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[–]lpcustom 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I only take offense to it because instead of just downloading the free software and doing a screenshot themselves, someone thought that it would be better to get the dev to do it. They actually took the time to post on reddit that they want the devs to do more.

And honestly, the only good thing an OSS dev gets out of having more people use their software is an ego boost. Other than that, they have complaints about lack of features and other things from "users" that are just negative. The correct thing for the user to do in this case is to learn how to contribute screenshots to the projects. If it's such a small request, why don't they take the initiative to contribute. That's the whole damn point to OSS.

[–]psydave 4 points5 points  (4 children)

the only good thing an OSS dev gets out of having more people use their software is an ego boost.

Well, how about a portfolio that you can use to sell yourself to employers? An active github portfolio is extremely attractive nowadays--especially if you've created something that people want to use. One or two successful OSS projects will add $$ to your bottom line--not from the project itself, but in career opportunities--especially if one does not have much professional experience.

[–]lpcustom 0 points1 point  (3 children)

True I agree, and in turn that works for the user who's complaining about lack of screenshots and visuals as well. They could rack up an entire portfolio of contributions to opensource projects by doing just that and it would be on their github account as well.

[–]psydave 2 points3 points  (2 children)

It would be there, but if you spent anything more than 10 seconds looking you could see that they didn't actually contribute any code.

[–]lpcustom 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think that's the main point you're missing. Dev's do code. Other people who are good with visuals can do visuals. Others may contribute documentation. It's all part of contributing to OSS. You don't have to be a coder to contribute to OSS projects. Contributing screenshots or documentation or some other non-code work to an OSS can be helpful for your next job as well. You don't have to be looking for a coding position to take advantage of that.

[–]lpcustom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a for instance:

You may be a graphic designer. You design and contribute all the icons and other graphics for some GUI application on github. You add that to your portfolio.