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Do you ever get scared of being eating up by a community for reporting problems. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by mtchristo@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Have you ever been scared or hesitant about reporting flaws or bugs to a community with a strong staunch fanbase ??

Obviously there are different ways of reporting and starting discussions, but I brought up the courage to report a flaw on a subreddit (not to be named) that I knew is very sensitive to criticisme, and I was flooded with downvotes and even was subject to gaslighting, so I gave up on that software and became even more hesitant about reporting problems on other FOSS communities .

Is this mindset very prevalent among all open source communities? have you faced something similar ?

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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I try to post issues on github , but because I always have to verify my sign-up using email 2auth. It grinds my gears that reporting bugs is becoming tedious.

I tried to open an account on codeberg.org to report a small issue, the website refused to let me sign-up with a temporary email (I understand they have to fight spam), I don't like using my own email everywhere so its another disappointement on my list.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Why not just make a secondary 'real' email account that you use exclusively for signing up for things? Gets around those problems and gives you a way to retrieve recovery emails if you ever actually need to.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

the problem is not the email per se, as I have 2 or 3, but having to open up my email and retrieve the 2auth code each time I sign-in to github to post an issue. my browser is set to autodelete cookies when closed. that's my petpeev. and unfortunaly most projects are hosted on github.

but in the day it was easier to report an issue straight on the devs websites; very fast and straight forward. times changes

[–] elmicha@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

So you delete your cookies and then complain that you have to login again and again?

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