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by AlienRobot 388 days ago
No webpage. No screenshots. Not even Releases?

I'm not trying this app.

The readme is more about the technical details of the code than the actual features of the app. Where do I go to see what this thing can actually do?

Do people expect me to run the program just to see if I want to run the program?
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trevinhofmann 388 days ago
There are some demos in the Docs [1] linked from the README, but I believe that's still very useful feedback. I will pass it along. Thank you!

[1] https://github.com/cybersemics/em/wiki/Docs

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AlienRobot 387 days ago
I did take a look at that, which is probably more than most people would have done, and by take a look I mean a skimmed for images because I'm not reading 2000 words of text for an app I don't even use yet. The only images I found showed how drag and drop works.

I know this is common with projects that think Github is a replacement for a website, but I genuinely wonder how does it get so bad that a 5 year project with 9000 commits and 60 contributors doesn't have a single screenshot. Nothing personal or particular about this project specifically, just... the whole open source culture of dropping something on Github and not even doing the bare minimum to have other people get to know the project.

It feels like such a waste. It could be an amazing project but who is going to bother with it if they can't see what it looks like?

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