[drshapeless]

Blog post author here. I never expect my blog post to get this much attention. I was emotional when I wrote that blog because I had spent a couple weeks to rewrite a service for self use. And the service was almost completely migrated to datastar from htmx.

I was facing a situation where I either need to stuck with the beta, or paying a pro version, as I was using the replace-url function a lot.

I was emotionally feeling betrayed. I went to the datastar reddit thread to raise my doubt that whether there would be more features that I rely on in the free version would be stripped out and be put behind the paywall. I was fine to convert my service to purely free tier features, when my service is stable and usable, I was very willing to buy a pro license.

But you know what? The datastar author jumped out and stated two points. He said the release version of datastar is a full rewrite, if I am not paying, I could stay in beta or fork it. And in open source world, he owned me nothing. Very legit points.

However, the real reason behind that fuck you statement is that I was attacked by the datastar discord members multiple times. In one of the humiliating replies I got, that guy said some one in the discord server told them to show support to datastar. Instead of supporting, they just mocked me and called me a troll as if I was an obstacle to their potential success, multiple people, multiple times.

I noticed some comments in the thread said that I don't know how to use version control, or ignorant towards software license. Well, I do use version control and occasionally contribute to open source projects. I am a doctor, I may not be as skillful as you all, but I do know some basics in programming.

[sudodevnull]

Our Discord is generally a friendly place, but not the nicest. If you can't backup your ideas or defend your code with metrics you are gonna have a bad time. We help those that help yourself. IIRC you were forcefully tell how things should work so it'd be more like HTMX. We tend to go tit for tat so go back and look if we were actively dissuading you from bad ideas.

[drshapeless]

I did not propose anything or push any ideas. I have only asked two questions, one was about the best practice of using datastar with go templ, one was expressing my doubt that whether more features will be behind paywall.

I got personal attacks, publicly or by DMs. A guy told me that they were told to defend the project.

The only nice thing I got from them was an alternative method to imitate replace-url function using only free-tier features.

[sudodevnull]

> A guy told me that they were told to defend the project.

Might be nice if you can back that up. I see no drshapeless in our Discord logs.

> he only nice thing I got from them was an alternative method to imitate replace-url function using only free-tier features. So we did give you an alternative to you going against how the framework is suppose to work.

Yeah that tracks with writing that blog. Good luck to ya, Datastar is definitely not a good fit.