's usecase. I also did not criticize the support quality. In my opiniion the developer does his best to help people with their questions and problems.

"Did you report your specific question/problem to the forum?"

• I did, and I wasn't alone with several problems.

"Actually if you consider that this software is used by literally hundreds of thousands of users, given that there hardly is less than a dozen feature requests or questions which have more than 50 votes, I'd say that most users are actually quite happy with the software."
..... "Instead look at the reviews at this site, e.g. The big majority of the reviewers is quite happy with it.

• Again, I don' know what you're suggesting, or how this relates to my review. The good reviews brought me to test Yed, but I just didn't come to the same conclusion as other reviewers. This reads almost like you want to say my "average" review isn't justified because such a lot of people are happy with Yed, or you're accusing me wanting to hold someone off to use this software. Both would be ridiculous. What I wrote in my review, especially in the first few sentences, is related to my usecase(s), which usually contain complex networks/function diagrams of up to several hundreds nodes with varying properties and reflects only my experience.