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Don't be that guy. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by hperrin@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

When you're talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don't like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

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[-] IgnacioM@lemmy.ml 41 points 11 months ago

I see this in the comments section of Skyrim mods and it pisses me off so much

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Worse, I see this with Fediverse platforms like Lemmy. During the initial Reddit influx so many people expected the exact level of polish and user experience as Reddit and there were tons of threads (on Lemmy itself) basically complaining how much Lemmy "sucks" compared to Reddit, despite them coming over to Lemmy because Reddit was being enshitified. Same with Mastodon when the Twitter people were coming over.

[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

I mean to be fair it's still terrible. Better than the early days and in my opinion better than using Reddit which is why I'm here. But basic functionality is just awful. Trying to discover new content outside of your particular instances incredibly tedious. So many large instances won't stop trigger happy Banning practically every other goddamn instance out there which isn't helping. The whole thing that originally made Reddit popular was that it was an easy place to go to find almost any topic of Interest but I now have to hunt through many different instances to potentially find what I'm looking for on top of that the community for any one particular interest could easily be scattered across multiple different instances that don't Federate with each other and if I subscribe to all of them I'm going to likely be subjected to a lot of repeating posts

I fully understand why a lot of people were not on board with that I put up with it because I hate Reddit more than I hate that but a lot of people will not share that opinion

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Keep in mind though that Lemmy is very much still in open beta while Reddit has been a mature product for years now. Lemmy only started federating like two years ago, and even compared to other Fediverse platforms Lemmy is still very new. Most of the "must have" features people associate with Reddit took a while to materialize as well, in fact when Reddit launched it didn't have subreddits or even nested comments on posts. Not saying your grievances are invalid, but give it time and things will improve as Lemmy gets more development.

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

IIRC it always had threaded comments but yes subreddits took years. Shamefully I was very much in the anti subreddit camp and argued fiercely for tags instead like Flickr (RIP)

Lemmy with Sync is pretty baller though not sure what everyone is complaining about.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It's every game and the bigger the community the lower the denominator.

this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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