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This community is laughably caustic and abusive. My friend attempted to create a simple tutorial site and their org harassed him for over a year. He didn't ev

by mertleee 10mo ago

This community is laughably caustic and abusive. My friend attempted to create a simple tutorial site and their org harassed him for over a year. He didn't even mention the word "meshtastic" and they made dozens of false trademark claims that his site could be "confused" with an official site. I was previously a fan, but I'd never seen behavior like that from an "open source" project.

bb88 10mo ago
One thing to keep in mind is that it's not even a very good mesh network. There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic. Or find my comments on meshtastic here. If anything they showed there's demand for a public mesh. Unfortunately, they didn't want to learn from AlohaNet or any of the other meshes.
- swaits 10mo ago
  You’re understating it. Meshtastic is horribly designed. If you designed a wireless mesh network making all the worst possible choices, with the most shortsighted design decisions imaginable, you’d get something a little better than Meshtastic.
- notashock69 10mo ago
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- vdqtp3 10mo ago
  > There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic Do you have a link? I went through recent ZT issues and didn't find what you're referring to
- mertleee 10mo ago
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- Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 10mo ago
  Alohanet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet
kop316 10mo ago
Heh, that isn't my experience. I created a client Linux: https://gitlab.com/kop316/gtk-meshtastic-client https://gitlab.com/kop316/gtk-meshtastic-client and even posted it on their discussion page: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99 https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99 . One of the maintainers responded positively to me: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99#discussioncomment-11439776 https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99#discussion... .
sandos 10mo ago
I have not seen that at all. Honestly, people are almost too welcoming and also maybe even too accepting of PRs for example.

bb88 10mo ago

One thing to keep in mind is that it's not even a very good mesh network. There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic. Or find my comments on meshtastic here. If anything they showed there's demand for a public mesh. Unfortunately, they didn't want to learn from AlohaNet or any of the other meshes.

swaits 10mo ago
You’re understating it. Meshtastic is horribly designed. If you designed a wireless mesh network making all the worst possible choices, with the most shortsighted design decisions imaginable, you’d get something a little better than Meshtastic.
notashock69 10mo ago
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vdqtp3 10mo ago
> There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic Do you have a link? I went through recent ZT issues and didn't find what you're referring to
mertleee 10mo ago
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Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe 10mo ago
Alohanet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet

kop316 10mo ago

Heh, that isn't my experience. I created a client Linux: https://gitlab.com/kop316/gtk-meshtastic-client https://gitlab.com/kop316/gtk-meshtastic-client and even posted it on their discussion page: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99 https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99 . One of the maintainers responded positively to me: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99#discussioncomment-11439776 https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99#discussion... .

sandos 10mo ago

I have not seen that at all. Honestly, people are almost too welcoming and also maybe even too accepting of PRs for example.