> I've grown tired of continuously defending my inactivity and decisions against trolls on Twitter, the issue tracker, and elsewhere. It's draining and I don't have the patience or energy to deal with it any longer. These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement f…
Don't feel bad about ignoring stupid emails. Your skin will become thicker.
Fine Uploader is shutting down
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#42At the risk of sounding uncaring or such... Ok? I mean I don't get why the owner didn't try to find someone else to graciously take the reins without a fork (maybe they tried and couldn't find anyone?), but I don't get the dramatic post and very "taking my ball and going home" tone I'm getting. Again, maybe it's just me looking to wrongly but when 4 out of 6 reasons are referring to yourself and not the project... Th…
> I don't get why [...] I find it hard to imagine [...] Perhaps consider that your failure to understand how this person feels the way they do is just that: your failure. It makes sense to me, though. I've burnt out before, and I know what that feels like. Open-source work can feel entirely thankless, and rarely pays the bills. It's very easy to get sucked into working hard to serve others while getting little in ret…
He spent 7 years maintaining a project and couldn't spend negative one hours to not type up a moan and archive the project, and instead just give literally anyone else who he credits in that exact post for helping write permission.
You forget that we're on a site with programmers who also know what it is to deal with vitriolic users of our free efforts, you and him aren't unique.
When you get burnt out, leave. You don't owe anyone more free work, but you don't owe a tamper tantrum either.
The best part is the people who showed vitriol towards him literally couldn't care less.
You think the kind of person who would insult a library maintainer on Twitter is going to read his Github issue?
"Oh it stopped getting updates" "Good, now my code won't break anymore!"
He's literally only spiting the very people who make projects like this worthwhile, the kinds of people who would want to submit PRs, make useful issues, and people with a genuine interest in the project, exactly what he's saying he lost.
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#43At the risk of sounding uncaring or such... Ok? I mean I don't get why the owner didn't try to find someone else to graciously take the reins without a fork (maybe they tried and couldn't find anyone?), but I don't get the dramatic post and very "taking my ball and going home" tone I'm getting. Again, maybe it's just me looking to wrongly but when 4 out of 6 reasons are referring to yourself and not the project... Th…
It seems like the owner was trying to find someone for over a year and nothing panned out: https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881
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#44Has anybody written a guide on how to survive having a successful open source project? I happened to have something [1] get a little usage recently and it took effort not to get sucked in. There were people with questions and needs! And I like helping people! But I also have a life to lead, so I set myself some clear boundaries and worked to consciously accepted that the project wouldn't operate at the standards I'd…
No need for a guide. Close the issue tracker. Only accept pull requests, problem solved.
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#45Has anybody written a guide on how to survive having a successful open source project? I happened to have something [1] get a little usage recently and it took effort not to get sucked in. There were people with questions and needs! And I like helping people! But I also have a life to lead, so I set myself some clear boundaries and worked to consciously accepted that the project wouldn't operate at the standards I'd…
> Has anybody written a guide on how to survive having a successful open source project? No need for a guide. Close the issue tracker. Only accept pull requests, problem solved.
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#46Does anyone know of an alternative to this library?
My impression is that until fetch supports cancel and upload progress, work on such libraries are going to have to be at least partly redone soon, and that has got to put a damper on contributions.
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#47> I've grown tired of continuously defending my inactivity and decisions against trolls on Twitter, the issue tracker, and elsewhere. It's draining and I don't have the patience or energy to deal with it any longer. These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement f…
Don't feel horrible. Just because you wrote some open source at some time doesn't mean you have to open source everything you ever write. No one can demand what you do with your free time, if they could it wouldn't be "free time".
http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.de/2014/02/why-indie-developers-g... BTW. And https://i.imgur.com/bAHVu48.jpg too.
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There is a few options, such as using AWS Cognito, or signed requests. I personally use signed requests which allows you to specify where and what type of files are allowed to be uploaded. First the user asks my server for a policy and signature, then uploads directly to S3, then sends another request to my server when done. My server will then verify and process uploaded files. Likewise requests can also be signed s…
Thanks for the explanation. Follow up question : how did you implement the signed cookies part?