It really sucks that culturally we're wired to only give feedback to developers or projects when things are broken.
A product with 15M users gets 100 complaints and only 1 nice "good job" message per month.
It's really demoralizing that we accepted the fact that "if you don't hear from them it means things are good".
People need positive reinforcement and to know that folks are happy about their work.
I understand it's fashionable to bitch about everything because hate brings views
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Paul Houle
in reply to Aleca • • •Klaus
in reply to Aleca • • •But if things are not running fine, then they are the ones to blame ..
Roland Lötscher
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in reply to Aleca • • •オチュー🕊🇵🇸
in reply to Aleca • • •Luc Princen
in reply to Aleca • • •Jorge Toledo
in reply to Aleca • • •In my experience, developers don't make it easy either. There are clear channels for bug reporting, but positive feedback seems out of place in a bug tracker (like, filing a praise report?). You have to look for an email or a chat, and sometimes those aren't as visible. You can leave a comment in Flathub, but there's nothing to show that the developer has read it.
So please, devs: you want to hear positive feedback? Enable channels for that, like you do for bugs or donations.
Halla Rempt
in reply to Aleca • • •Couscous
in reply to Aleca • • •AND we need you to keep our pleasure developing this project by reporting your pleasure using it"
something like that 😁 on every project
Jiří Fiala Total Landscaping
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in reply to Aleca • • •I get annoyed when someone then reports an error and assumes that I must already have 100s of reports about it and wonders why it hasn't been fixed a month ago.
Because nobody reported it a month ago 😔
Hayley 🦊
in reply to Aleca • • •yess reaching out to the devs of the projects you use is great, especially if the project is small.
Usually they love knowing that their passion project is making a difference to someone other then themself.
TheFrenchGhosty
in reply to Aleca • • •Aleca
in reply to TheFrenchGhosty • • •@TheFrenchGhosty wow...what an incredibly privileged and toxic statement.
I do thank the people I interact with. I always say hi to the shop workers and thank them when they help me.
I might be crazy in your eyes, but when I pass an intersection where a construction worker stops digging to let me cross, I thank him.
It's called being a decent human being and not assuming that "You're getting money so I can treat you like shit".
What kind of a sad world do you want to live in?
uoou
in reply to Aleca • • •@TheFrenchGhosty You're interacting with shop-workers inter-personally so of course you'll say thanks.
That is not the equivalent of what you're demanding.
The equivalent would be getting in contact with the manufacturers of all the consumer goods you purchase and thanking them for making them. Do you do that?
Aleca
in reply to uoou • • •@uoou @TheFrenchGhosty no, but when something is not working or wrong, I share my feedback with kindness and respect. That’s also a way of thanking people for their work, even when reporting issues.
People, this is a simple concept, be kind and respectful.
What’s so hard and controversial to understand?
uoou
in reply to Aleca • • •@TheFrenchGhosty That is a very different thing from what you were talking about. Of course we should always be civil.
But, particularly when everything's getting worse, people get pissed off when things get shitter. Humans have emotions. Most human interaction isn't mediated by a HR department, thankfully.
TheFrenchGhosty
in reply to Aleca • • •Your argument boils down to virtue signaling.
You're a "Director of Product Engineering" at Mozilla (I didn't know that before). Your argument would actually be worth something if you were working for free (and not for 100 000+ a year - and I'm being generous considering you're literally corporate).
I did/do software as volunteer and got thanks. Here's the reality rich guy, a thank is almost worthless to me (and most of those people you mentioned) because it doesn't pay the bills.
uoou
in reply to Aleca • • •@TheFrenchGhosty To be clear, if I encounter the dev of something I really enjoy using or anything I use where the dev is a *volunteer*, then I'll thank them.
But going out of my way to thank the devs who - as paid work - make the majority of software which gets worse and heavier constantly, no, that's insane.
FeloniousPunk
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