Why are the dev's here such assholes?

[serotonin]

If you don't hug their nuts for their incremental "improvements" you're treated with snark, and pure ignorance.

Discuss.

[Helios]

You start to get a little jaded when users keep talking like they know more about the emulator than the people who actually work on it do.

You start to get a little jaded when users think that developers who work on open source projects should only focus on what users want rather than what developers like working on.

You start to get a little jaded when users continuously point to entirely unrelated commits as making Dolphin slower, and won't shut up about it until you either ban them (meaning, needing to wait for them to get worked up enough to qualify) or close their threads. I've lost count how many times a user has pointed to a Wx UI commit as slowing Android down.

You start to get a little jaded when users insist everybody go out and buy a $750 USD smartphone because of one video that showed one game running for 5 minutes, all without showing what settings they used, or the actual framerate or how choppy the sound was. Then developers and forum mods are left with cleaning up the mess with questions of "I bought this phone because a youtube video said it was fast and it's actually slow?????? when will this be optimized????"

You start to get a little jaded when Android users insist on spamming irrelevant threads with how good dolphin runs on *their* device.

You start to get a little jaded when users don't realize that developers work on free open source projects for their own interests, and nobody else's. Then gets mad when those developers take a direction the users don't like. And then gets angrier when told that if they want to keep something that was removed or changed, to fork before the change happened.

Don't you think it's *weird* how nobody wants to work on the Android bits of Dolphin despite Android dev being much more accessible to get into than emu dev?


At the same time, it's dumb to put us on some sort of pedestal. Honestly, community involvement is a pretty big bane to OSS long term. As there is a massive disconnect between what users understand and what developers actually do. This won't change. This works a little differently in company-backed open source, but obviously we're not in that game.

[JosJuice]

If you don't hug their nuts for their incremental "improvements" you're treated with snark, and pure ignorance.

Discuss.

Nobody here is expecting users to "hug their nuts".

I'm fine with people not liking the Android version of Dolphin much - what I'm not fine with is people spreading misleading or incorrect information (in particular, this seems to be common when talking about performance...) and people demanding that we fix problems caused by driver bugs. Yes, driver issues suck, and it's fine to be displeased with the Android version of Dolphin for that - but telling us to fix them isn't going to help. We simply have no developers who are interested in working around mobile driver bugs and shortcomings right now (Dolphin is purely volunteer-based!), and many of the issues are actually impossible to fix without fixing the driver itself.

[MayImilae]

*shines her magic moderator hammer*

serotonin had already been temp-banned for repeated flaming and harassment before. Now it's permanent.

Aaaanyway, nothing more to see here!

*waves her magic moderator wand*

Closed.