It's rough, there are two main developers working on Jerboa, one other person reviewing code, 5 or 6 other people helping squash bugs on the regular. And a few dozen people that even bother to submit PRs every now and then.

The hundreds to thousands of people using the app that aren't helping to develop it: y'all are the bug testers. It's good to bring up issues like this one, but it's the coders that have to go in and fix the issues, hope that they don't break others in the process (a missing question mark broke all thumbnail displayings at one point mid-development). Lots of issues coming in and not enough hands to both fix them and check that it's still all working fine. Even the unit tests are coded in by people.

In the next couple days I will try to release something that works well enough for my standards on my fork. But it takes some patience and a little less whining, there's a reason why we're in alpha.

A developer of an open source application being attacked my an entitled user. A story as old as time, yet very sad to see over and over again.

Dear user, you are getting something for free. Open source even. If you don't like how it works, fork it and develop your own, or do your part in helping out debug and investigate. Or just stop using it.

This is not a big corporation with dozens or hundreds of devs working on an app that you pay for with ads or premium subscriptions. This is a free app, developed by volunteers. Please be nice. You can complain, but be civil about it.

Without a link to the PR you refer to this is a bit of a vague ticket. Did it work in a previous version? And if so, which version?

Also I think your tone is not constructive and you have to keep in mind that this is all open source software being quickly developed to deal with the huge influx of new users. It's good to create github issues for these things, I also agree that it's a silly bug if true but remember the human on the other side, they owe us nothing :-)

You should look at the code in Lemmy lol. I get that people think open source means more eyes, but it doesn't mean higher quality.

It clearly says alpha version, which means it will be full of bugs and unstable. Alpha has a specific meaning in software development.

I understand that people who are not devs don't know that though.. :)

From what I understand, it's a bit of a mad run right now to try and both add features and fix bugs, and there are not many devs. It's only a matter of time before something stops working or produces weird results. Just be OK with it. It's alpha.

And seems it's kind of a false accusation because the bug wasn't even introduced by an PR. (If you follow the recent discussion on github.)

Does this happen in the latest version, v0.0.36-alpha? I'd also like to point out the full version name includes the phrase "alpha". This is not a fully released product and will contain bugs.

You make it sound like there was a pull request that deliberately changed the functionality of the voting system when it's most likely just a bug. The main developer of the app also has to maintain the back-end code for all of Lemmy itself as well as the web interface. There's no need to be so accusatory on an alpha release of an app, a bit of respect goes a long way.

It clearly says alpha version, which means it will be full of bugs and unstable. Alpha has a specific meaning in software development.

I understand that people who are not devs don't know that though.. :)

From what I understand, it's a bit of a mad run right now to try and both add features and fix bugs, and there are not many devs. It's only a matter of time before something stops working or produces weird results. Just be on with it. It's alpha.