Or being german.
Germans in technical forums are not as good at english as they think they are
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German or French…
Both love open source stuff but their English can be hit or miss lol
Source: am mostly German, living in Germany, working in IT
Proxmox forums can be outright disastrous
Excuse me zis is wery rude of u
Wi germanz are wery vell wersed in inglish
At least they’re trying, it’s age old adage that it’s good to be confident.
The big problem is when you start getting into very technical discussions. That last 10% against the 90% familiarity that can make it word salad
Worse. Mine got confused about a cli tool only having a dump-to-json option not being user friendly.
mgba. Make a pull request, the owner rather than merging it closes the pr, saying you were unrespectul and that your code sucks. Owner proceeds to implement the changes manually instead of crediting you
I haven’t heard about those incidents before o_0. At least the code improved haha.
I wish I could find the source
It doesn't seem true. I don't know the program you are talking about but I'm guess it's This one. Seems like most PRS are accepted
Some devs don’t want people talking on the GitHub page.
I've seen more than a few crashouts in emulation and gaming related open source devs, and the best advice I have is:
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Make an actual fucking wiki, or have someone make it for you. Having everyone funneled into discord where you inevitably end up answerimg the same basic ass questions over and over because search is impossible is soul crushing.
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If handling the "social" side of it, as in responding to issues, pull requests, or running a discord server for it is startijng to get to you, fucking ignore them/close them. Or delegate it to someone else.
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Try to keep your identity as an open source dev separate from your other identities unless you want to deal with drama related to your software every fucking moment online. Find a way to get some space.
Discord is really a terrible place to discuss issues and how-to’s. Whatever happened to just having a forum? Topics and threads keep things organized better
Don't you know? Discord has a god awful, half implemented, and still practically unsearchable thread system now! You don't ever have to leave! You wouldn't want to leave. You're not allowed to leave.
These days, the majority of users refuse to use anything except discord, unless they're willing to leap further into the abyss and ask an LLM. Forums end up dead, with very few users asking anything, and no one except devs coming back regularly to answer questions, so they still end up with devs dealing with every question themselves.
Discord us great for a starting project with a few folks where rapid replies and collaborative work are key, and you only have a few users.
Once you have grown past that phase, get a fucking forum.
I briefly considered starting an open source game project but seeing this kind of stuff keeps me away Lol.
Also my code sucks - Which doesn't stop me from making games but still.
/me glares at TTRSS after seeing this meme
lol can you give any example?
Valetudo. 😮💨😞
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And Gtk.
Watch out you're likely to be bashed on the head for asking the Betterbird devs questions.
Completely unrelated but I wanted to share my favorite case of drama ever
External coverage (YouTube link)
[Original post by the manufacturer] (https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-project/), with glorious quotes like
"UPDATE 2: System76’s Principal Engineer decided to chime in and make a fool of himself, so we banned the entire state of Colorado for life."