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I just had a look at the OpenCart issue tracker and its not an isolated incident. There's a bunch of closed issues where the devs were incredibly rude to people

I just had a look at the OpenCart issue tracker and its not an isolated incident. There's a bunch of closed issues where the devs were incredibly rude to people while dismissing their concerns. Its true that in many of these cases the issue wasn't with OpenCart, but they could have just said "This issue isn't with OpenCart, its <blah>, closing." Not stuff like (and this is a real comment by a dev of OpenCart): "you are a moron! svg is not an image format!" and then when other people tried to help: "don't reply to this guy hes a scumbag". Riiiiight. Often the issues were closed without response and when the submitter asked why, they get an incredibly rude and arrogant response. I hope I never have to work with these assholes.

trebor 7y ago
I reported an issue about them using SHA1 for password storage years ago. I was insulted and attacked personally, called a spammer, blocked, etc. So I washed my hands of the project, when I was considering it for a project at work. (I looked at password security first...) It's funny, but the dev's response has since "disappeared". Still some ignorance in the thread (thinking that multiple layers of SHA1 was safe) but hopefully history has vindicated my position at that time. Never use OpenCart for anything. There's no point, when you'll be insulted and unsupported. And don't work with the owner/contributor: https://github.com/danielkerr https://github.com/danielkerr
- dcbadacd 7y ago
  There's quite a few "fun" OpenCart issues listed here whoever is interested: https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama The dev is indeed really incompetent for behaving like that.
- dkersten 7y ago
  I love how in the password hashing one he first says something like "ok doesn't look too hard to do X" and then shortly after "I'm closing this, its a waste of time". Wow. Also, his response here is amazing: https://web.archive.org/web/20160120051637/https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/3834 https://web.archive.org/web/20160120051637/https://github.co...

trebor 7y ago

I reported an issue about them using SHA1 for password storage years ago. I was insulted and attacked personally, called a spammer, blocked, etc. So I washed my hands of the project, when I was considering it for a project at work. (I looked at password security first...) It's funny, but the dev's response has since "disappeared". Still some ignorance in the thread (thinking that multiple layers of SHA1 was safe) but hopefully history has vindicated my position at that time. Never use OpenCart for anything. There's no point, when you'll be insulted and unsupported. And don't work with the owner/contributor: https://github.com/danielkerr https://github.com/danielkerr

dcbadacd 7y ago
There's quite a few "fun" OpenCart issues listed here whoever is interested: https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama https://github.com/nikolas/github-drama The dev is indeed really incompetent for behaving like that.
dkersten 7y ago
I love how in the password hashing one he first says something like "ok doesn't look too hard to do X" and then shortly after "I'm closing this, its a waste of time". Wow. Also, his response here is amazing: https://web.archive.org/web/20160120051637/https://github.com/opencart/opencart/issues/3834 https://web.archive.org/web/20160120051637/https://github.co...