Mr. Satan

I think there is some pride and value in setting things up in a way that reduces friction.

I myself am of a similar opinion tho. Someone maintaining a thing as a hobby doesn’t owe me shit. If it’s too tedious to figure out, I’ll move to another solution. It’s really nice, when I get the option of a consumable bundle. But if they can’t, don’t like or simply don’t care for ease of consumption — tough luck for me I guess.

tl;dr

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

A user is not owed “ease of use” for every random thing on GitHub. It’s appreciated, but unless something is given in return for the software, it’s on the user to figure their shit out.

I’m not against helping users. If they’re civil, they should be addressed. But anyone coming with anger and entitlement, like the original meme, should absolutely be shown the door.

At the end of the day, GitHub is a developer platform. And release distribution is a feature to make the developer experience better. Take it or leave it.

Why? Genuinely interested.

Oh. my. god. That just triggered me and I’m a dev. WHY THE FUCK ARE RELEASES AT THE BOTTOM ON MOBILE??!

Like on the desktop it’s right there in the right panel. Then I open the mobile interface for some APK and for the life of me I can’t fucking find it. So I enable desktop mode and there it is. Jesus fucking Christ I hate it. It took me months to find it.

When we’re talking about free software someone makes in their free time, I don’t think the normie is entitled to anything. I made a thing and gave it away to the world, figure it out.

That being said less friction is better, so I really appreciate when the dev gives simple to consume packages.

This dynamic changes when money starts getting exchanged, either explicitly by buying or implicitly by donating, the sponsor is entitled to have their needs acknowledged and addressed.

For the average user — yes; for me — I don’t care.

Most of my work is in the terminal either way so I tend to care way more about a searchable documentation, reference, manual. Other than that I really like the textual toolbar with dropdowns plus some context menus.
I want my interface to be dense with accessible information.

There’s room for flare tho, I still need feedback on my actions: hovers, drags, clicks, etc.