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[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Open source just means people are free to edit it and distribute their changes. Hardcoding things like this is bad practice no matter if it’s open source or not. It’s not maintainable. Maintainable as in easily maintainable, I.e., configuration files not code edits.