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You dont have to answer silly questions (media.piefed.social)

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 31 points 2 months ago

Or being german.

Germans in technical forums are not as good at english as they think they are

[-] Stitch0815@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

Excuse me zis is wery rude of u

Wi germanz are wery vell wersed in inglish

[-] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

German or French…

Both love open source stuff but their English can be hit or miss lol

Source: am mostly German, living in Germany, working in IT

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Proxmox forums can be outright disastrous

[-] pewpew@feddit.it 28 points 2 months ago

mgba. Make a pull request, the owner rather than merging it closes the pr, saying you were unrespectul and that your code sucks. Owner proceeds to implement the changes manually instead of crediting you

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've seen more than a few crashouts in emulation and gaming related open source devs, and the best advice I have is:

Make an actual fucking wiki, or have someone make it for you. Having everyone funneled into discord where you inevitably end up answerimg the same basic ass questions over and over because search is impossible is soul crushing.
If handling the "social" side of it, as in responding to issues, pull requests, or running a discord server for it is startijng to get to you, fucking ignore them/close them. Or delegate it to someone else.
Try to keep your identity as an open source dev separate from your other identities unless you want to deal with drama related to your software every fucking moment online. Find a way to get some space.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Discord is really a terrible place to discuss issues and how-to’s. Whatever happened to just having a forum? Topics and threads keep things organized better

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago

Don't you know? Discord has a god awful, half implemented, and still practically unsearchable thread system now! You don't ever have to leave! You wouldn't want to leave. You're not allowed to leave.

[-] AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Discord us great for a starting project with a few folks where rapid replies and collaborative work are key, and you only have a few users.

Once you have grown past that phase, get a fucking forum.

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

These days, the majority of users refuse to use anything except discord, unless they're willing to leap further into the abyss and ask an LLM. Forums end up dead, with very few users asking anything, and no one except devs coming back regularly to answer questions, so they still end up with devs dealing with every question themselves.

[-] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

I briefly considered starting an open source game project but seeing this kind of stuff keeps me away Lol.

Also my code sucks - Which doesn't stop me from making games but still.

[-] nixus@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 months ago

/me glares at TTRSS after seeing this meme

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

lol can you give any example?

[-] maam@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago

Watch out you're likely to be bashed on the head for asking the Betterbird devs questions.

[-] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 2 months ago

Gnome

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

And Gtk.

[-] besmtt@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Valetudo. 😮‍💨😞

[-] notarobot@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Completely unrelated but I wanted to share my favorite case of drama ever

External coverage (YouTube link)

[Original post by the manufacturer] (https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-project/), with glorious quotes like

"UPDATE 2: System76’s Principal Engineer decided to chime in and make a fool of himself, so we banned the entire state of Colorado for life."

this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025

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