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Do you ever get scared of being eating up by a community for reporting problems. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by mtchristo@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org
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Have you ever been scared or hesitant about reporting flaws or bugs to a community with a strong staunch fanbase ??

Obviously there are different ways of reporting and starting discussions, but I brought up the courage to report a flaw on a subreddit (not to be named) that I knew is very sensitive to criticisme, and I was flooded with downvotes and even was subject to gaslighting, so I gave up on that software and became even more hesitant about reporting problems on other FOSS communities .

Is this mindset very prevalent among all open source communities? have you faced something similar ?

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[-] JaxiiRuff@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Do it anyway and ignore the backlash. If no one reports it then it will never be addressed. Its the drawing of attention to the matter that counts in my opinion.

The only complaint I have is that most communities or devs prefer you to open issues on places such as github instead but I feel it doesnt really matter since not everyone is willing to take the extra steps.

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 11 points 1 year ago

As a software developer, this is constructive:

open issues on places such as github

This is bitching:

it doesnt really matter since not everyone is willing to take the extra steps.

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