Have you ever been scared or hesitant about reporting flaws or bugs to a community with a strong staunch fanbase ??

Obviously there are different ways of reporting and starting discussions, but I brought up the courage to report a flaw on a subreddit (not to be named) that I knew is very sensitive to criticisme, and I was flooded with downvotes and even was subject to gaslighting, so I gave up on that software and became even more hesitant about reporting problems on other FOSS communities .

Is this mindset very prevalent among all open source communities? have you faced something similar ?

  • mtchristo@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    I get it, but my complaint wasn’t as much about project developpers as it is about the project fanbase.

    I totally respect all the efforts involved into making open source software, my gripe was with how to communities do resist change or criticisme sometimes.