phil9Some time ago I was discussing with <a href="https://hj.9fs.net/moody" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@moody@hj.9fs.net</a> who was kindly helping review a man page I was writing I was contemplating how friendly I found the 9front community to be.<br>With the recent shitfest on 9fans ML I wanted to share the story of my journey with 9front.<br>It all started with the "A tour of ACME" video by rsc, I tried using acme for a while then got curious about the operating system it originated from. I looked for a distribution to install and ended with 9front which looked the most active and most documented (at the time it seemed to me 9legacy was not really maintained).<br>With 9front installed in qemu I started exploring the system, reading as much as I could in the man pages and the FQA to try to get a grasp of the system. Not being the smartest one I ended with some issues I could not understand and needed help. I then joined the (dreaded) <a href="https://hj.9fs.net?t=cat-v" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cat-v</a> IRC channel asking my newbie/stupid questions. People there were nothing but kind and patient, trying to help me fix my issues. It turns out that people are willing to spend their time helping you as long as you show you made some effort yourself (which seems reasonable). As a thank you, I contributed a patch to the FQA to complete the documentation with the info I gathered from people helping me.<br>I started trying to write some code on 9front, quickly got a huge liking for the overall model and API and spent my time developing toy applications (fun fact, with a few exceptions I don't use any of them, I just like coding for a hobby). Each time I had a question, something I did not understand, I found people to help me fix my issues, enlighten me on some topics, etc.<br>It has now been 5+ years I started this whole journey, reading the ML, spending time on IRC and the grid. In all these years I have met some very smart people, seen many interesting discussions (some heated but that's what you get when people are passionate), the whole community has been nothing but great and friendly.<br><br>What I've been reading these past days on 9fans could not be farther from my experience, maybe people some time should contemplate they might be the actual problem...<br>All in all, it looks like when you come with a humble attitude, trying to give as much as you get and not behave as if people owed you something or you were entitled to anything might help, but I might very well be wrong :)<br><br>TL;DR great community, would recommend...5 stars<br>