Step 1: Find bug in project that is blocking your ability to use it
Step 2: Visit source repo to file an issue
Step 3: No issues links... huh
Step 4: Dig through multiple layers of a docs/ directory to find "Join our discord to report issues"
Step 5: Join, ask about bug
Step 6: Get screamed at by dev and four mods because "We heard this 100 times, we know, leave us the fuck alone about it" then being banned
If only you had some way to publicly disclose what issues you knew about and what you were working on...
@trysdyn step 7 (optional): remove dependency on the grounds of the maintainers being abusive, self-defeating pricks
@elfi There's a *few* AP worlds I'd just cleanroom if I had infinite time and energy. This is the first time the reason has been spite rather than abandonment or disagreement with their design though.
@trysdyn oh, this is AP in particular? Lovely. Everything I've heard about AP has certainly made me reticent to touch the dev side with a 10 ft. pole, myself. This just takes the cake
@elfi One world of it by someone not directly affiliated with AP itself.
I'd hesitate touching the dev anyway because AP world format is horrific spaghetti but it's at least doable and you can even build a world and distribute it as a package that doesn't need any interaction with the core or its community.
@elfi I feel you on that one. I never really enjoyed them. I was pretty much at the peak of my involvement in speedrunning when the concept showed up and speedgaming and several major game communities just moved whole cloth to rando-only.
I found some I like but the saturation is just so hecking high now I kind of just let people do them and sit off in a corner any more.