Is it okay to be upset at a vital project member for not being there enough any more?
Recently I've been playing on a game server I use to mod for and I now understand why I stopped.
Case study: Last month the server kept crashing. A miscoded mob attack sequence would crash the server ever time we encountered one. It took me ten minutes to push the fix. It took about as many days for the admin to show up and put everything into prod despite the frequent daily crashes.
@_sharpLimefox Your feelings are justified. You aren't getting paid enough for this bullshit.
@_sharpLimefox I should have been more explicit, then. When I talk about not getting paid enough for this bullshit, I'm not necessarily talking about wages or a salary. I'm also talking about emotional payoffs.
@starbreaker Oh, I see! Well, I got some fulfilment out of it, as well as a lot of experience working in a group of developers. It did all end up getting to me though (I also joined that project to distract myself from depressive symptoms), and for a long time after a sudden burning-out-like event I could no longer code (even on my own). I'm still apprehensive about joining new projects too..
You're right. I didn't get paid enough for that. I never will be. Yet I'm mostly upset for the players..
@starbreaker I'm not actually paid either. It's always been all voluntary, for every single developer involved (and we kept it that way). The only person dealing with any money is the admin paying for the infrastructure but they're also running their personal website and database systems on the same VPS (so it's fair enough).