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How GitHub made me go insane
- alexandrerond 11y agoFirst-world problems. tl;dr. Author runs some projects on Github and freaks out because people reach back with issues. "I simply took everything and got rid of it. I couldn’t face the guilt of people expecting me to dedicate time to their specific issues." Then goes on to write a blog post to tell the world of the awful experience of being notified and expected to help.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoMy buddy Tom has a popular game (in a fairly small community) that they're always pressing him to make open (put on GitHub). He tells them "Its my hobby. Why would I give my hobby away? How would it help me to let you take my hobby away?" This article adds a new reason to keep stuff private: you can go crazy with all the clamoring to improve or 'fix' things.