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 @noa @blacklight i love how the responses devolved into exactly this i bounced off sourcehut hard for this reason; suckless brand elitism and gatekeeping dressed up as progress. glad it works for some people and we need more little sites doing what they think is right; but "doesn't work out of the box with email clients that 99.99% of normal people are using, but that's a good thing actually" is a hell of a hill to die on. 7 comments
Which is to say, I think there is a non trivial relationship between how niche and convoluted or “suckless/hacker/simple/streamlined” a software setup is, And how little it’s going to get used by people who actually have deadlines, pay stubs and other projects and responsibilities on the docket. It’s the difference between seeing a hand drill as a drill; and seeing a drill as a beautiful machine that needs to be pared down to its best design and reforged ad nauseum.  @wholesomedonut @maxc @noa it's a bit like the niche category of esoteric programming languages. Nobody would scold you for entertaining yourself with some small scripts in BrainFuck, LOLCODE, Shakespeare or Whitespace in your spare time. But if you start believing that those should be taken seriously as programming languages, and that all the patterns that made programming easier and more accessible over the past decades are bad, then we have a problem. @Charadon yep that's the one. Including gmail. It's certainly frustrating but also, it's the world we live in, and pretending it's not is also frustrating @maxc Ah... gmail. The frustrating thing about them, is that even if you use an e-mail client that HAS plain text, it'll still reformat it to HTML when sending. But yeah, one thing I do find weird, is how git, as far as I know, can't just use e-mail attachments. It wouldn't be *that* hard to include the diff as an attachment rather than the body of the e-mail itself. |
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Kitschy, narrow minded suckless software and hacker poser aesthetics go hand in hand.
Patch email based contributions feels like “no we need to use Git the way it was designed, because it’s an option and it exists” kinda mentality.
IME, I see a very significant gulf in “give a damn level” between devs I work with who are paid, and fossbros.
Paid devs tend to use the tool that is paid for or provided. They are usually impatient.
Fossbros adore THIS kind of stuff.