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Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

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> 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.

Not emails, these were public.

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

#42
post #32

At 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…

Pathetic doesn't begin to describe your waxing poetic about standards I live up to, you don't know the first thing about me so get off your self. The worst part is you probably think it's pithy too.

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.

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

#43
post #24

At 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

Looks like the opposite? Thread ends with saying someone new is taking the reins, that person is part of the FileUploader organization, there's even a commit to formally end the search made that same day...

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

#44
post #35

Has 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.

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

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post #44
post #35

Has 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.

I also like the "just give maintainer rights to people who submit good PRs" approach I have heard of. Used it successfully on one of my open source projects that I no longer cared about.

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

#46

Does anyone know of an alternative to this library?

The best is probably Dropzone, but it doesn't have support for Amazon or some of the other features this does.

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.

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

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> 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".

Certainly people can demand that. It's easy and simple to make that kind of demand. That's why this is a problem — nowadays we have convenient peer-to-peer communication, and there's a set of people who receive a significant amount of verbal manure, but don't have the professional filter staff of most public personae, so they have to deal with the manure themselves.

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.de/2014/02/why-indie-developers-g... BTW. And https://i.imgur.com/bAHVu48.jpg too.

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not emails, these were public.

Could you block the people who posts crap like that?

When you read it, it’s too late. You generally don’t respond, but I didn’t even know I shouldn’t have. I’m very much a beginner at being in the spotlight.

Re: Fine Uploader is shutting down

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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?

Use the the aws sdk to generate credentials on your server, pass the returned creds to your frontend. The request to generate the credentials allows you to lock down the size and type of file. They can go directly into a form or used in javascript. Lot of github libs and stack overflows that go into more detail. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/sigv4-UsingH...
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