Comment on You dont have to answer silly questions

Sunshine@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve seen more than a few crashouts in emulation and gaming related open source devs, and the best advice I have is:

  • Make an actual fucking wiki, or have someone make it for you. Having everyone funneled into discord where you inevitably end up answerimg the same basic ass questions over and over because search is impossible is soul crushing.

  • If handling the “social” side of it, as in responding to issues, pull requests, or running a discord server for it is startijng to get to you, fucking ignore them/close them.

  • Try to keep your identity as an open source dev separate from your other identities unless you want to deal with drama related to your software every fucking moment online. Find a way to get some space.

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Discord is really a terrible place to discuss issues and how-to’s. Whatever happened to just having a forum? Topics and threads keep things organized better

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t you know? Discord has a god awful, half implemented, and still practically unsearchable thread system now! You don’t ever have to leave! You wouldn’t want to leave. You’re not allowed to leave.

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    • AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Discord us great for a starting project with a few folks where rapid replies and collaborative work are key, and you only have a few users.

      Once you have grown past that phase, get a fucking forum.

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    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      These days, the majority of users refuse to use anything except discord, unless they’re willing to leap further into the abyss and ask an LLM. Forums end up dead, with very few users asking anything, and no one except devs coming back regularly to answer questions, so they still end up with devs dealing with every question themselves.

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  • justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I briefly considered starting an open source game project but seeing this kind of stuff keeps me away Lol.

    Also my code sucks - Which doesn’t stop me from making games but still.

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