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I recently deleted my Discord account. This is an immediate nope for me.
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Especially in the homebrew/modding world some even only distribute their stuff over discord. Which is an extra level of stupid. Dont think anything else can beat this.
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"Ads, In-App Purchases"
That game is gonna be full-on enshitification.
I'll see that and raise you a "app is free, but all functionality is paid, which you only find out after you have used the app for its intended purpose and now want the results of the work that you did, specifically when attempting to rescue files from your phone, for instance."
I'll also toss in "all functionality is paid on a subscription model that automatically renews unless you manually disable it and you have to buy at least in one year increments"
I really like the 'free trial' that requires your CC information and will begin billing you 'soon' unless you remember to cancel (and probably burn the card too).
Yeah, in app purchases.
Goddamn! Had this one with "smartdraw.com" lately. I had to draw up a map of our property for a buidling permit, so I looked for an appropriate tool. Spend 3 hours drawing a layout. but turned out I can't export the drawing unless I buy a year subscription of 8 dollars per month. Fuck them and fuck subscriptions! I downloaded LibreCAD and learned the basics of that.
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Evidence of vibe-coding. Em dashes and emojis sprinkled throughout the documentation? Code with inline comments pointlessly describing some change, as if you want to know what that block of code used to do more than what it actually does?
It's vibe-coded garbage by someone who doesn't know how to code. Stay far away.
inline comments pointlessly describing some change, as if you want to know what that block of code used to do more than what it actually does?
Oh, shit, am AI.
Same, but only after my boss decides to change the functionality for the third time in half a year.
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Requires cloud connectivity.
The size of the download button
curl | shinstallation method- vomit-colored website, vomit-colored developer avatars, or more obvious: AGENTS.MD in the repo
- opensource, but compiling yourself is "unsupported"/"not recommended"
- opensource, but official website aggressively advertising their SAAS which makes it look like the software is actually paid product
It's annoying that the Proxmox helper scripts are all curl | sh based.
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It's not already in my distro's package manager
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A github project with 1000 open issues and no commits for 3 years.
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Venture capital funding. The plan is always to do a rug pull. Though if it properly freely licensed and the code is reasonable enough to be forked, it's less worrying but still risky. It's better to work with honest people.
"To use program xyz, sign up!
- New post about a promising selfhosted app
- looks inside
- em dashes, emojis, release in last 24h with 35 commits since.
I fucking swear, if only vibe coders would ACTUALLY write up their own posts about THEIR OWN SOFTWARE, many would not act harsh towards them as much as it happens.
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If the project maintainer has a policy of "no politics allowed."
Rather than a policy more along the lines of "be respectful"
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The repo does not actually contain the source code, instead a link to download from a different site.
“A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository.”
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GitHub repo that has "pm me on telegram" instead of code
join our discord
A rule of thumb I use is how desperate the software is to tell you the weather even when you never asked for it or even set it up to report it.
Something I ran into just now was AI generated Imagery in Docs or as an Icon.
I am not even that Anti AI as many on here I feel like. But this is a sure fire way to show how much you don't give a shit about your project. Just use emojis or some shit which is ironically even less work but somehow makes it seem more deliberate.
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Whenever they start with "I built XXX". People who write their own code say "I wrote".
Eh, disagree on that one. Even if I write every bit of the code myself, producing good working software involves a lot more than just writing code. Just makes "building" feel like a better descriptor.
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"Update/Accept or Remind me later"
Signing-in before being able to use a FREE software.
-glares at Canva after buying Affinity -
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Having no user manual. A user manual is essential. A blurb about what it is and how to build it doesn't count. And please, integrate it with the software, OS, or at least distribute a readme alongside. So much offline software assumes you have a 100% stable internet connection for online help. Also, please don't throw up a wiki and rely on your users to do it.
This might be asking too much, but it wouldn't hurt to pay attention to principles of good technical writing as well. A well-written user manual brings your users a great deal of joy.
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"This project has been archived on [10+ years ago]. It is now Read Only."
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Last commit 5+ years ago
The build is failing on main. Or they don't have a build process at all.
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The install process requires one of:
- Running a command with npm
- Manually compiling binaries from source
- Manually installing dependencies
These aren't bad per-se, but my experience has led me to associate these with spending a bunch of time trying to resolve errors and having to give up in the end and not install the software after all, so if there's any alternatives that I could use I am trying those first.
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Cant remember what they are off the top of my head, but there's been a couple of times I wanted to download a FOSS program, but it was only available to install through the Microsoft store.
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Requires weird IDE to build
I shifted 8 GB of files to an older machine just to be able to install Android Studio on barely-supported hardware, and now I'm cloning the repo and the .gradle directory alone is 1 GB?
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"Ask me later" instead of "no"
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