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It wasn't really difficult to contribute to them about a year or two ago. I've contributed a couple of cheatsheets (for example, clicking on the info icon when
by r3bl 9y ago
It wasn't really difficult to contribute to them about a year or two ago. I've contributed a couple of cheatsheets (for example, clicking on the info icon when searching for "nmap cheatsheet" will reveal my GitHub username), which were, at the time, considered a low-hanging fruit way of contributing instant answers.
Later on, I was later on added to the DuckDuckHack Contributors team[0], which was border-line spamming, up to the point where I had to redirect email notifications from the DuckDuckGo organization to my non-primary email address. Occasional email is fine, a dozen or two dozens of emails in my inbox almost every single day was not.
And finally, I am aware that there was some grand change about how people contribute to DuckDuckGo introduced relatively recently, which makes my experience a bit outdated.
The combination of their actions after I've contributed to them made me pretty uninterested in the idea of contributing more instant answers. Nowadays, I only suggest bangs from time to time, which is as easy as filling out a form[1].
[0] https://github.com/orgs/duckduckgo/teams/duckduckhack-contributors https://github.com/orgs/duckduckgo/teams/duckduckhack-contri...
[1] https://duckduckgo.com/newbang https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
- yegg 9y agoSorry about the experience you had with the org. DuckDuckHack is indeed in maintenance mode right now as we couldn't figure out the best contribution model that scaled with the search engine, though are still thinking about how to do that. All of these new apps and extensions are open source though, and we'd welcome any contributions.