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Comment by gitgud

1 day ago

> People only read your code when something is wrong, which means they’re already annoyed before they get to your bit and if your bit is also annoying you’re going to either hear about it or get frozen out because if it.

If you’re talking about angry issues in FOSS, then there’s another positive way to look at this.

Not only did at least 1 person run your code somehow, they also cared enough to find the source and report it to you. Which means your code has value!!

But generally people are pretty nice when reporting issues to small projects

OSS has its own set of problems but I was talking more of commercial projects. Ones where people are being paid to care and when they don’t we have a problem.