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This sounds amazing. It's unfortunate that Graphene OS has so much toxicity around it, but this design decision is amazing. Love it.
I tried quickly looking for the feature, but I couldn't find it. I searched for "Graphene OS Matrix chat homepage guest user", "Graphene OS chat homepage guest user", "Graphene OS chat homepage", and "Graphene OS homepage QR" but didn't find what you mentioned.
Matrix config has an option named "guest mode", that is what I believe they're using.
Ah. I searched for it and found that guest mode was disabled on Matrix.org's servers. I wonder if making it work in another server is easy, either with or without GrapheneOS…
Toxicity? How so?
https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/v5n1yv/whats_your_opinion_on_graphene_os_community/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30929526
A quick search lead to these links. They're 3 years old. Maybe the community has changed since then.
It has. Strangely enough they posted a code of conduct after that feedback and started weilding the ban hammer. However I cannot speak to outside forums like XDA or Reddit or even comms here. I tend to stick to their forums or github
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/t/general
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues
Oh wow. That's a pleasantly surprising code of conduct. If the code of conduct is consequential, I stand corrected about my view of Graphene OS.
That matters? Why does developer behavior influence your judgement over whether you will use certain pieces of software? Just curious
You're bringing up a fair point, similar to "can you separate the art from the artist"? I think it's possible; I've seen mean and disparaging people do amazing work. Heck, at times I've been a cranky worker cranking out good work.
However, I also know that toxic people are hard to work with and limit their own potential and that of others. A quick look at the ACT literature, the intrinsic motivation literature, the learned-helplessness literature, and the Lybomirsky et al. meta-analyses from 2008 and 2018 all point to the same idea: psychologically flexible people are happier and that leads to better work and more productivity, but not the other way around.