Why is this different to Cork, Updatest and all the other myriad of new Homebrew GUI managers?
It’s different because the apps you mention were not created by the OP who joined this forum and made his first post 4 hours ago just to plug his application.
We need a forum policy on this!
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The apps you mention are native apps; this one is developed using React and looks like a web app.
Also, for me it falsely lists 19 updates… (claiming that I have an older version installed, while I’m actually up-to-date on all of those)
Uninstalled.
Agreed.
I have no objection if a long-time, active participant in this community mentions an app they made, as long as it doesn’t become the primary focus of their participation.
But when someone’s just joined and that’s their first post?
No thanks.
Even if the app is free, open source, and specifically written for MacOS?
Seems to me we ought to welcome members like that with open arms.
You do have a fair point there. There is an important difference between free and paid apps.
And yes, we should absolutely be a welcoming community — that’s one of the things I love about this forum.
This has been brought up many times before. Why the admins don’t make a category for these posts so people can block it if they don’t want see them is beyond me.
Why would you not want to see a post from someone who loves the Mac so much that he built his own app, he is proud of it, and he is sharing it with the world for free?
That seems to me like the ultimate Mac Power User.
I don’t understand then why the author chose a cross-platform stack that results in a very non-native UI…
(“Built with Wails, Go, and React”)
That’s a fair point of discussion but I don’t see it as a reason to delete his post and discourage him from participating in this Forum. He joined the group with a very meaningful contribution to MacOS open source free software - why on earth would we discourage that?
That’s an opinion that not everyone here might share?
I totally respect that this particular app may not have the feature set or other capabilities that you like. Nothing wrong with that - and nothing wrong with discussing with the developer what you see as its pros/cons vs alternatives.
But that is a different issue. My question is - why would we not want to encourage lots of open source developers to participate in the forum by sharing and discussing their creations? I am baffled by why anyone would object to that.
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We would want to do that.
I think what’s putting people off is the fact that this was the OP’s very first post, on the same day that their account was created.
They haven’t been engaged in the forum at all prior to this. They didn’t introduce themselves before plugging their app.
I have no way to know the OP’s intent, so I won’t presume to pass judgment on that. I also don’t know whether the OP has been lurking in the forums prior to creating an account, so I don’t know whether they have a sense of this community’s vibe, or are aware of the spate of spam postings we’ve had in the last month or so.
But in light of those things, I get why people are reacting negatively. Because of the context, the post comes across as rude and self-promoting, regardless of the OP’s intent.
(I’m one who should tone down my own reaction. As you rightly pointed out above, the app is free and open source, and that does make a post promoting it different than posts promoting paid apps. Still, I think our context provides a good explanation for people’s reactions.)
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Yes, we’re interested in genuine participation from the user and also things we share between us, not just receive as a broadcast. Would love to have him as a community member if he’s interested in forum discussion.
There are tons of good articles, apps, Github repos etc. from Mac enthusiasts that don’t make it here because no one wants to discuss them, and that’s okay.
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So we can only look at his/her actions.
One such action: adding MPU to the “Mentioned” section on the app’s GitHub page (but not making clear that it was the author himself/herself that mentioned it here on the MPU forum)
Another action - A collection of open source projects presumably to demonstrate his skills as a method to bulid business for his professional programming business.
That’s a pretty valid approach.