Post #2232201
2023-09-17 18:39 UTC
@Macroz@fosstodon.org i don't believe the dev is 'hostile', in fact i never said that. i do, however, believe he is someone who has experience of users requesting impossible things due to their lack of technical knowledge, and also has a strong desire to reject inelegant changes to code. both signifiers of 'wisdom', but he is misapplying these heuristics in this case, and communicating quite ineffectively with the users to the extent that it seems like it's coming across as disrespectful to most of them
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@jk@mastodon.social 2023-09-17 18:53
@Macroz@fosstodon.org i mostly just thought it was fascinating that the users, who may well have no technical knowledge about anything, are still able to demonstrate that what he's saying doesn't make sense by holding up examples of the feature existing in other software. the impression me (and other people) come away with is either he doesn't understand the feature, or VLC is architected in a uniquely strict way that makes a common feature in other software impossible, or he's misrepresenting the problem