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I understand the gripes OP is having. But as a maintainer, it's also downright exhausting to have so many people complaining about random quirky missing feature
by OsrsNeedsf2P 10mo ago
I understand the gripes OP is having. But as a maintainer, it's also downright exhausting to have so many people complaining about random quirky missing features or setups that I can't replicate.
If you can contribute improvements in a low-friction way, I will happily improve it. But if you're just going to complain ...
- Aloha 10mo agoI'm a product manager in my day job - and, I guess the gripe I have with FOSS stuff, is they're all too often designed as expert systems - which is great, super powerful, lots of control, but not suited to the workflows actual users just want to do out of the box.
- bigyabai 10mo ago"FOSS stuff" encompasses tons of software, from 1980s emacs distros to 2020-era GNOME music players. And the simple, workflow-focused FOSS tools I use are great.
- popalchemist 10mo agoCategory error. FOSS is typically not made for consumers to use directly. At least, not the source code. Downloadable binaries, that's another thing.
- jjmarr 10mo agoThere's an impedance mismatch between what developers want (work on advanced features & clean code) and users want (have a product that fits their specific workflow then gets out of the way). This is solved by users giving the developers money so the developer will do what the user wants. Sometimes a business sits in the middle to facilitate this transaction. I've almost never seen FOSS figure out a good way of fixing this mismatch. The rare exceptions are when people derive intrinsic joy from getting marketshare against an evil corporation. Or Space Station 13, which let anyone add half-baked broken features and the interaction between it all was part of the fun.
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