Post #2327099

2026-03-27 21:56 UTC

@deathkitten@firetribe.org @CliftonR@wandering.shop And then there's the RTFM crowd. I had it beaten into me as a yount UNIX user that if you had to ask for help, you had somehow failed. That works as long as there's an FM to R. Documentation seems to be largely regarded as an unaffordable luxury these days, which I most blame on the constant-update cycle & the move-fast-&-break-things mentality. & tbf, documentation soaks up a lot of time; even more if you have to update.

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@deathkitten@firetribe.org 2026-03-27 22:03

@cavyherd@wandering.shop I think the RTFM crowd largely overlap with the "fuck around to figure how things work" crowd subset that doesn't realize there are people who use computers who don't function that way. As for documentation, the move-fast-&-break-things mentality is absolutely a factor—it's hard to keep up with documentation on a moving target after all—but the other part of that is that documentation is a very different skill set than programming, and a lot of projects do not treat the people with the documentation skill set as valuable. Even in projects that have funding, documentation still tends to be unpaid work, volunteer work even. It's hard to keep people for that task if they're not supported or listened to. @CliftonR@wandering.shop

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