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.

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 years ago

    Me approaching Foss developer with bug: Pardon me, if you could grace this lowly worm with but a moment of your attention; I with me a bug report, and I believe I have found the section of code responsible. This inadequate being lacks the technical expertise to fix it and would be eternally indebted if you would turn your monumental skills upon its trifling problems. It would please me immensely if my paltry efforts were of some assistance.

    This user: SOFTWARE NO WORK FUCK YOU!

    • ggppjj@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      And yet, this is the issue that gets a response instead of a silent closed offtopic wontfix.

        • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Never is a strong word when a collection of people all came together and agreed that Windows 10 should force updates.

      • NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        Or even worse:

        Thanks. Send a complete log of every software on your system, two videos of the bugs in action, and a detailed analysis of what you’ve had for breakfast.

  • mastefetri@infosec.pub
    1·
    2 years ago

    It depends on if the first guy is complaining about having to reinstall this specific software, or if the software borked his entire system to the point that he has to reinstall his entire OS. Because that happened to me once. But in the first scenario he is being a dick, and in the second one not so much.

  • gomp@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    User: “I have to waste my whole life fixing this” Dev: “you are complaining that you have to spend a few minutes”

    Savage.

  • Grain9325@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years 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
      1·
      2 years 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.