this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
185 points (89.7% liked)

Fediverse

28223 readers
364 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not everyone here is a developer.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And some developers are bad at design/css (like me).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fair, but I would argue that the basics of CSS positioning aren’t too complex.

And at this point we’re just talking about moving that NAV element to the top of the page, not the left side.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I believe this addresses your concern:

https://lemmy.ml/comment/9231303

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Dev publishes unreadable website:

"Some developers are bad at CSS and design/CSS (like me)"

Implying some innate incapacity.
Same dev:

"Or these people could learn Rust and contribute to the existing project."
https://lemmy.ml/comment/8855579

Man I just don't get it. There's a kind of wilful ignorance here or something? It's jarring. All due respect for what's been made but this attitude... I'm not offended or have disdain, just dumbfounded at the messaging.

@Ghostalmedia
@fediverse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but this attitude

Opensource is not some public service you just request something and the developers create it for you. If anything attitude like yours are what's burning out opensource developers.

It's their time, work and effort and I am glad they're upfront about it rather than pacify everyone's request beyond what they already do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This is not about software licensing nor the spirit of FOSS.

There's some inconsistent messaging that's genuinely confusing me. I've shared an anecdote below (from a time when I was developing open source software) in the interest of generating discussion to clear it up for me and perhaps others, too. I don't mean to imply I know what is happening right here.

@pop @fediverse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I kind of feel like I’m walking into a construction site where someone didn’t some amazingly complex joinery, and I trip over the cuttings on the shop floor.

Then I say “you might want to clear a path here,” and I’m told by the woodworker that they never learned to use a dustpan, but it’s over there. “Go sweep for me.”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Ha nice analogy. Might steal it if that's ok! :)

Reminds me of a place I used to work at. Small place; 10 people. I started as a sysadmin but later started programming. They encouraged me; "yes we suck at this we need help!" so I kept going. But as the work became more involved and I needed a bit of co-operation from their side, it was torture. They didn't "suck" at it, they just didn't respect or bother themselves with that kind of work.

@Ghostalmedia @fediverse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know CSS, but not git. How can I test the webpage css and upload it to your project?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If you paste your suggested CSS improvements with example code into a new GitHub issue, that may lead to another git-savy contributor creating a pull request.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I need the js and html as well as the css for the frontend, but I can't easily see where that's located

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago