I find this unnecessarily derisive. There are good reasons for a UI or README not being user-friendly, the top-most one being (imo) that it is really, really hard to get right, takes a lot of time and doesn't primarily solve the problem the project was started for.
Yes they are wrong. A contribution may consist of "merely" a bug report. Even just asking questions may indicate that the UX or documentation is lacking.
I used tmsu ("tag my shit up") for a while, but it required too much discipline and then I dropped it.
In addition, tools like fzf for fuzzy file-search (comes with shell integration to e.g. replace the default history search in bash) and ripgrep-all made this kind of organization unnecessary for me. It now suffices to have a vague idea where a thing is located and I can do a brute-force search in a few seconds.
The next-level filesystem argument is brought forward every few months, but I'm not buying it.
I didn't even know about libredirect :)
There are also mutt and neomutt.
I personally have been using the latter for years, but it requires some time to setup and tweak until it fits your purposes.
Documentation is top-notch though, and customizability a first-class concern.
No? This will search the logfiles (if irssi is configured to create those at all) for a pattern. This still requires that you had to have an irssi client running and connected to the server/channel in question, during the time the user is afk. Which is why others recommend e.g. setting up ZNC.
I think you generally can't know if someone shared their code with the intention that others may use it, but it's a reasonable assumption.
Yeah but like WHAT?