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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/gamunu on 2024-05-29 21:47:07+00:00.

I’m feeling really discouraged and frustrated right now. I recently started contributing to an open source project, and I was super excited about my PR. I spent a lot of time and effort working on it, did couple of overnight work, only to find out that someone else copied my code and raised a PR with it. To make matters worse, the maintainers accepted their PR instead of mine.

I’ve always believed in the collaborative spirit of open source, but this experience has left a sour taste in my mouth.

The more I contribute I notice this has become very common thing. How do you deal with it? Any advice?