The_Lemmington_PostMar 2, 2024

Frustration with Lemmy Devs' Lack of User Feedback Consideration

https://discuss.online/post/5768213

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5768097 [https://discuss.online/post/5768097] Greetings c/lemmy_support community, I wanted to express my frustration with the Lemmy developers for consistently closing my reported issues as “not planned” without involving the community in the decision-making process. It appears that the devs prioritize their own interests, such as developing Android thumb keyboard apps, over listening to user feedback and addressing community priorities. Given this approach, I have decided that I will not be contributing to this project in any capacity. It is disheartening to see a lack of consideration for user input and a focus on personal projects rather than community needs. For reference, you can view the list of my reported issues on GitHub for Lemmy here: - Lemmy Backend Issues: Link [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+author%3A8ullyMaguire+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc] - Lemmy UI Issues: Link [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues?q=is%3Aissue+author%3A8ullyMaguire+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc] Thank you for your attention, but I regret to say that I will not be engaging further with this project due to the lack of user-centric development practices.

Show threadwiki_meMar 3, 2024

The project is missing developers, if you want to then implement them yourself , or fund raise the money using a bounty platform like polar, some of the ideas are fairly controversial and linus law of trail and error apply here, with that said i think lemmy could benefit from a add on system like those wordpress and discourse have and those ideas can be checked out.

Personally i had them accept some of my feedback before (e.g. i am the one who requested the ability to block an instance which got implemented despite one of the developers were against it and the other suggested i should switch instances).

Just try to be prudent and persuasive .

A quote by Linus Torvalds

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a ...

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I don’t really care whether or not the issues I suggested are implemented, but it frustrates me when they close the issues without listening to the input from the community.
Mar 3, 2024 at 12:05pmWeb
Show thread420stalin69 [he/him]Mar 3, 2024

Isn’t assessing the issue on the issue tracker “listening to input” though?

Your options are

  • do it yourself and create a pull request
  • make a suggestion to the devs, who have every right to reject it
  • start a discussion here

That seems like a lot of options for listening to input to me.

What exactly is missing that you want to see? How could you add what you see is missing?