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besides the money running out and maybe just loosing interest. i think the biggest problem in todays world is complexity, technical debt. especially with the hype around ai and vibe coding, it will get worse

a dev should keep it simple, reduce dependencies and users should choose products/apps that are minimal, that do one thing and do it well. this is a unix philosophy, which holds true today

just my 2 sats, i know it is probably not a popular opinion

What about apps that do not answer / pay attention anymore to what users are asking or not even answer support inquiries?
Why devs lose that interest ?

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To say it with the words of ffmpeg maintainers:

"talk is cheap, send patches"

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i deleted my github account — waiting until people move to alternatives

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memes are life and life is a meme

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Why do people zap you when you refuse to enable LN wallets here on SNs???

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the horse shows people who can receive right? might take that into account in my future zapping. thank you for bringing this up. didn't realize

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Nothing wrong with zapping somebody that do not have attached any external wallet.
Read here: #1349291
Solomonsatoshi is just an idiot that doesn't understand the mechanics of SN.

Yes horse can receive and gun can send.
@DarthCoin refuses to enable either.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @nathanael 9 Jan

hey, where is your optimism?

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I didn't like the slash in @optimism/s lol

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @jivan 19h

Do it LKML style, just email them the patch files.

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i sometimes do, but people think email is dead and don't provide one...

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the only thing you can do is move on. maybe keep a mental note about the company/developer behind it and if they launch something else in the future keep that in mind

multiple reasons for moving on. could be (as you correctly said in your op) that no money flows and if the dev doesn't use it personally anymore, he has no incentive to develop it further or fix bugs. maybe just part of life, something that interested me years ago, might not be that interesting to me anymore today

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171 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 9 Jan

I largely agree with you on the first point. The second, I disagree with that if it's built for end-users. I think feature-rich apps are okay, as long as the quantity of features doesn't reduce the quality of the whole (and there is of course a limit to what you can implement.)

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i kinda agree with you. maybe it is more about the mission in the context of a company. does this feature support our mission or not? i personally still prefer simple apps that do one thing well, that doesn't mean they don't have useful features, as long as it supports doing that one thing well. hope that makes it clearer what i meant

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