In the past years, I have actually experienced Hacktoberfest as a really great event - both as a contributor as well as a maintainer. The recent events sadden me, but I also understand why these changes were necessary.

I just opted in to Hacktoberfest PRs for two of my projects: bat and fd. For bat, I opened three special issues for Hacktoberfest in order to help contributors who are completely new to the open source world:

- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1211

- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1213

- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1216

Curious to see how this works out. The first PRs are already coming in :-)