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Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique look and feel imagined by the user who creates it. It’s a very exciting project!

Unfortunately, the effect is spoilt by an incredibly toxic and hateful community. I cannot recommend Hyprland to anyone who is not prepared to steer well clear of its community spaces. Imagine a high school boys' locker room come to life on Discord and GitHub and you’ll get an idea of what it’s like.

I empathise with Vaxry. I remember being young, smart, productive… and mean. I did some cool stuff, but I deeply regret the way I treated people. It wasn’t really my fault – I was a product of my environment – but it was my responsibility. Today, I’m proud to have built many welcoming communities, where people are rewarded for their involvement, rather than coming away from their experience hurt. What motivates us to build and give away free software if not bringing joy to ourselves and others? Can we be proud of a community which brings more suffering into the world?

Update: Response from Vaxry, Hyprland Developer

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this guy just learned about discord general chats lol

they're all this bad, and also they're absolutely dogshit for open source software so I have no idea why people make them

[–] moonpiedumplings 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm in the max server limit, 100 right now, and many of those are people who treat discord as github, which is so annoying (but many projects are of questionable legality, like Dan's palace which makes and distributes completed android and vita ports of other games for free).

One time I got excited since there was announcement for the half life 2 android source port discord. I thought it was a big update or maybe a new game, but what I saw was something like:

the memes channel is for memes, not child porn

It's just discord that has these issues. Matrix or IRC don't have these problems. Discord just creates a kind of culture that fosters this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah it really attracts the young gamer crowd, not exactly for serious discussion

[–] h_a_r_u_k_i 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This. I'm tired of all short responses that don't want to discuss the problem or steer the topics to a direction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope it's all over matrix as well.

[–] moonpiedumplings 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't encountered any of these issue on matrix, but admittedly I haven't joined a lot of matrix chats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was/am a mod for a LGBT room. I had to take a break it's gotten so bad lately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your discord general chat looks like this you are in the wrong discord

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

You frontin like there's any better quality chat then that