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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by sergiotapia on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:35PM (#23209019)
I have a pretty simple project with 2.4k stars, and have met nothing but good people eager to help, and bending over backwards to help me help them. My project's "niche" may have something to do with it.
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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by marcandre on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:47PM (#23209082)
Application domain may have something to do with it, language also. As a maintainer of Javascript and Ruby libraries, the difference in entitlement and cluelessness is remarkable.
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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by tonyedgecombe on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:41AM (#23210399)
The Ruby community has always struck me as friendly and welcoming.
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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by klenwell on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:49PM (#23209095)
This is encouraging to hear. My company built a tool to improve website accessibility. It fills a niche. We're almost ready to open source it. Basically just need to make the Github repo public.

The one thing that gives me pause is the prospect of having to manage a bunch of unfriendly feature requests and bug reports. Here's hoping we find ourselves in a virtuous niche.

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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by hazz99 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @10:47PM (#23209081)
What is it / what niche?
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Re:It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (... by sergiotapia on Sunday May 17, 2020 @12:24AM (#23209561)
https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo - niche is: "self-hosted apps"
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