I'm downvoting them as I see them. Donate or contribute or offer constructive feedback, don't just complain.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with complaining about a piece of software.

I think it's reasonable to criticize a piece of open source software, especially one backed by a non-profit, but not to be entitled or mean-spirited about it.

This. The original comment mentioned "tone and level of entitlement", not "constructive criticism"

As the maintainer of CoreJS (Denis Pushkarev) said:

Maintainers are the unsung heroes of the software world, pouring their hearts into creating vast amounts of value that often goes unappreciated. These unsung heroes perform critical work that enables all of modern technology to function – this is not an exaggeration. These tireless individuals dedicate themselves to writing new features, fixing bugs, answering user inquiries, improving documentation, and developing innovative new software, yet they receive almost no recognition for their efforts.

Is that the guy who tried to bully me into donating because one of my transitive dependencies used his npm spam?

If you feel bullied by a long message, that sounds like a psychological problem on your end.

They spent 1000 credits on an iDevice with basic, inflexible, proprietary software that "looks good" and expect flexible, powerful, portable, free and open source software to look the same too.

I love thunderbird but I don't understand their update schedules.

I just now got an update (thought it would be to 115) but it's to 102 [1].

In the release notes of 102 it says it was made public only 5 days ago (and they say 115 is coming soon). And seemingly it can't update to 115? Am I missing something here?

[1] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.13.0/relea...

[edit] okay it seems 115 is not yet released as https://www.thunderbird.net/ still links to 102. But the Beta links to 116 (https://www.thunderbird.net/de/download/beta/) so I guess they are still moving things around

IIRC, Thunderbird development works on the ESR (extended-support release) branches of Firefox. The Thunderbird version numbers track the Firefox ESR versions.

edit: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Home#Releases

102.13.0 was released a few days ago.

102.x has been out for a while.

When you receive an update to it depends on your distro or whether you have it installed as a Snap or Flatpak, etc.

That threw me for a loop. I went to download 115 and got 102.

I've mostly stuck with webmail (Fastmail for personal, Gmail for work) but would love to get back to a local client. So I'm willing to give the new Thunderbird a shot, but it's perplexing when they advertise 115 and give me 102 and it's really unclear how to get the nifty stuff they're advertising.

Gmail supports IMAP. Even in a corporate environment I used Mail as my client.

Yes, I'm aware. But I don't have any interest in mingling my work + personal / project email.

Is it JUST WORDS if someone insults you or your work? Or does it still hurt?

At the very least we can be constructive and civil.

I agree in the abstract. But as I have seen lately, devs (or dev advocates) are pretty snowflakey.

Probably because I think the "average" open source dev has more or less "lost the plot?" A whole lot of trying to beat Steve Jobs at his own game and far less "lets make solid software that works well for people all the time."

There is far too much competition and non monetary incentives in FOSS to not have opinions and entitlement.

FOSS is only good because of competition and entitlement.