Quote Originally Posted by Callinon View Post
I cannot imagine the level of spaghetti code you guys must be dealing with to arrive at an explanation like that. My inner programmer has, in fact, curled up into a ball and is in the corner sucking his thumb. It's not pretty.

It does seem to re-emphasize the need to correct the underlying issue though. Your original database design was pants-on-head and that needs to be fixed. I appreciate the position you're in now having to work on a live product with this kind of design handicap, but that's the reality you're living in and if you ever want to make it to 7.0 you're going to need to address this sooner rather than later.

In the meantime I'll definitely take displaying everything on a single pane. I don't like tabs. After that, I recommend drinking.. a lot.
Basically this comes down to SE needs to hire more people to make up for the spaghetti code. Making a design decision due to lack of resources is sad (This happens all the time in software dev).