Post #1176203
2025-08-26 18:25 UTC
Replies (21)
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@mikix@capivarinha.club 2025-08-26 18:54
@alecaddd@mastodon.social The Restic project’s GitHub issue template has a final question that’s basically “did Restic make you happy today?” And they link to the below post for the inspiration. It’s a good idea, I might use it for my own projects too. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/two_holiday_stories/
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@UP8@mastodon.social 2025-08-26 19:55
@alecaddd I feel that way about adding ALT text. A lot of Mastodonsters complain when images don't have ALT text. I put a lot of effort into adding ALT text for all my photos but I haven't gotten one bit of praise or positive feedback #disability
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@0x10f@tech.lgbt 2025-08-26 20:23
@alecaddd I tried to compliment the staff of a useful website once via their feedback form but it told me my comment was flagged as spam 🙃
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@da_kink@defcon.social 2025-08-26 20:53
@alecaddd I will say naming doesn't help. GitHub Issues to me doesn't scream "leave positive message here" and neither does a support page as they are headed towards troubleshooting and help. But people leave reviews for things they like, maybe that is an avenue to pursue? GitHub stars comes close.
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@Klaus@twit.social 2025-08-26 20:54
@alecaddd it's even worse for admins: if things are running just fine, why should they get a "good job" message or even a promotion? But if things are not running fine, then they are the ones to blame ..
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@rolandlo@fosstodon.org 2025-08-27 00:41
@alecaddd In my experience (with Xournal++) there is a lot more positive feedback than that. Yes, the feedback usually accompanies a bug report or feature request, but it's definitely quite frequent and by far outnumbers demoralizing rants or overly harsh criticism.
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@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social 2025-08-27 00:51
@alecaddd Would help if we stopped writing crap software too.
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@alfinpogform@mastodon.social 2025-08-27 02:23
@alecaddd based on how people respond to reviews of their work, i expect developers wouldn't care about the positive feedback at all. I understand and sympathize greatly with the difficulty of the experience you describe, don't get me wrong. the problem of lacking positive feedback is extremely personal for me, depression is depressing to talk about so I will leave it at that.
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@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org 2025-08-27 07:26
@alecaddd I'd say the best compliment I can recieve is "here is a problem, and here is a what I think to be the fix, the software is great btw"
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@lucp@toot.re 2025-08-27 07:43
@alecaddd I feel like it's the exact same with other sectors too though. I bet, if restaurants started prompting and asking if everything is good, they wouldn't get many compliments either.
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@eldelacajita@social.coop 2025-08-27 07:47
@alecaddd In my experience, developers don't make it easy either. There are clear channels for bug reporting, but positive feedback seems out of place in a bug tracker (like, filing a praise report?). You have to look for an email or a chat, and sometimes those aren't as visible. You can leave a comment in Flathub, but there's nothing to show that the developer has read it. So please, devs: you want to hear positive feedback? Enable channels for that, like you do for bugs or donations.
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@halla@kde.social 2025-08-27 09:05
@alecaddd Yeah... Which is why I make sure to share with everyone who works on Krita every compliment we get 🙂
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@couscous@mamot.fr 2025-08-27 09:51
@alecaddd "we need you to report any issue in order to keep your pleasure using our project, AND we need you to keep our pleasure developing this project by reporting your pleasure using it" something like that 😁 on every project
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@stooovie@mas.to 2025-08-27 10:21
@alecaddd I feel like I'd just clog their inbox even more. But if you say they'd appreciate it, I'm there for it :)
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@jak2k@mastodontech.de 2025-08-27 16:07
@alecaddd The first thing I did was to write a few mails to maintainers of some open source software. (Thank you for working on Thunderbird!)
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@Piciok@dragonscave.space 2025-08-27 23:56
@alecaddd @eikaron I was actually recently thinking of something like Issues on a repository but in reverse ie. tickets for things that actually work. Firstly, the devs would know they have done a really good job on a specific part of the software, secondly, if we kept to the step-by-step description antics, we could have a nice map of examples of what feature makes the product the right fit for whom in which situation.
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@DrewNaylor@mastodon.online 2025-09-03 22:28
@alecaddd I've noticed this sometimes where there's a project that I really like but I don't want to file an issue just to say I like it because it feels like spam.
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@Ryanteck@fosstodon.org 2025-09-03 22:49
@alecaddd I get annoyed when someone then reports an error and assumes that I must already have 100s of reports about it and wonders why it hasn't been fixed a month ago. Because nobody reported it a month ago 😔
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@huggles@furry.engineer 2025-09-03 23:09
@alecaddd yess reaching out to the devs of the projects you use is great, especially if the project is small. Usually they love knowing that their passion project is making a difference to someone other then themself.
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@TheFrenchGhosty@libretooth.gr 2025-09-04 03:17
@alecaddd If you get 15M users on your "product" The money you get from said product is more than enough. You're already more privileged that 90% of people if you make money with a job like that, so no, you don't deserve a thank you. In the same way, I don't think you thank the people filling the shops you go to, or the people working for your city's basic infrastructure, because you assume payment is all that's needed.
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@FeloniousPunk@beige.party 2025-09-06 17:34
@alecaddd @LoganFive I have often said that good tech and implementation are thankless jobs.