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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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Signing-in before being able to use a FREE software.
-glares at Canva after buying Affinity -
"Call us for pricing"
Aaaaaand tab closed.
I can’t believe that marketing people are this fucking stupid.
Like, full-on knuckle-dragging morons.
They intentionally drive away more paying customers than they could ever “channelize” with this method.
Because most people realize that prices are only ever hidden for malicious, anti-consumer purposes.
Thats for every industry. The burger van with the prices in micro-text behind the guy asking what you want and you better hurry up cause theres a queue
Your example can be wholly explained by inadequate knowledge of visual design (UI/UX, to be specific), especially from a consumption/access position. That’s a technical outcome which is a result of ignorance or failures, not a sales outcome from an explicit strategy of obfuscation.
To put it another way, people making too-small signs for their yard sale that drivers just cannot see at speed, is not the same as companies going “call for pricing”. That would be the same as signs saying, “call us for the yard sale address”. The former is wholly unintentional and borne out of ignorance, the latter is completely intentional anything but accidental.
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.
Support only through a Discord server
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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If the project maintainer has a policy of "no politics allowed."
Rather than a policy more along the lines of "be respectful"
100%.
Then you look through their history and it's them laugh emojiing something like doing a LGBT suicide or some ridiculous shit.
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.
"Ads, In-App Purchases"
That game is gonna be full-on enshitification.
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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
Back in the Python 2.7 days, curl | grep sh was the standard practice for installing the package manager, pip. Even better, the shell script actually had a binary blob somewhere in the middle. It was shell script up top, binary blob in the middle, and back to shell script at the bottom. Until Python 3.5ish, pip wasn't bundled with Python, so this was standard practice.
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GitHub repo that has "pm me on telegram" instead of code
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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.
Had a conversation with someone recently about exactly this. Usage of AI generated assets gives me exactly the same feelings as a local business using a gmail or personal ISP email account on their advertising.
It doesn't automatically mean it's bad, but it's an indication that whoever is running things just can't be bothered to put in effort.
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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.
My distro has one of the highest amount of software packaged, yet i regularly find software i like that isn't. There will always be software that isn't packaged yet useful, i reckon.
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- 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.
What's wrong with em dashes? I use it wherever English syntax requires it.
The repo does not actually contain the source code, instead a link to download from a different site.
Requires cloud connectivity.
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.
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