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1. franci+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-02 19:46:07
I'd rather OSS authors write and improve the software and documentation for most people than do the very time-consuming, burnout-inducing free customer support you are suggesting here (especially for those not bothering of reading even the first paragraph of the documentation).
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2. IshKeb+0p[view] [source] 2026-01-02 22:17:38
>>franci+(OP)
It's not customer support; it's giving the product good usability. I would much rather they do that than waste time writing documentation that people won't read.

I think a concrete example would help here. Let me find one from this repo...

Ok after looking through about 20 discussions I was actually unable to find a single one that was a misunderstanding or misconfiguration on the user's part. They appear to all be real bugs (or feature requests), and very high quality ones at that.

So I think their assertion that 80-90% of what people think are bugs are actually not is total and utter bullshit.

That's kind of unrelated to what we were discussing though; misunderstandings due to poor usability do happen but I guess we can't easily find examples in Ghostty.

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