If I’m posting I’m probably high so don’t hate on me
Fair enough, I wasn’t intending to offend anyone.
If Matrix could compete on both a quality and inertia level I’d use it instead of Discord. I’ve spent many hours on IRC too. What matters is where the users are and I’d rather spend my time developing software, not doing admin.
Why are you so angry over an opinion different to your own?
I never said it’s never going to make it, I said I care about what works for the majority with the least amount of friction.
If you took that as a personal attack that’s on you.
The you’re free to use it, that’s the great thing about choice.
The article is wrong, you disrespect your users by forcing them to use a platform that they otherwise wouldn’t just to engage with you. Github isn’t free either, but the majority of us use it for free software too.
It could install itself and I still wouldn’t use it. Nobody I care about is on there and inertia is important too. This has been true since the dawn of real-time communications platforms and isn’t going to change either.
Any non-trivial support enquiries should be directed to log a bug report/formal support request regardless of the community platform you’re using. Discord isn’t any worse than IRC in this regard and we’ve been offering support via the latter forever.
Matrix sucks, that’s why most people won’t use it. I’m already giving my software away for free and providing free support for it, why would I want to take up even more of my free time running and maintaining a Matrix server as well?
Sure, I could use an already available Matrix server but I already have a Discord account, all my friends and contributors do as well and the entire thing is easy to set up and use, plus I’m already running the Discord client too.
On top of this, the argument about searchability is irrelevant. Projects have been giving support via IRC forever which has all the same problems. The best thing to do for any non-trivial support inquiries is to direct the user to lodge a support ticket and always has been.
Matrix just isn’t a compelling option, even if it had feature parity with Discord and was easier to use, it doesn’t have any real inertia anyway.
I finally stopped using it entirely when they started paywalling the answers. I don’t know if you had to actually pay or just sign up to view them but whatever it was went too far for me. Nothing of real value was honesty lost from my existence either.
Joplin
I sync it with onedrive basically for free between my phone, laptop and computer. It’s wysiwyg editor means it was basically a drop in replacement for EverNote for me, but open source and without the costs.
When I used to work a lot with Python the packaging solutions available were the bane of my existence. I hope they’ve gotten better by now…
It’s a nice but expensive app. I’m not going to pay what they’re asking to get the full experience, they’re just not worth it when so many other apps are available.
Joplin with any of the dozen or so sync services it supports out of the box.
Can I remote desktop a Linux PC with this, either with Wayland or X.org?
I watched a thing about copyright and trademark enforcement where the corporate organization was somehow able to gather a team of 50 police at tax payer expense and march them into a Sunday market in order to capture and shut down market stores selling fake knockoffs. You could see how wildly unpopular it was with the entire crowd around them where some shoppers even continued browsing and trying to purchase goods from the shut down stores even with cops standing right there trying to make the crowd move on.
Copyright and trademark infringement against multi-billionare companies with continuous record profits is seen as a victimless “crime” at best by the vast majority of people, even reasonably well off people too. The only repercussion if you’re “caught” should be just paying the actual construction/reproduction cost of the item which is pennies, they weren’t going to make this sale at their ridiculous retail price in the first place and their real losses are miniscule at best.
*slideshow
It’s a good game though, but needed more time in the oven.
These seem incredibly cheap, like too good to be real cheap.
You could use eBay but that’s usually the option of last resort.
Your local city probably has referb shops that sell them or if you’re keen you can pick them up directly from auction for peanuts.
Every time I’ve had a use for these either a business PC (or ex-business referb for home) has always been a better, cheaper answer.
Although it works out for these developers I hate that people can do this to avoid the full consequences of their actions.