People don't always give a fuck about the "opensource ecosystem", they just want to program something they find fun...

Unfortunately a lot of people don't give fucks about others.

Publishing a weekend fun project on github and taking contributors away from from other projects is not always nice.

If it's just a "fun project" put a clear warning that it's not meant to be trusted, used, contributed to.

Github, by design, defaults to showing issue trackers & so on, giving the impression that a project is "real".

Then you go looking for something to use and find 100 half alive projects instead of 2 good ones.

Whatever happened to opinions of people, likes and interests. So what if its fragmented? Isn't forking a crucial thing in open-source anyone can build and support whatever the fuck the want. There are thousands of other tech forums why do we need hacker news to fragment tech community.

>Then you go looking for something to use and find 100 half alive projects instead of 2 good ones.

That can be solved with curation. Where are the curating organizations/websites?

I feel the same way about ice cream. Why are there 8 different types of vanilla ice cream, including 4 from the same brand? French Vanilla, Canadian Vanilla, Vanilla Bean, Double Churned Vanilla, 3 different plain Vanilla.

This harms the ice cream ecosystem.

Absurd comparison.

No it doesn't. People are free to pick the best implementation to suit their needs.

When all implementations are half-assed and none of them do it properly. However they have plenty of flamewars and ideological arguments #LinixDesktop