Gregory's Server@Wuzzy
I'd love to contribute, but OSM doesn't make it even half as easy as Google, and far fewer people frankly benefit when I do contribute. I'm just not gonna spend a bunch of cycles for spurious benefit.
Not to pry back open the "open source is ugly" can of worms, but...open source has grossly underinvested in UX and unfortunately UX matters, especially if you're the underdog
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@camille @Wuzzy @len ui designer here... after some frustrating volunteering, i got the ugly truth... analytics is a subset of mass surveillance, something closed source is happy to do, but open source is not, out of respect. issue is: analytics are a cornerstone of usability (what's the real blocker? is deployed feature successful?), and without reliable data (that closed source collects lots but open source refrains from), it can't really do its job. it will *always* fall behind. |
@camille @Wuzzy @nonlinear @len
if there was something similar to Streetcomplete on full size computers (a mobile screen is small and sometimes hard to see at my age) and it allowed you to easily add info to places a few km from my work or home (to preserve my privacy) I would contribute to OSM a lot more...