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This whole sub-thread is rich in verbiage but doesn't have enough meaning were it broth to nourish a mouse. User: I tried it and it didn't work well don't care

This whole sub-thread is rich in verbiage but doesn't have enough meaning were it broth to nourish a mouse. User: I tried it and it didn't work well don't care whose fault it is I just care that it didn't work. Response: Every developer that flings non-working buggy software into the void is entitled to the free labor of their users who will test said software and write bug reports so that in the fullness of time it may someday be worth using. If you by the mere act of downloading something once don't see yourself as part of that developers community then your opinion is clearly invalid because you are like unto a leper unclean and outside the nourishing light of our lord! A proper reproduction of the bug, troubleshooting, research into existing bug reports and possible causes both in the immediate and upstream project and writing it up could easily be half an hour not seconds. Meanwhile 17 other things have claims on our time. It is perfectly acceptable to shoot the shit on a forum about how you dropped a non-working project like a chicken nugget with a human finger in it without also opening an issue. Do you know what people do when they install your software and it crashes on first run. They delete it without comment because they are not indebted to you by being granted to privilege of non-working software and running something else is liable to be a better investment of their time. This isn't abnormal or malicious its absolutely normal. This is also why your software which has a bug that effects 10,000 people gets 5 bug reports. It's not because the other 9,995 people noticed the bug had already been filed its because none of them bothered. Pretending this is something abhorrent and invalidating is quite frankly a gross failure of analysis committed in service of invalidating a negative perspective that seemed to stick in your craw.

rektide 3y ago
Then the user gripes complains & badmouths, and are left behind. But quickly their position crumbles. No advocates for their position maintain. What they were doing stops working. The user is swept under the sands of time & forgotten. This putting all the onus on the developers is insufficient. The user doesn't have to advocate for themselves, no. Time happily can ignore their plight. We don't need them. The rest of the open society world is participating onwards.
- michaelmrose 3y ago
  This is a discussion thread. We aren't herein trying to address issues or our concerns to decision makers or effect change in the wider world. We are merely giving our personal perspective on matters without the reasonable expectation that comments negative or positive will find their way to sympathetic nor hostile ears. All our commentary was always destined to be forgotten.

rektide 3y ago

Then the user gripes complains & badmouths, and are left behind. But quickly their position crumbles. No advocates for their position maintain. What they were doing stops working. The user is swept under the sands of time & forgotten. This putting all the onus on the developers is insufficient. The user doesn't have to advocate for themselves, no. Time happily can ignore their plight. We don't need them. The rest of the open society world is participating onwards.

michaelmrose 3y ago
This is a discussion thread. We aren't herein trying to address issues or our concerns to decision makers or effect change in the wider world. We are merely giving our personal perspective on matters without the reasonable expectation that comments negative or positive will find their way to sympathetic nor hostile ears. All our commentary was always destined to be forgotten.