Derek Powazek 🐐Criticizing mastodon continues to be the least fun thing to do on mastodon.
Y’all realize that accepting criticism and mining it for good ideas is just what you have to do when you run community projects, right? And that lack of criticism means you’re failing, because people don’t criticize things they’ve given up on, right?
The core problem with all social software is that it winds up being run by people who love software more than people.
When users of your project tell you what they need, they’re giving you a fucking gift. You should accept it with grace, even if you don’t like the content of it. It’s a gift. You say thank you. And then you think about it.
That doesn’t mean you do everything everyone asks. But there’s important shit to learn in there and if you run a community project it’s your job to find it.
ErosBlog Bacchus has moved!@fraying What? No! That's not it at all. Based on my experience offering user feedback, correct response is "Luser, if you care about that functionality all you need to do is write the function yourself and recompile from a clean Kyberzootes suite making sure to set the Warboggle controtes with a string of etherial fruit decompositors. Of course this only works on a virtual machine sandboxed in a software environment that you don't have access to, but how is that our problem? Learn to code!"