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Re:Atom 1.12 released by tomtheelder on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:15AM (#12921647)
Complaining about the lack of a feature in a FOSS project that you haven't contributed to is kind of a dick move, though, and it's extremely discouraging to developers. If they violate community standards or put users at risk (breaking semver, insecure elements, malware, etc.) then you have the right to complain, but otherwise you really ought to remain civil and positive.

Politely requesting features is fine, but complaining about a lack of features in software that you don't contribute to with effort or money is extremely rude and pretty much a slap to the face for the developers who work on the project.

Re:Atom 1.12 released by JetSetWilly on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:27AM (#12921784)
Atom is developed by paid professionals at github, it isn't really a community led project like emacs.

Not that that matters, because nothing is immune from criticism, free or otherwise. It is a useful service to provide criticism, in fact, it can be useful to the developers and also useful to potential users - although it doesn't have to be.

Re:Atom 1.12 released by FooBarWidget on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:05PM (#12922100)
There is a difference between providing useful, constructive criticism and rude complaining.
Re:Atom 1.12 released by JetSetWilly on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:45PM (#12922509)
Pointing out that the technology platform chosen makes features simple elsewhere into multi-year odysseys seems fine to me. I think maybe atom users are too close to it, so have heard such things before and react very negatively to it. For me it was interesting to learn it took significant work to provide this support.
Re:Atom 1.12 released by Klathmon on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:02PM (#12922076)
yes but "look at how long it took them to add X feature!" isn't useful critisim, it's a put-down.

The product isn't going to improve because the developers felt worse about finally getting a requested feature in.

Re:Atom 1.12 released by erikbye on Thursday November 10, 2016 @12:57PM (#12922610)
A lot of FOSS work is done by "paid professionals", that does not change the fact that you get the software for free.