[ravenstine]

Why even bother being on Twitter? I keep hearing developers encouraging each other to be active on Twitter, but who gives an actual fuck what goes on with Twitter? All it seems to do is generate drama on every front. Do developers(or anyone) really need to be on there? If I were the owner, I would have just closed my Twitter account in the face of demanding freeloaders.

[bluetwo]

Who, indeed.

[BoorishBears]

I respect their right to be on Twitter in peace, but yeah I'd probably block users before I'd list Twitter complainers as a reason how I'm closing the lock on a popular library and throwing away the key instead of just walking away yourself... because that's definitely one way to get a lot of people (imo rightfully) complaining about what you did.

Also kind of kills your credibility in the future. Walking away over toxicity is fine, doing it like this? Not so great. (of course there's something especially egregious we don't know about, but they're laying a lot out in that post, I'd expect to see it there...)

[justin66]

> Also kind of kills your credibility in the future. Walking away over toxicity is fine, doing it like this? Not so great.

Credibility, yeah. Sure, this guy gave away his work for seven years but can we trust him to work for free in the future?

[BoorishBears]

Exactly.

Because every day millions of people give away their work.

I give away my work. I've dealt with rude people using software I made since I was pretty much a kid, those people didn't know who their vitriol was directed at.

What makes this guy so special that to spite the vitriolic subset of all users he gets to be the one who throws a wrench in a project?

I said this in a comment below:

You think the kind of person who would insult a library maintainer on Twitter is going to read his Github issue?

"Oh it stopped getting updates" "Good, now my code won't break anymore!" "Security vulnerabilities in libraries? What?"

He's literally only spiting the very people who make projects like this worthwhile, the kinds of people who would want to submit PRs, make useful issues, and people with a genuine interest in the project, exactly what he's saying he lost.

[dasyatidprime]

Block only works after you know which users. At a certain scale it stops being “particular people get a grudge against you” and becomes “they're acting this way out of being in a particular cultural milieu and set of expectations”, and trying to block that is like trying to block the tide one water droplet at a time.

[akerl_]

The creator made their work available for free. Sorry you don’t enjoy that they decided to stop doing that, for this project, in a way you don’t find agreeable.

[Justin_K]

You write as if he's obligated to continue to work for free...

[BoorishBears]

Explain how me saying "he should walk away without archiving the project" equates to he should continue to work for free?