If there is a lot of donations, I agree with you. Perhaps AnkiDroid’s donation amount is $2,475/month, they have multiple people developing so when distributed it is at most a few hundred dollars/month per person, this means they can only develop one day a month.
So my estimate is that $200 is reasonable for you to request something from him, and you could hire someone to developer for one day. If you are an angel investor and willing to pay around $3,000/month, I will support you too, their development speed will double.
If not, this problem has not been requested by users at all, even though several years have passed, thus 3 million active users of AnkiDroid are satisfied with the app, so I think it is economical to leave it without repairing it.
That’s right, thus at least 2 out of 3 million people consider it a problem.
In programming, it is more important that it works than cleanliness and improvement. If a developer fixes a lot of small problems, another problem may occur and break it, so they need to be done carefully.
So just like in medicine, if the patient is not seriously ill it is proper not to operate.
Yes, legendary bugs in programming occur that way. (like the CrowdStrike, maybe they just pushed a simple update)
If a developer pushes a 100 times such a small fix, there is a possibility of a mysterious and fatal bug somewhere, and as you say it is showing on all screens of AnkiDroid users, so there is a risk of destroying them all.
I don’t have a vote, but I think it is fine to block a troll every now and then. This user has been on my ignore list here for some time (I just happened to see this post in an email summary). Here is my complete list:
General Anki users do not need to know about the Anki ecosystem and how development works, so I think there are many add-ons users who think like the OP. (many of them consider development to be obligation not volunteer work)
I think that clarifying the criteria for blocking by (unofficial) community rules for general users would prevent such problems, something like this.
Yes, I too think that is good enough for this forum.
There are no guidelines or rules on add-ons pages, so developers and users often argue in the comments, so I call them slums or add-ons graveyards.
I agree with you. But I would say the maintainers of AnkiDroid, unlike other volunteers have some moral obligations that others don’t. With power comes responsibility.
I genrally don’t pontificate about morality so I wouldn’t go into details.
@johncaiwa there have been a number of times where I have felt your contributions came across as negative and rude. We have users here reporting your posts, and both devs and other users feeling the need to block you, and it’s getting to the stage where I have to start thinking about whether your presence here is a net positive for the community. Please consider adjusting your behaviour, or moving on if you are unable or unwilling to do so.
