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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] JaxiiRuff@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Do it anyway and ignore the backlash. If no one reports it then it will never be addressed. Its the drawing of attention to the matter that counts in my opinion.

The only complaint I have is that most communities or devs prefer you to open issues on places such as github instead but I feel it doesnt really matter since not everyone is willing to take the extra steps.

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (10 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.

[–] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Protonmail accounts are free. Just make one and use it for bug report signups.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

And if you have a paid Proton account, you get SimpleLogin included, so you can use a unique email address for every service. I love that - I now generally have a unique username, password, and email address for every service.

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