• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    These projects are run by volunteers, they don’t have the unlimited budget for designers that Adobe does.

    A few screenshots would be nice. Not asking them to make a high-production video intro shot on a cruise ship with RED cameras and featuring an A-list celeb.

    And to be honest, it kinda seems like you’re just criticizing them for no good reason.

    On the contrary. I want to see them reach a wider audience. I want to see FOSS, Linux, and other open-source projects become more accessible and widely available. For me, the way many of these projects present themselves is like gatekeeping to keep people away.

    Have you personally designed and built a website that doesn’t suck?

    Yes, but I won’t doxx myself, so there’s no proof I can give you.

    Regardless, as a user and someone who wants to see open-source projects succeed, my comment should only be taken as constructive criticism.

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      6 minutes ago

      IF YOU HAVE EXPERTISE, THEN CONTRIBUTE, DAMMIT: https://developer.gimp.org/core/wgo/

      They don’t need somebody to tell them their site sucks. They need somebody to HELP them make it better, to DO the work that you seem to be implying is very easy! They’re literally begging for it on their website.

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      19 hours ago

      On the contrary. I want to see them reach a wider audience. I want to see FOSS, Linux, and other open-source projects become more accessible and widely available

      then contribute, it’s called “open source” for a reason or at least raise an issue where the maintainers can see? Not on some random link aggregation platform about an announcement?

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        6 hours ago

        Contributing is exactly what he is doing. You dont have to make a PR to contribute to a project, he is trying to bring awareness to an issue he is passionate about. Him sparking the conversation can make waves much larger than he can manage by doing the screenshot marketing for projects himself one at a time. There are way too many projects for one person acting alone to make a real dent.

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            1 hour ago

            idk, he got those words into atleast 200 peoples heads from here, and probably many more that didn’t vote on it. I would say getting that many people to think about it is pretty good for the couple minutes it took to write that comment down.