I can definitely feel that, but I fear it’s something I’m going to have to rewire my brain to fix over time. I’ll try to keep my manic episodes less public and instead focus the energy on offering feedback or writing feature requests.
I was told that sort of role is something that is earned not applied for. While I wouldn’t mind doing that, I’m not sure why anyone would listen to my input specifically at this moment as I don’t exactly contribute much just yet.
That sounds more doable, or at least a good place to start to build rapport. But I’ve already been trying to do that, bringing up suggestions to make animator’s lives easier, writing the workflow quirks I ran into while animating, trying my best to provide feedback to a rare animation dev build I’d love to try out, despite being on the wrong platform.
It all just vanishes into the ether. Like I’ve said before I don’t mind having to argue my case, having to prove to devs something is worth it or necessary from an objective standpoint, and I don’t mind devs saying ‘not right now’/‘no’ with an explanation why. But there’s just nothing, no replies. I don’t know how to contribute otherwise besides the bug reports I’ve been doing for years.
I already suffer through this, I download the latest master nightly before any drawing session and jot down bugs I come across in Sublime to report after.
That’s pretty much how it’s always been my entire artistic career. I’ve had thousands stolen from me from multiple payment providers because of my art, friends have had major corporations try to claim ownership of their characters or works, I’ve been banned from several social medias for my artwork, received multiple death threats, people are just very rude all around the internet if you don’t fit into their box.
At this point it’s battered dog syndrome, it’s easier for me to assume everyone’s an enemy until proven otherwise. Prevents pain. I do hope to overcome this and help make Krita the best it can be, but it might take some time to acclimate. Getting it out in the open with the thread has helped.
Thanks everyone for contributing to the discussion and helping knock some sense into me. It’s clear I have a couple things to work on myself, and a couple things to work on doing better for the community. I’ll see if I can dig up anything I can do that isn’t typing or bug reporting (which is typing, but with logic!).
If anyone has any quick suggestions for ways I can contribute that might not be instantly obvious from the forums, and can point me in the right direction I’m all ears.