For context: It feels like several new RouterOS management tools, dashboards, and similar projects are released every week. A lot of them seem to be almost completely AI-generated. It will be interesting to see where this "trend" is going.
@cigraphics I think that was a good decision. Since this is a personal project, you do not have to satisfy everyone's wishes or preferences (or flame).
One reason people use AI to create these tools is that they are unhappy with the existing solutions. But at the same time, what works well for you may not work well for someone else using the tool. It is probably impossible to make everyone happy.
There are hundreds of thousands of MikroTik users. Don't judge an entire user base or community by a few vocal individuals who may or may not have interest in your efforts. And one thing I had to learn is that just because people don't like your ideas doesn't mean they don't like you personally.
If you've never released software before, either to customers or to the public, be aware you're always going to have critics. It's part of putting yourself out there. Just like customer service and politics, people are far more likely to voice their grievances and concerns than they are their praise and positive feedback. On top of all that, the anonymity of the Internet removes normal societal inhibitions and brings out the "jerkiness" in some people, which is unfortunate.
The worst thing you can do is to give up on projects or ideas you think are valuable and useful, even if only to yourself. Who knows; perhaps one day, a side project you started for fun could be the foundation of something much larger and more important for your career and/or the people you serve.
I suggest that you step back, and take a serious look at the comments that you have received, since (apparently) you are getting similar feedback from multiple people at multiple sites.
It can only help you make your project stronger.
It's not "rude", it's simply feedback from different points of view/use cases. (At least that was my intent - I don't speak for others.)
It is obvious that if you enter a room full of strangers that have been doing whatever they have been doing for years in "their" way announcing "Hey people I have a new, modern, new way!" a number of people will understand that as "You all have been doing it wrong." and reactions won't likely be as friendly as they should be.
If to "modern" you add:
control plane <- or other similar buzzword actually void of any real-world meaning
AI integration <- mind you, your specific approach might be the third best thing in the world after sliced bread and icecream, but all people has already been - one way or the other - scorched by poorly made AI integrations or directly from AI use.
you have the perfect recipe for being treated (at least initially) by many people as the "new know-it-all-guy-that-actually-knows-nothing".
That is how it works, particularly in communities where people has worked a lot to learn how a (stupid) something works and now that they reached a certain level of familiarity with it they are told to change their ways.
Just ignore the hostile (or unfriendly) comments and show how good your approach is , a part of the intended audience will appreciate it (another part will remain clinged to their old ways, for one reason or the other), you cannot make everyone happy.
[1] you know. the kid that took his ball and went home ...
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, a part of the intended audience will appreciate it (another part will remain clinged to their old ways, for one reason or the other), you cannot make everyone happy.