When you’re talking to an open source dev, just remember that they are literally giving you their time for free, and they are people who don’t like to be treated poorly.

Edit: Just to be clear, I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

Edit 2: The reinstalling he’s talking about is NPM. So just running npm install. It’s because he tried removing the node_modules directory, which is a reasonable thing to do, but it means you need to reinstall the modules with that command.

  • Grain9325@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    And here I am anxious thinking I might offend the devs so I spend way too much time thinking what I’ve written is not rude

    • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve only had beef with a single dev ever. The maintainer of Prometheus, Brian Brazil, or whatever his name is. His attitude is so shitty towards people proposing actually good ideas that would push his product forward.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 OWED 👏 CUSTOMER 👏 SERVICE 👏 FOR 👏 USING 👏 THIS 👏 SOFTWARE 👏

    YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 OWED 👏 A 👏 WARRANTY 👏

    Don’t like it? Pay for your software :)

  • OnlineAccount150@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t mean any ill will toward the guy. He’s frustrated and he’s just taking it out in the wrong venue at the wrong people, but that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person.

    But he is a bad person. He’s being a fucking idiot and being insulting to the person who made the software for him in the first place.

    People like that don’t deserve patience and understanding. Perhaps a good response would be “this software is free for you to use, if you don’t like it then fuck off and make your own”.