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My Love-Hate Relationship With Lemmy – Gavi's Blog (jewy.blog)
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I made a blog post discussing my biggest issues with Lemmy and why I am kind of done with it as a software.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Even “Why don’t you open an issue on our source tracker” will often effectively shut down suggestions from less tech savvy newcomers.

How should developers handle feature requests? Keep in mind there is a need for the whole team to see the suggestion and it's also good to have a place to gather feedback and further discuss.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Community managers - sometimes just talking about your issue with someone will help tremendously in figuring out how to put it and they often can just do it for you. That said, Lemmy devs do not value work being put in the issue tracker - they have admitted to not reading it. People who cannot contribute code are just entirely ignored and have no power in the project's direction.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I suspect the small size of the dev team and the general nature of an OSS project means there aren't swarms of people around volunteering to be community managers.

    Small projects your sway with the project is directly proportional to your ability to submit pull requests. It's just a sad fact that it's easier to say "I wish we had feature X" vs. "Here is a pull request that implements feature X".

    At least with OSS you are getting what you paid for (nothing!), vs commercial companies where you pay for the software and they STILL ignore you.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean, I essentially proposed to do this myself in private conversations with Dessalines but there was no willingness for a shared roadmap so it felt pretty pointless.

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