[wulfeet]

I had my first negative experience contributing to open source with Mana World.

I thought that there were too few quests, so I wanted to add some. I was struggling compile code or getting the server to run or something like that. When I asked for help in the forum, I got a rude response mocking my technical abilities. It was completely demoralising and I stopped trying to make more quests.

For years, that was my last experience with contributing to open source.

[jdright]

I had similar experience with TMW. Tried to contribute with a new system in the game, made proposals and first draft implementation. I had 10 years of professional AAA gamedev at the time... I was mocked and kinda bullied.

Never looked back to this project, but explains why this project is basically stuck at the same place as before.

In any case, I didn't let this bad experience affect my passion for foss and I continued contributing to more welcoming and successful projects.

[eVeechu7]

Did you find any games to contribute to?

[opticfluorine]

Welp, glad I didn't go through with trying to contribute to TMW. That's disappointing to hear. I've had a much better experience trying to build my own MMO engine instead.

[ccvannorman]

hurt people hurt people. destruction is linear but fast. creation is slow but exponential.

I hope you found a better culture by now! It makes all the difference. I used to hate trolls but now I just empathize and pity them.

[fnordpiglet]

Interesting I always viewed it as creation is sigmoidal and destruction is superexponential.

[b0in]

my first open source experience was thinking i knew better than the mana world devs about something and just screwing things up. i dont blame them for being standoff-ish as the internet is full of teens who got up one day and said "i could build my own MMORPG. how hard could it be?"

i have my own reasons for avoiding open source (ask me about them!) but i hope your experiences got better