Pretty funny how the entire HN rallied together to solve some github issue on someone's personal repo. I'll try posting some of my bugs here to see if it'll work for me as well.
The trick would be to make the bugs interesting: weird or hard, preferably both.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It’s a little strange because for Reddit’s r/legaladvice it’s the opposite. Follow up posts can rank much more highly than the original.
Reddit on the other hand is passive entertainment, users are more interested in a novel problem that someone else dealt with.
But an update? That means there's actual feedback and conclusions! Something that's desperately lacking on that particular board.
It's not about reddit as a whole.
The only bugs that HN will want to solve, will be the ones that should be solved by the community.
After reading an issue like that I would be very hard pressed to motivate myself to contribute anything.
Given that no one stepped up to do it yet and random users chimed in with aggressive and/or unhelpful noise, locking the issue was adequate.
I find it concerning how much abuse GNOME devs get, and I can completely understand that they respond like this.
Fun to see the problem and the solution. Thanks Ned and thanks HN.
Source: have seen nedbat@ in action.
Seriously though, we can't know every single third-party package under the sun. But this one is more important than the average.