drshapeless

Personal site: https://drshapeless.com

Blog https://drshapeless.com/blog

I have been maintaining it for a few years, though not very actively.

I did not propose anything or push any ideas. I have only asked two questions, one was about the best practice of using datastar with go templ, one was expressing my doubt that whether more features will be behind paywall.

I got personal attacks, publicly or by DMs. A guy told me that they were told to defend the project.

The only nice thing I got from them was an alternative method to imitate replace-url function using only free-tier features.

Sorry for that. I am really a non-native English speaker. I did not use LLM, just bad English.

Blog post author here. I never expect my blog post to get this much attention. I was emotional when I wrote that blog because I had spent a couple weeks to rewrite a service for self use. And the service was almost completely migrated to datastar from htmx.

I was facing a situation where I either need to stuck with the beta, or paying a pro version, as I was using the replace-url function a lot.

I was emotionally feeling betrayed. I went to the datastar reddit thread to raise my doubt that whether there would be more features that I rely on in the free version would be stripped out and be put behind the paywall. I was fine to convert my service to purely free tier features, when my service is stable and usable, I was very willing to buy a pro license.

But you know what? The datastar author jumped out and stated two points. He said the release version of datastar is a full rewrite, if I am not paying, I could stay in beta or fork it. And in open source world, he owned me nothing. Very legit points.

However, the real reason behind that fuck you statement is that I was attacked by the datastar discord members multiple times. In one of the humiliating replies I got, that guy said some one in the discord server told them to show support to datastar. Instead of supporting, they just mocked me and called me a troll as if I was an obstacle to their potential success, multiple people, multiple times.

I noticed some comments in the thread said that I don't know how to use version control, or ignorant towards software license. Well, I do use version control and occasionally contribute to open source projects. I am a doctor, I may not be as skillful as you all, but I do know some basics in programming.

Does knowing Chinese helps when learning Japanese? My Chinese is already quite good, and I am looking for another Asian language to learn.