It feels like gradually things are getting 'less fun'. We can't have nice things, people can't do jokes, everything is like "your service must be completely professional even if it is just this thing you needed and built and offered to others for free". Everything is SO SERIOUS now, when one thing isnt how a small group feels it should be, suddenly everyone mobs up and more fun disappears.

Is there a generation thing that made this happen? It seems now that no matter what you do, if it deviates from what a paying user would expect, even if the thing is free, that as a developer you can get called up in front of these ad-hoc tribunals of the common man to answer and atone for your sins.

It's so dumb the way the internet is going, I thought when we invented it that things would be so much better. I have nothing but spite for the last 20 years of the way we have treated this golden resource.

I think we've largely just decoupled the fun and goofy projects from the mainline projects; I think businesses have less of a sense of humor than engineers.

[1] https://github.com/Herzult/SimplePHPEasyPlus [2] https://github.com/philipl/pifs [3] https://github.com/hubsmoke/bro [4] https://github.com/jneen/balls