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I feel like with recent events it's important for me to say this:

Keep reporting bugs, issues and criticisms.

There's already starting to be some pushback against people for reporting issues or bugs because of a recent (personal) admin post.

That was NOT the moral of that post and they made that pretty clear.

A website cannot survive if the admins surround themselves with Yes Men. That's how you get Pillowfort, which fucked up its public launch because issues reported a year or more prior got the reporter yelled at for being negative and never got fixed.

Telling people to give the devs a break every time they report something they don't like will kill this website. We can and should all remember the human yes. But "I think this button should do X and not Y" is not the same as "why haven't you fixed the button to do Y yet you assholes". People should not cut back on UX thoughts and nobody asked them to do this, but I am seeing people start to police it. Doing this will kill this website and the devs will be out of a job. That isn't a kindness to them. Please just remember that.


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in reply to @lori's post:

I actually posted something similar during the Pillowfort debacle. The userbase kept getting angry when bugs were found because "these people are just haters". It doesn't even matter if they're haters, it was TRIVIAL to impersonate people in DMs on Pillowfort, among other massive security concerns, and if your userbase responds to something that serious with getting mad at the person who found it, you're going to find yourself with way more problems, because people will stop reporting serious issues, but people will KEEP finding them, and some of those people will abuse those vulnerabilities. You never, never want to discourage people from speaking up about real issues with your site.