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On one hand, this is fantastic and desperately needed. I've wanted something similar for years.

On the other hand, I've been an open-source developer (one of my projects has 7.5k stars on GitHub) and the constant stream of negativity towards that the work I put hundreds of hours into for free was pretty psychologically draining, to say the least. And it's actually a pretty well-liked project! By making such a service you take on a lot of responsibility here.

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I feel you.

I heard from several maintainers about this phenomena, where at first all you want is your package is to be popular and have many users, but after a while you notice having more users is becoming a burden, with so many requests, issues, and opinions.

But I can see what you mean. We're still small enough, but I would assume if Openbase becomes a success we take on a lot of responsibility - in terms of making sure maintainers rewarded (not necessarily monetarily) and not punished for their good work.

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