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Comment by rowanG077 | Hacker News Reader

I actually find that hugely helpful that so many people are actually actively expressing they are hitting this. It's not easy to be able to get an idea what issues people are actually hitting with anything you have made. An issue being bumped with essentially "me too" is a highly valuable signal.

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That's why github added emoji reactions many years ago, so you can express "me too" without spamming the notification systems.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/add-reactions...

I very rarely use emojiis on github. If I can't add anything to the discussion / issue, I post nothing. So if there's enough people like me, an issue can languish.

However the barrier to entry for a lot of issues reporting is pretty tall - requiring triplicate documentation of everything. It's like an overreaction to the sort of people that need to be told to unplug something for 30 seconds to continue the support call.

And that's if they even "allow" issues.

I was posting in issues note frequently 1-3 years ago. I'm sure I'd be sheepish about some posts.

Do you really think the maintainers don't understand that "doesn't work with Python 3.13" isn't going to affect tons of people?

There's some bozo asking "any news? I cant downgrade because another lib requirement" just two days after the maintainer wrote several paragraphs explaining how difficult it is to make it work with Python 3.13. This adds no value for anyone and is just noise. Anyone interested in actual useful information (workarounds, pointers on how to help) has to wade though a firehose of useless nonsense to get at anything remotely useful. Any seriously discussions of maintainers wanting to discuss things is constantly interrupted by the seagulls from Finding Nemo: "fix? fix? fix? fix? fix?""

Never mind the demanding nature of some people in that thread.

Just upvote. That's why this entire feature was added.

After seeing "Jigar Kumar" cognitive exploits on xz mailing list a maintainer would be excused (and I'd even say, encouraged) to just ignore pressure tactics altogether. It's an open source project - if it works great, if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

To the non-technical founder, this is doing something.

They will not move to ~~mocking up~~ sketching a wireframe of something.

Considering the python ecosystem is not keen on staying updated anyway, I wouldn't be surprised a maintainer doesn't realize a new python version not working is that important.

Reactions, though.

It’s not just that, it’s people commenting “this is unacceptable” and “I hate this library” that add very little value.

Also, you can upvote issues as well / leave reactions without leaving comments. It ensures a better signal:noise ratio in the actual discussion.

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