BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏Apr 20, 2017

Dear fellow #Mastodon users. Please be patient with the people creating Mastodon and GNU Social.

Writing software takes time, and the teams working on these applications are very small.

Most of them are also wearing many hats. Some are students, others have full time non-Mastodon jobs. Some admin instances in addtion to writing code.

The Twitter kitchen probably has more people working in it than the entire #Fediverse. Please adjust your expectations accordingly! 😄

Show threadShawnApr 20, 2017
@HerraBRE it's open-source! Got an improvement or gripe? Feel free to chip in! 😅
Show threadBjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏Apr 20, 2017

@Shawn Agreed, but we do need to be careful with that attitude.

We don't want to ignore people's legitimate requests / bug-reports / desires just because they can't code.

Valuable insights can come from everywhere, and considering the diversity issues in geekdom we need to be careful to keep an ear open.

Show threadShawn
@HerraBRE encouraging people to chip in is the message to convey. Don't ignore the emoji's
Apr 20, 2017 at 4:44pmWeb
Show threadBjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏Apr 20, 2017
@Shawn I'm not, but some people do feel excluded by that so I just wanted to mention it. We're on the same page I think. 👍