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Nobody forks anymore. Almost nobody contributes anymore. People have no idea that's it's mainly charity. And even then people demand, get angry, don't read any
by jbverschoor 5y ago
Nobody forks anymore. Almost nobody contributes anymore.
People have no idea that's it's mainly charity. And even then people demand, get angry, don't read any docs, etc, etc.
Bigtech sometimes helps by employing these guys. What is really needed is a service, which does the moderation and filtering. Kind of like oss communication management as a service. For example by github.
- scruffyherder 5y agoSomething like the patreon thing for sure which also means community outreach and engagement. It also means supporting other people and stepping up. It’s so few and far that’ll pay value for value.
- mook 5y agoI think that was always the case — the majority of people don't contribute meaningfully, and was quite demanding. I had an old open source project that got a few users, and eventually too many support requests for me to handle. Somebody stepped up and helped maintain things until I lost interest, but that was a very tiny fraction of the people involved. I was lucky there and (as far as I know) they never went rouge. Outsourced moderation would probably end up something like Stack Overflow — useful things will be closed because non-subject-experts can't tell the difference between invalid questions and valid questions that look like invalid questions.