Comment by dbg31415

8 hours ago

It is not sexy enough.

It has atrocious UX. Crazy bloat from promising to support every one-off file format under the sun for the last 25 years.

Trying to get a PR commit committed is like dealing with an entire army of bureaucrats.

So I get it would be great (in theory) if people wanted to support this, but at the same time it’s too far behind —- and the team is too entrenched in bad UX decisions, ackward support mandates for obscure systems that in reality nobody ever really used.

And this is a hill I’ll die on… Permissive licenses > copyleft. If I fork your code, as long as I put your name in the credits, the code is mine to do whatever I want with. Past authors shouldn't get a say in what I build next. That's real open source.

Can relate to that. Nowadays it's much easier for me to fork a project and fix the bugs for myself rather than convincing the maintainers that my niche bug is worth a fix and the fix is worthy.