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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get hired elsewhere
Accept PRs that came out of thin air
Import libraries, that's out of date
Hold opinions that are filled with hate

Dumb ways to die πŸ‘―
So many dumb ways to die

Compete directly with a fork
Do your own encryption work
Let Claude code, without review
I wonder what this red button do?

Dumb ways to die πŸ‘―
So many dumb ways to die

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

There's also the projects that people think are dead because they haven't seen any significant updates in some time. But in actuality there just hasn't been any need to make changes. The code works, is mature, and feature complete. Unlike proprietary software there isn't any pressure make changes for the sake of change to convince everyone they need to buy it over again, so once the code becomes stable development naturally will slow down.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago

Ive seen this many MANY times. But I think people forget that most open source are passion projects.

You are owed nothing at all when someone publishes their code on the internet. Thats what it is, its just an instruction manual to do a thing. Unless you pay something for the privilege of support, complaints will do next to nothing. Even now on lemmy/piefed/fedi.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So good to finally have a label for what went wrong with Drupal!

Stranded major

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I didn't realise Drupal is still around! ~~I remember when they forked from Mambo and I had to convert a few sites across. That was probably 20 years ago now!~~ this was Joomla - I misremembered

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it was joomla that forked from mambo site server after the latter made organizational changes many of the devs didn't like.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 month ago

Oops! You're right!

[–] makeshift0546@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were second to wp just a few years ago.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

HackTheBox has a lot of Drupal machines

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Fuck now the song is stuck in my head