When I hear about developers leaving, I've always come to realise that the people who start drama, being disrespectful to one another, rudely criticising developers on what they do and being ungrateful for the tools that the developers have made. It makes me sad to think of the developers who made the tools, spent countless hours contributing to the source code and not getting much positive feedback from users, in which would make the developers feel less motivated to work on their projects.
What it has made me realise... is that I am pretty much responsible for some of the disrespectfulness that I have been giving to some of the developers around here. I've asked for functions without saying anything positive about the tool or even stating about how helpful it is. There have been other people who have said "Add [function] to this tool, I really want it" and "Are you going to make such a feature?" There's been times when I haven't respected the developer's decision on what they wanted to do with their project, just because I disagreed with what the developer was doing. But as time has gone on, I've come to realise that even if I disagree with a decision, I should always say something positive about the project, rather look down on them.
I can tell you, if there were rules in place on GBATemp that actually prevented users from saying rude comments or begging for features to be added without giving any positive feedback or reporting bugs, then it would more than likely have made me rethink about what I should type in a forum post. It's only now that I've realised that I, along with many other users here on the forum have been responsible for the developers quitting from their projects and leaving the community.
We are only human after all, I've made plenty of bad decisions before, and I'm still learning every day, right? I'd like to see a community in where we can all get along together and not be starting drama all over the place, and I'm sure GBATemp was always intended to be a very civilised forum.
As for
@erman1337 , he got fed up with all the drama on the forums and everywhere else. The people were always being negative on what he was doing, was what made him decide to quit Themely altogether, and create a closed source version of it, due to the ungrateful people saying negative things of his project.
As for
@TheCruel , he was jailed due to possessing child pornography on his servers. But even if he has committed such crimes, we can't forget about the positives that he has done for the Homebrew community. He was responsible for creating a .3dsx downloader (similar to Wii U App Store) called Brewman, along with the source code of his Brewman server. He was also known for creating freeShop, a Homebrew tool that is offered as an alternative to the Nintendo eShop which enables users to redownload titles that they've already purchased. But now, freeShop is continued to being developed by the Homebrew community.
As for
@Rinnegatamante , this user quit the Homebrew community due to all the drama and negative comments given and complaints. Same thing happened to
@Aurora Wright and other users who were hit with so much negativity.
I must deeply appologise to all the developers that I criticised as well as not providing any positive feedback.
If anyone wants them back, please... be respectful and give plenty of positive feedback and bug reports. And no rude criticism.
That's all that needs to be done ^^
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