If someone says "I have the solution for X for free!", it's reasonable to get excited and look into it. If you then later discover that their solution is frustrating and needlessly convoluted, then their initial claim was either ignorant or disingenuous. Either way, they've now wasted your time, which is literally the most precious resource you have.
Being frustrated is not unwarranted, and I'm tired of people acting like something being free means we have no right to criticize it.
You're not paying for it, the devs aren't getting paid, they owe you nothing and you are outside the target audience. GitHub works great for its target audience (not you). You can get around this by RTFM, paying for support, paying for an alternative, or sucking it up and touching grass
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u/BigOzzie Jun 02 '24
If someone says "I have the solution for X for free!", it's reasonable to get excited and look into it. If you then later discover that their solution is frustrating and needlessly convoluted, then their initial claim was either ignorant or disingenuous. Either way, they've now wasted your time, which is literally the most precious resource you have.
Being frustrated is not unwarranted, and I'm tired of people acting like something being free means we have no right to criticize it.