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Tech bros and absolutely zero social competence. Name one more iconic duo.
What a shithole and the lead dev seems to be a fucking idiot.
~~How so? I mean, I am tempted to agree. Reaching out to that unofficial community to improve their conduct instead of just ignoring them is pretty idiotic. But, are you sure you've read the linked page and understood its content?~~
I didn't pay attention when reading the linked page. Its author is/was the creator of wlroots, not hyprland. He reached out to the lead dev of hyprland which is very much associated with the discord community. I got so much wrong reading that ...
Sorry for being contrarian.
They mean the hyprland lead dev, not the dev in the article. In fact the lead dev brushed off the who/cares thing in a podcast and compared himself to Terry Davis.
Looks like I didn't understood what I read. I should have paid more attention.
Simply by how they reacted to the CoC suggestion on the Github page.
To be fair, as a dev, I wouldn't want to bother with that either, and much rather hand that stuff over to a moderator or a community manager. Then again, I'd also wouldn't run a discord or a forum for those exact same reasons.
Dito. I would want to deal with technical problems, not social ones. If people start to fight over social norms in my technical community, I would advise them to take that elsewhere. (Of course same if people behave like assholes.)
Then again I wouldn't create a fucking discord "server" for a technical topic in the first place.
Like I said, the problem isn't that they are against CoC. The problem is how they reacted to the post. Alone the last "Nice on" as an reaction to your typical idiotic "BuT WhAT If I WaNT tO Be A ToXIC CoMmUniTy" rebuttal, tells me enough about their mental maturity. So yes from that and the other responses, I call the dev an Idiot.
I'm not sure if I follow. Someone made or quoted a childish argument, and they chose to not engage. What's wrong with that?
I got a lot wrong initially reading that blog post (updated my comment accordingly). Though, I can sympathize with what he's saying in that screenshot specifically. If I did maintain a popular open source project I'd rather completdly remove the social aspect than try and manage it.
Out of topic, but damn, this is what I like about Lemmy. Just people admitting their mistakes and people moving on without making a fuss. I missed this so much. Reddit is extremely toxic and is hard to see when you are inside
Lead dev is a pompous asshole who gets offended by clarifying questions, doesn't even take long to find an example
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1817#issuecomment-1509207084
Lololol