I've been working in my freetime on a hobby project that a certain established community will use (sub 10k users, unironically the project with the largest userbase I ever created so far). We had yesterday a design meeting for that project. Now I'm even more frustrated that this, unpaid, position has much more documentation and clearly set expectations than my work project. Nobody is being paid for that project compared to a project that costs nearly half a million per year to just run now (we are working on a cheaper replacement now).

But nobody is being paid in that community, everyone is volunteering. Heck, the people that are running it do not have professional experience in project management or running a company and they are doing an awesome job. I do however notice that they are inexperienced in some parts. They want to make designs for that project and just had 1 brainstorm session and just started working on it. It did look great but not really usable (UX-wise). i'm very motivated by their passion lol

We have recommended some design flows & changes in their flow and they were open in trying it.