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> I get lost, plus I have to go, sign up and then report etc That's the exact experience I had trying to report an issue for duckduckgo. Using Github (which I

by Ntrails 10y ago

> I get lost, plus I have to go, sign up and then report etc That's the exact experience I had trying to report an issue for duckduckgo. Using Github (which I've never really used). It's not that github is flawless - you're just used to it.

thewhitetulip 10y ago
Yes, I know. This is a painful process and it isn't just painful because of the UI, there is a reason why Github became so popular, the founders started working to create a webapp to democratize FOSS. Because they said that earlier when you contributed to FOSS you'd have to send the diff and the merge person would not be able to merge everything so only those who knew them would get their PRs merged, when we add in a nice "merge pull request" button in a nice UI, it becomes simple. Yes, I am used to Github, but that's not the total point, I never log out of github, it is the only webapp which I am 24x7 logged into (in my browser of course). Every other webapp I logout. That's why it is no hassle to report issues on Github. Also I have very very limited amount of personal time if you remove office and commute, in one year, I have learned how to write webapps in Go and written a tutorial on it, I did this while handling my <1yr nephew and having only 2hrs daily and 6-7hrs on weekends (https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...). There are many constraints & I have very limited time, thus github is a convenience, not that I like github's issue tracker, I wrote a todo manager for myself and I rarely use Github's tools for tracking things which I build.
- Ntrails 10y ago
  > There are many constraints & I have very limited time, thus github is a convenience It's a convenience for you - for me it's as inconvenient if nor more so than Firefox's homerolled issue tracker. Now, I suspect that the people filing bugreports fit your profile more than mine and so maybe you're right? But it's worth acknowledging that they may not be optimising for you.
  - thewhitetulip 10y ago
    of course it is a convenience for me, I was talking about myself and not about anyone else! My point wasn't in pointing out if someone is right or wrong, it was just explaining why I haven't raised issues on Firefox ever. It seems they now support github login, so now, if I encounter an issue, I will raise it. I do allow telemetry stuff to contribute my share :)

by Ntrails 10y ago

thewhitetulip 10y ago

Yes, I know. This is a painful process and it isn't just painful because of the UI, there is a reason why Github became so popular, the founders started working to create a webapp to democratize FOSS. Because they said that earlier when you contributed to FOSS you'd have to send the diff and the merge person would not be able to merge everything so only those who knew them would get their PRs merged, when we add in a nice "merge pull request" button in a nice UI, it becomes simple. Yes, I am used to Github, but that's not the total point, I never log out of github, it is the only webapp which I am 24x7 logged into (in my browser of course). Every other webapp I logout. That's why it is no hassle to report issues on Github. Also I have very very limited amount of personal time if you remove office and commute, in one year, I have learned how to write webapps in Go and written a tutorial on it, I did this while handling my <1yr nephew and having only 2hrs daily and 6-7hrs on weekends (https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...). There are many constraints & I have very limited time, thus github is a convenience, not that I like github's issue tracker, I wrote a todo manager for myself and I rarely use Github's tools for tracking things which I build.

Ntrails 10y ago
> There are many constraints & I have very limited time, thus github is a convenience It's a convenience for you - for me it's as inconvenient if nor more so than Firefox's homerolled issue tracker. Now, I suspect that the people filing bugreports fit your profile more than mine and so maybe you're right? But it's worth acknowledging that they may not be optimising for you.
- thewhitetulip 10y ago
  of course it is a convenience for me, I was talking about myself and not about anyone else! My point wasn't in pointing out if someone is right or wrong, it was just explaining why I haven't raised issues on Firefox ever. It seems they now support github login, so now, if I encounter an issue, I will raise it. I do allow telemetry stuff to contribute my share :)