u/Bkid

MeshDash is awful, please don't use it, please don't recommend it.
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MeshDash is awful, please don't use it, please don't recommend it.

This AI garbage needs to stop, please. It's not making the community better. I don't mean to seem like I'm putting out a hit piece against this software, but this is the exact result you expect to see from vibe coding without core frontend/backend knowledge to back it up. From the website to the docs, it's awful. I've actually taken the time to put together a list of just how awful.

Here's the album so you can follow along: https://imgur.com/a/iiDc2Ye

    1. Random missing icons on the website shown as ⌧ on the website.
    1. "Setup Wizard" is linked FIVE TIMES at the bottom of the page.
    1. The Readme file is filled with useless emoji garbage.
    1. The beta download option is just a dead link.
    1. If you try to use the reinstall option and you type in your credentials, you eventually get to a page where you get an error about your email being missing.. even though you have nowhere to type it. (my email and API key have been redacted in the image)
    1. The Docs say the default auth token expiration for login is 7 days, but the setup wizard says it's 30 minutes.
    1. The manual installation instructions don't even have the path to github, it's literally "/your-org/" and was never filled out.
    1. EXTERNAL_MAP_API_BASE_URL can appear in config files but is not defined in the docs.
    1. The downloads section in the docs is just empty.

This has to stop. AI slop like this isn't doing anything but making it harder for people to get started because they think this is going to be an easy setup, but then they have to wade through a bunch of slop to maybe get it working.

This isn't the only software out there for meshtastic that's like this, and honestly I'd recommend avoiding any of them if possible.

u/Bkid — 1 day ago