Do I really need to remind this is free software made by benevolent developers?
I get it it’s infuriating but it’s still in some way a gift you were given and seem unhappy with.
If you give me a 1000 piece puzzle for free, but without the instructions or a box picture to go off of, you’ve done a nice thing by gifting me something but have also failed miserably as I’ll never fuckin solve that puzzle
There is a lot of entitlement around free software. People expecting free things, often written in someone’s spare time, to be really polished just don’t understand I guess. On top of that, good documentation is hard to write and sometimes it’s a completely different skill than writing the software itself.
If I put a bow on a turd and gift it to you, it’s illegal to be mad about it. You have to smile and thank me. No, you can’t ask for less corn next time.
This software is not a “bow on a turd”. OP selected this tool provided for free online and wasn’t happy with what it was.
The devs that built the tool in question Do not owe you anything.
They don’t owe you documentation, they don’t owe you bugfixes either. You are not entitled with anything. Use it if you want, or don’t and stop shitting on the people building them, that’s fine. Just understand that as long as this is made for free for everyone not you specifically you don’t get to be rude to the people making it.
Also and that’s obvious, why don’t you get involved in that project and actually fixe the documentation in question?
Oh you don’t want or you are not able to do so? Oh my what a shame, I suppose someone got to be assisting you and do it in your stead?
Just buy some proprietary software that does your tool and then you will get to bitch all day about the product you own (or think you own).
So they don’t owe you anything, but they owe you a documentation if they code and publish.
Does that make sense ? I don’t think anybody doing any form of benevolent work should ever be called lazy while doing it. Just basic respect for the free work they already accomplished.
Anyone who builds anything and doesn’t document their work is being lazy. Paid or not, a good project has documentation, and not just for the end user, but the OG creator and anyone else who works on it in the future. Very few people in the world have a memory good enough to recall every detail of something they build a long time ago.
It’s not about benevolence, free vs paid, or scope of audience (personal projects), humans have maliable memory and writing down documentation is nessecary component to making anything last.
Do I really need to remind this is free software made by benevolent developers? I get it it’s infuriating but it’s still in some way a gift you were given and seem unhappy with.
If you give me a 1000 piece puzzle for free, but without the instructions or a box picture to go off of, you’ve done a nice thing by gifting me something but have also failed miserably as I’ll never fuckin solve that puzzle
I’m not gonna say “most” but plenty of people prefer to do puzzles without looking at the box picture. It’s part of the challenge.
Alternatively “lol you can’t figure out how to solve a puzzle without looking at the solution? lol dumbass”
It’s a terrible analogy anyway because software is not analogous to a puzzle.
Terrible analogy honestly. Feel free to not use this software, nobody will ever force you to use it.
This is not software to entertain you. It’s a tool that you don’t understand how to use and choose to blame the people building it for free.
Ftfy
Just because it’s provided free doesn’t mean you’re off the hook for not telling people how it works, dumbass
Why so hostile and the name calling…? They’re saying it’s a lot of work for oftentimes a single person to do. That’s just the truth.
You’re a fantastic idiot if that’s what you actually think. That’s not what they’re saying nor relevant to the discussion at all
Yikes. Not sure why I expected anything else.
Cuz you’re a moron
There is a lot of entitlement around free software. People expecting free things, often written in someone’s spare time, to be really polished just don’t understand I guess. On top of that, good documentation is hard to write and sometimes it’s a completely different skill than writing the software itself.
If I put a bow on a turd and gift it to you, it’s illegal to be mad about it. You have to smile and thank me. No, you can’t ask for less corn next time.
This software is not a “bow on a turd”. OP selected this tool provided for free online and wasn’t happy with what it was.
The devs that built the tool in question Do not owe you anything.
They don’t owe you documentation, they don’t owe you bugfixes either. You are not entitled with anything. Use it if you want, or don’t and stop shitting on the people building them, that’s fine. Just understand that as long as this is made for free for everyone not you specifically you don’t get to be rude to the people making it.
Also and that’s obvious, why don’t you get involved in that project and actually fixe the documentation in question? Oh you don’t want or you are not able to do so? Oh my what a shame, I suppose someone got to be assisting you and do it in your stead?
Just buy some proprietary software that does your tool and then you will get to bitch all day about the product you own (or think you own).
While that may be true, I will still shit on any dev who can’t write proper documentation. Free isn’t an excuse for lazy.
So they don’t owe you anything, but they owe you a documentation if they code and publish.
Does that make sense ? I don’t think anybody doing any form of benevolent work should ever be called lazy while doing it. Just basic respect for the free work they already accomplished.
Anyone who builds anything and doesn’t document their work is being lazy. Paid or not, a good project has documentation, and not just for the end user, but the OG creator and anyone else who works on it in the future. Very few people in the world have a memory good enough to recall every detail of something they build a long time ago.
It’s not about benevolence, free vs paid, or scope of audience (personal projects), humans have maliable memory and writing down documentation is nessecary component to making anything last.