The principles are perfectly fine. It’s the mindless following of them that’s the problem.
Your take is the same take I see with every new generation of software engineers discovering that things like principles, patterns and ideas have nuance to them. Who when they see someone applying a particular pattern without nuance think that is what the pattern means.
Development time and user support?
These are two pretty obvious reasons. It takes time and time is a limited resource. Therefore, time should be spent on solving impactful problems. Lemmy account login is extremely low impact, it’s not a bad thing, it’s just not something that improves immich for a large portion of its user base.
Another thing is user support. Since the many instances are self-hosted for the most part, and they will go offline, and they will go away forever in some instances. Users asking for support for this login type and asking for additional features to make up for this baked in instability.
Essentially. Low impact work that may drive a higher volume of support efforts.
It’s the same reason some niche projects stop supporting Linux. Low user volume and disproportionately high “neediness” of those users.
Does it support multi-tenancy?
For instance, being a backup and media manager solution for multiple people in my family hosted on one server.
The same with a few friends that want to get out from under Google’s thumb.
I mean, yeah, probably all of these things.
Yeah, and for every dozen hours spent on building a “shitty discord” that’s a dozen hours not spent building the game.
And then there’s the high friction. Now people need to sign up for your special website, sign up for your special chat, add another app to their phone if you even provide one…etc When 9/10 of those same people already have a Discord account and are already active on Discord.
You don’t appear to understand what friction means. Because using an established platform that the majority of your community already uses isn’t high friction…
It doesn’t matter what the platform is. You bring yourself to the platform your users use. It just so happens that at this point in time it is Discord and this wasn’t always the case and it won’t always be the case.
You keep talking about how you don’t want to join to find out information how you don’t want to chat about the game.
Okay. That’s fine, that’s your choice, Why are you trying to shove your choice down other people’s throat then, you don’t have to join, you don’t have to talk about the game. It’s not required.
Yep, it’s a practical choice that improves the quality of their work and their community engagement by promoting rapid feedback cycles.
BTW how’d you stumble upon the Indi game?
The thing that I suck at the most is advertised out what I’m making, and it’s hurt me, a lot…
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It is literally the worst forum platform in existence. For q&A and support, it’s effectively a black hole for information and not only that, it’s a black hole for effort since people will just ask the same bloody questions day in and day out as the information already on Discord becomes unavailable over time
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However, It becomes difficult when you use Discord as a place for your community to chat and to talk with and get feedback from highly engaged players or community members who have things to say about your game and want to talk with each other about the game. You could say that any old form will do here. However, you go to where your community is, you don’t make your community come to you. That only works if you are a bombshell of a title, otherwise, your bounce rate for community members joining and talking and engaging is going to be incredibly high which reduces the chances of your game becoming successful.
You’re talking about a place for suggestions and help which can be driven to something like discourse. Which is a platform specifically made for q&A. But it is not well suited for the type of interaction you would expect in a Discord server. It’s not providing the controls and integration that Discord provides, nor is it providing voice chat capabilities and cross interaction.
Discord as much as we all hate it. For the enshitification. is a well-established high population low friction platform for community engagement.
And one of the number one rules when it comes to community engagement is that you go to where your community has the least amount of friction. They don’t come to you.
If that was a community that preferentially used IRC then the developer should preferentially use IRC. Unfortunately, target gaming audiences preferentially use Discord and are already familiar with the platform. Anything else is adding friction that reduces community growth.
These are the facts of the matter. I’m not saying these in support of Discord. It’s kind of a shitty situation
Eh, it’s entirely logical.
Let me explain:
This makes perfect sense. I don’t see why you should be outraged about something of this sort.
That said:
If you don’t want to join the Discord, you don’t have to.
But I wasn’t facility. I was a student.
The dorm itself did not have internet and had no plans of running ethernet or providing internet to students.
I got internet through a wireless access point, positioned very carefully in window for a WISP. And they distributed that to rooms near me.
It’s old magic too and in a pinch it works reasonably well.
We use this as a networking option for an old dorm I was in which didn’t have ethernet and the concrete walls between rooms made Wi-Fi unusable.
Blocks of rooms were not separated on different circuits which made this possible
Bullets are lead. How exactly does one expect an EMP to have any effect on them…?
Not exactly ideal archival software…
It doesn’t store files in a human readable way and requires a separate DB and application to interpret your stored data. Without controls over how it stores that data.
There’s a big difference between desktop environment needs and headless server needs.
Anything with user interaction will require an enormous number of additional services, which consumes resources.
I expect to run simple headless software on 256-512 MB of RAM. For example.
I love that MasterCard is pushing this shit under the guise of “brand damaging” products.
Yet this whole fiasco is the most brand damage they could ask for.
Naw, This is honestly the direction that software engineering is going to go. AI becomes more capable over time.
We are eventually going to stop writing code and focus more on writing specifications. The development of languages that allow us to write and maintain better specifications is going to accelerate that in the same way, that higher level languages allowed us to accelerate writing code for the purpose of it being transformed into some form of bytecode. We are now in the early stages of needing a language that better facilitates the authoring of detailed specifications that can then be ran through code generation in more predictable and scalable manners.
I see nothing wrong with developing a new language. If it works it works. If it doesn’t it doesn’t and we all learned new shit. I’m not sure why so many people in this thread hate science.
I learned this one the hard way when trying to query GeoJson data, and trying to get specific, constrained, data about specific features within an area. Excluding features the user doesn’t have access to.
Sometimes this got up to 65k features.
And these claims are largely BS…
Especially given that they can implement notifications, and bypass this system they are concerned about
Samesies
This is crazy misattribution.
99% of code is too complicated because of inexperienced programmers making it too complicated. Not because of the principles that they mislabel and misunderstood.
Just because I forcefully and incorrectly apply a particular pattern to a problem it is not suited to solve for doesn’t mean the pattern is the problem. In this case, I, the developer, am the problem.
Everything has nuance and you should only use in your project the things that make sense for the problems you face.
Crowbaring a solution to a problem a project isn’t dealing with into that project is going to lead to pain
why this isn’t a predictable outcome baffles me. And why attribution for the problem goes to the pattern that was misapplied baffles me even further.