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faangguyindiatoday at 7:44 AM5 repliesview on HN

I've built many successful services by listening to entitled users so much that I used to talk with such entitled users all day.

They are just passionate and most of the times annoyed because something as simple is not being done right.


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jlg23today at 9:20 AM

If those "many successful services" are FOSS, you are a very rare breed of developers - one I have not yet encountered in almost 30 years of FOSS development.

Could you please link some of your projects? I could use some inspiration how to deal with entitled FOSS users who do not understand that they already got much more than what they paid for.

siva7today at 8:06 AM

I don't think you've done any of that - at least not for a successful open source project. The topic here is about open source volunteers and not your day job.

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sevgtoday at 7:53 AM

> They are just passionate and most of the times annoyed because something as simple is not being done right.

No, this is not adequate justification for such behavior towards volunteer FOSS maintainers.

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elliotectoday at 8:03 AM

What successful services have you built because of entitled users?

locknitpickertoday at 8:15 AM

> They are just passionate and most of the times annoyed because something as simple is not being done right.

I don't think this is the case at all. You are commenting in a discussion on how a maintainer of an unstable project which very clearly and unambiguously only targets and supports a specific version of a runtime. Still, said maintainer is being pestered by entitled users who attack the maintainer and how they chose to invest their free time contributing to the project with accusations of being "insane".

This is not "passion". This is sheer entitlement, and abuse on top.

If this was passion, you'd see users contributing their work with proposals to post releases. Even very low effort things like forking the repo and posting their custom releases would be infinitely more productive. You know, the core of FLOSS.

But no. You have someone doing their best generously contributing their time to provide something to the public, and in return they get insults and abuse.

No wonder projects get archived.