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Yeah, I’ve never seen a community more off-putting than this one. I’m thankful for it, it works on my robot, but I wouldn’t help or participate in any way. But it’s like they don’t want help or be a community like mentioned in their docs. In contrast, for example, https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt was such a welcoming community.

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> This project is the hobby of some random guy on the internet. There is no intent to commercialize it, grow it or expand the target audience of it. In fact, there is intent to explicitly not do that.

Then it begs the question of why they even publicize the Telegram chat. I guess it’s for contributors only, not a support chat.

For some robots, they intentionally published false rooting instructions online, so you could only get it rooted via the telegram chat.

Then they banned you if you asked the wrong questions in there.

It's certainly the most hostile place on the internet I've encountered so far.

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