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I kinda blame Github for all this. In the past, there was just a bit of friction before filing a bug or dropping a comment on a project. You had to sign up fo
by bsder 4y ago
I kinda blame Github for all this.
In the past, there was just a bit of friction before filing a bug or dropping a comment on a project.
You had to sign up for bugzilla. You had to sign up for the mailing list. Something. Anything.
It was just enough friction that you had to want to post that comment or file that bug. You weren't going to waste your time just to be a shit.
With everything on Github, it's simply too easy to quickly slap a thoughtless comment on a project (guilty as charged--sadly).
I know that if I were releasing a project today, I would make sure to use anything other than Github.
- throwaway0129u 4y ago> With everything on Github, it's simply too easy to quickly slap a thoughtless comment on a project THIS! The UI really encourages drive-by comments from anybody. Like social networks, it's designed to maximize views and clicks instead of building communities.
- microtonal 4y agoI see what you are saying. But on the other hand, I definitely neglected to report bugs in the past because I had to subscribe to a mailing list or sign up for another yet another bugzilla account (combined with bugzilla often being terribly slow). I think GitHub has provided a net improvement because many smaller project get bug reports now (whereas they usually didn't in pre-GitHub times), while they usually do not have to deal with frivolous comments. I have many smaller projects that do get issues filed, but never useless comments.
- Kwpolska 4y agoIf you want to do some harm, you’ll jump through any hoops, including signing up for mailing lists. But if you want to make a meaningful contribution, and you’re faced with too many absurd requirements, you might just give up.
- dom96 4y agoThis is actually a fair point and shouldn't be getting downvotes. Github has decreased the barrier to entry and sadly that has its disadvantages.