New in this release
This release upgrades TagLib to 2.0, improving tag importing in general.
Also general improvements to Jukebox mode, Reverse Proxy authentication, more OpenSubsonic compatibility...
I feel that self-hosted communities are full of smart and capable people with the ability to click a link. That said, If I degraded the user experience of the community subscribers I’m happy to remove myself. There are more than enough general self hosted communities on Lemmy, each of them fit different groups to different degrees. If it’s so important to the members of this community to post descriptions, I’m happy to post in a community where it won’t impact the enjoyment of members.
I think all of the communities would rather have something more than just a bare link. I’m not sure why you’re responding with such indignation, to be honest, it was a perfectly reasonable suggestion, politely made.
Because I was exasperated and happy to remove myself.
For months I was posting updates over at Lemmy World, then someone one day decided they needed descriptions. So after some arguing back and forth, I decided to remove myself. I start posting here and rather than argue or get into a back and forth, I decide to ask for somewhere else. Little did I know that by trying to back out away from the issue, I was inadvertently causing more issues. I feel like Jackie Chan in one of his old films whereby he tries to back away from a fight and it’s taken as an insult by the folk in the restaurant and erupts into a massive fight.
I am sorry others didn’t hear you. I saw your edit and I think it makes sense. I hope you feel better soon. Emotions are a wild ride. I know from experience.
Dear OP, this whole conversation makes me think of the bullying towards open source developers, which can be seen on and off since years.
Let me also share what I have seen on Mastodon : Unlike on Lemmy, Mastodon has had support for ALT text descriptions for uploaded images for some time. Several people have been complaining when people do not add such ALT text, and even bots were made, that you could choose to follow, for people to have themselves reminded that they forgot to add ALT to an image. What I have seen several times is that people were helpful by responding and giving an ALT suggestion to the OP. That would be complaining and helping in one.
Here in this post conversation several people have asked OP for descriptions and then some tension came up. None of the people complaining took some time to add a description themselves and appear to want to make the OP do extra work.And I understand that the OP is not obliged to do that extra work. Regardless of all this I think that a nice solution here would be if OP or someone else creates a new Lemmy community with a name like e.g. selfhosted_software_releases (For open source software releases there is a Lemmy community like that. Can’t be bothered to search for the name now) which is only for software releases for self hosting. Then this and other selfhosted Lemmy community can have the announcement of that new selfhosted_software_releases Lemmy community as a pinned post or in the sidebar. The advantages of that :
OP and others will not need to add descriptions
Interested people can quickly see when there’s been new releases
Others can have a peek at software names they never heard of before and dive into the details
Selfhosted communities will go back to peace mode ;-)
I feel that self-hosted communities are full of smart and capable people with the ability to click a link. That said, If I degraded the user experience of the community subscribers I’m happy to remove myself. There are more than enough general self hosted communities on Lemmy, each of them fit different groups to different degrees. If it’s so important to the members of this community to post descriptions, I’m happy to post in a community where it won’t impact the enjoyment of members.
Hey there!, No need to take it personally. Thanks for the post, I happen to know what navidrome is and found this post helpful.
A tag would be helpful for others, not required but I think the feedback came from a good place.
I think all of the communities would rather have something more than just a bare link. I’m not sure why you’re responding with such indignation, to be honest, it was a perfectly reasonable suggestion, politely made.
It was a reasonable request, hence me saying that I’ll go elsewhere.
So you think it’s too unreasonable for you to cope with?
I don’t think you are causing any problems by not posting a small description of the project.
Sounds like you just don’t want to, why not just say that?
Because I was exasperated and happy to remove myself.
For months I was posting updates over at Lemmy World, then someone one day decided they needed descriptions. So after some arguing back and forth, I decided to remove myself. I start posting here and rather than argue or get into a back and forth, I decide to ask for somewhere else. Little did I know that by trying to back out away from the issue, I was inadvertently causing more issues. I feel like Jackie Chan in one of his old films whereby he tries to back away from a fight and it’s taken as an insult by the folk in the restaurant and erupts into a massive fight.
I am sorry others didn’t hear you. I saw your edit and I think it makes sense. I hope you feel better soon. Emotions are a wild ride. I know from experience.
I just wanted to say thank you. This was such a kind and compassionate reply.
Dear OP, this whole conversation makes me think of the bullying towards open source developers, which can be seen on and off since years. Let me also share what I have seen on Mastodon : Unlike on Lemmy, Mastodon has had support for ALT text descriptions for uploaded images for some time. Several people have been complaining when people do not add such ALT text, and even bots were made, that you could choose to follow, for people to have themselves reminded that they forgot to add ALT to an image. What I have seen several times is that people were helpful by responding and giving an ALT suggestion to the OP. That would be complaining and helping in one. Here in this post conversation several people have asked OP for descriptions and then some tension came up. None of the people complaining took some time to add a description themselves and appear to want to make the OP do extra work.And I understand that the OP is not obliged to do that extra work. Regardless of all this I think that a nice solution here would be if OP or someone else creates a new Lemmy community with a name like e.g. selfhosted_software_releases (For open source software releases there is a Lemmy community like that. Can’t be bothered to search for the name now) which is only for software releases for self hosting. Then this and other selfhosted Lemmy community can have the announcement of that new selfhosted_software_releases Lemmy community as a pinned post or in the sidebar. The advantages of that :
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