Read my post history here for why I think matrix is a bag of crap. 😅

Defending my work in a public setting is not being unable to emotionally handle criticism. Framing it that way is disingenuous but I think you know that and just want to push your anti AI agenda.

Sorry, you can call me emotionally unstable all you want but if you think generating the template for the GitHub readme (not even the install instructions or anything, just the template) and some favicons invalidates hundreds of hours of work then it’s you that needs to do some reflection.

There is a reason I am concerned about “being right”. This is a project I’ve worked pretty much non stop on for about a month, have written every piece of code myself. This is a public forum and the first time I’ve put my repo out there. To have the very first response be a dismissal that the literal hundreds of hours I’ve put it into it is just AI is not only insulting, it also makes it difficult for me to get valid feedback as people won’t read past that first comment and actually look at what I’ve made.

Sorry but I won’t roll over and take it when my hard work is dismissed because I used AI to generate the GitHub readme template. That is absurd.

Appreciate the feedback, but if I’m going to be quoted, also me:

The actual meat and bones of the project, the code, is all written by me, a real human.

Let’s call a spade a spade here. It was not a legitimate GenAI concern. I considered rebasing the repo after I realised my mistake but I honestly thought no one would care, or the people that would care enough to look at commit histories would know enough about what they are looking at to realise what I did.

What OP did was look at the commit history, not understand it and then accuse me of being AI. So no, that is not in good faith.

Heh, I’ve been around a while. I expect people to pick it apart so they can get that kick out of being right or whatever.

It does what I need, thought other people might have found a use for it. I’m always happy for constructive criticism on my code or feature suggestions but people crying because I used Claude to give me a template for the readme can kick stones.

I’m sort of reluctant to add bridging mechanics for a couple of reasons. I don’t think my coding ability is up to it and it’s not something I’m really interested in or a goal for the project. I set out to make something that can be spun up pretty quickly for a group of people to have voice/text/screenshare when gaming. I never intended for it to be federated or hook into all sorts of services, just a self contained service for mostly private comms that doesn’t report back all your activity to Palantir or advertisers.

Like I said, I’m not a professional dev, this is a hobby. I fucked up my initial commit and included all the source for the Vue framework. That was me fixing my mistake. You’ll find a few more of those in there. If you actually look at the commit instead of just knee jerking you can see for yourself what happened.

To be honest, I’ve run matrix, it’s an absolute headache and to get voice and video is even worse. I don’t really care about federation, I’ve been pretty clear in what this project is.

I used Claude to give me a template for GitHub and generate the logo/favicon because I suck at all things creative. It’s open source, if someone wants to make me some images and rewrite the readme then crack on. The actual meat and bones of the project, the code, is all written by me, a real human.

Yes, I have run this myself, it works quite well. Apologies for trying to be a bit candid.

Appreciate the feedback.