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   Sam :verified: (sam@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 20:09:55 JST Sam :verified:

   For those of you that are like "Submit a pull request to Mastodon instead of complaining", what you don't understand is that pull requests to Mastodon do not get merged lol.

   There are almost 400 pull requests open rn on GitHub. Some of them have been open for more than 5 years.

   If Eugen does not immediately approve of a pull request and it wasn't a feature he was going to implement anyway, it does not get merged. It just stays open until you close it with no comment from him.

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     Louis (louis@emacs.ch)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 05:12:06 JST Louis

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     @sam Perhaps it is time for a hard fork?

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     Sam :verified: (sam@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 05:12:08 JST Sam :verified:

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     And you know what gets merged most often?

     Not actual feature development. Not things that would make life easier for admins or users.

     Just refactorings of specs or existing features.

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     Sam :verified: (sam@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 05:12:09 JST Sam :verified:

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     OOPS sorry there are almost FOUR HUNDRED open pull requests right now.

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     Sam :verified: (sam@urbanists.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 05:12:10 JST Sam :verified:

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     There are exactly four people that have made more than ten commits in the past month to Mastodon. Eugen is not even in the top 3. There are more than 399 active pull requests open right now ready to be merged.

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     Sam :verified: (sam@urbanists.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 18:05:46 JST Sam :verified:

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     So like I'm sorry if I seem a bit aggressive towards Eugen, but what we are witnessing right now is the slow decay of a platform with millions of users and thousands of developers all because one man refuses to let anyone else except for three other people he trusts add features to the project.

     Sorry, but Mastodon to me does not belong to Eugen. It belongs to the community. And I don't like that he's gatekeeping that.