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Husky developer quits maintaining app.... due to 2 people saying the app was buggy. :marseyfacepalm::marseycodecel:

https://rdrama.cc/notice/ALJ0hL7vQNkLtGKn68

Husky is an android app for Pleroma. Pleroma is federation software, which our fediverse instance runs.


The background

This isn't the first time the developer threw a fit and left. But this might be the funniest one

Original post where the developer ragequits

Husky is alright software, it's a fork of another software called Tusky, which also has it's own set of drama (like hardcoding "nazi" instances and blocking them), but specifically, Tusky was written for Mastodon. Mastodon and Pleroma both have backwards compatible API's, but Pleroma slaps on a lot of it's own things, such as emoji reactions, more user information, custom post limits, and much MUCH more. This means that Tusky works for both Pleroma and Mastodon servers.

Husky was started by someone who wanted to make an app more oriented for Pleroma only, adding things like Emoji reactions and such

The drama

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16841354193880649.webp

Like all software, it has bugs: but Husky has bugs that have gone unfixed for a few months. Some include notifications which don't work, like in the image, chat notifications. Posts that contain a lot of emojis can literally freeze Husky. webm emojis can glitch out sometimes, and various other bugs.

Unfortunately, this developer is an non-conformant neurodivergent (trust me, I am too) who uses Sourcehut (version control software), which is good software no doubt. Sourcehut requires that you send emails and vice versa to send tickets/issues/patches, and all discussions occur over email. Some people are fairly sensitive about their emails, although it allows people to submit issues without an account.

Two people reported bugs, specifying the bugs, explaining how the bugs are triggers on the Fediverse (Pleroma and Mastodon are part of the Fediverse FYI, it's a catch-all term). The developer saw these and responded that they must be opened through channels, the applicants do not want to do this, and just say "Please fix the bug". This very shortly led to the developer leaving, for good, and deleting his accounts. Excuse being that he receives too many complaints

Also >i dont, freakish developer doesn't even test his fricking software lmao

What's interesting about this very niche drama, is that a Pleroma frontend known as Soapbox (which, yes, has a lot more drama than this actually, the developer is a TERF etc), receives lots of complaints and deals with lots of messages hurled at him, x100 times more than the Husky developer. But oh well...

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who uses Sourcehut

Wtf let me guess a) GitHub is too corporate or b) he’s an old as frick dev

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sourcehut is rather new, its just GH being corporate

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oh I thought it was one of those shitty ones like Mecurial. The website actually looks kinda nice

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Sourcehut is nice but the dev is just neurodivergent about where issues get reported

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