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Various people suggested or demanded various things for various reasons. Some described company controls. Some described company policies without controls. Som

Various people suggested or demanded various things for various reasons. Some described company controls. Some described company policies without controls. Some described their own strong feelings. Some had auto updated. Some had not. Some did not say. Some supported their companies' policies. Some stressed the policies were out of their control. Some did not say. Some asked how to make sure the integration was disabled. Some did ask for a setting an IT department could manage. Some demanded a plugin or separate build. Some said a plugin would work for them. Many things don't make sense if you assume everyone you disagree with are a collective.

joshstrange 2y ago
I didn't assume they were a collective. I read through many of the comments on the GitLab issue as they were happening and there wasn't as single valid complaint. Not one. Zero. Zilch. It was opt in, full stop. That should have been the end of this aside from IT managers asking for a group policy or a was to disable the feature (in a nice way). Everyone complaining could either not update or move to a different tool and ask for a refund... oh wait... that's right, this was open source software. And people wonder why no one wants to maintain open source software. Just add this whole ordeal to the ever-growing pile of reasons why it's almost not worth doing. People are so entitled. My personal favorite were the people that said "If you remove this I'll start support you monetarily", which I assume 99% of those people were lying through their teeth based on the lack of spike in new donations to his patreon [0]. [0] https://graphtreon.com/creator/gnachman https://graphtreon.com/creator/gnachman
- pseudalopex 2y ago
  You combined parts of different comments, ignored others, and claimed the combination represented all. Some were IT managers. Some were users capable to speak for their IT managers. Some did not say. There was no reason comments should have been limited to identified IT managers. Some asked how to make sure the feature was disabled. Some did ask for a group policy. Some asked for a plugin or separate build because a group policy would not satisfy their company's requirements. The maintainer solicited these requests even though he disagreed with the requirements. Some blocked the update. Some rolled back. You must know unsupported software has costs. Do people wonder why more people don't maintain open source software? Most people don't maintain open source software. They have reasons. I think they can imagine other people not maintaining open source software for the same reasons. I maintained open source software. Attitudes like yours tired me more than the rude minority of users. Patreon is 1 of 6 donation methods. And I don't think the people who offered to pay $50 meant monthly.

joshstrange 2y ago

I didn't assume they were a collective. I read through many of the comments on the GitLab issue as they were happening and there wasn't as single valid complaint. Not one. Zero. Zilch. It was opt in, full stop. That should have been the end of this aside from IT managers asking for a group policy or a was to disable the feature (in a nice way). Everyone complaining could either not update or move to a different tool and ask for a refund... oh wait... that's right, this was open source software. And people wonder why no one wants to maintain open source software. Just add this whole ordeal to the ever-growing pile of reasons why it's almost not worth doing. People are so entitled. My personal favorite were the people that said "If you remove this I'll start support you monetarily", which I assume 99% of those people were lying through their teeth based on the lack of spike in new donations to his patreon [0]. [0] https://graphtreon.com/creator/gnachman https://graphtreon.com/creator/gnachman

pseudalopex 2y ago
You combined parts of different comments, ignored others, and claimed the combination represented all. Some were IT managers. Some were users capable to speak for their IT managers. Some did not say. There was no reason comments should have been limited to identified IT managers. Some asked how to make sure the feature was disabled. Some did ask for a group policy. Some asked for a plugin or separate build because a group policy would not satisfy their company's requirements. The maintainer solicited these requests even though he disagreed with the requirements. Some blocked the update. Some rolled back. You must know unsupported software has costs. Do people wonder why more people don't maintain open source software? Most people don't maintain open source software. They have reasons. I think they can imagine other people not maintaining open source software for the same reasons. I maintained open source software. Attitudes like yours tired me more than the rude minority of users. Patreon is 1 of 6 donation methods. And I don't think the people who offered to pay $50 meant monthly.