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Welcome back! One of the worst parts of open source is when someone who has been happily getting value out of your free product for 4 years opens an issue to c

• abrookewood 9y ago
  I don't think this is fair. The mods want the site to be successful and the parent is pointing out something that should be a cause for concern for them. No one wants HN to turn into the next Slashdot.
  • Bakary 9y ago
    Surely the mods are able to figure out what the site needs better than any regular user, by virtue of their continued monitoring?
    • Dylan16807 9y ago
      It's somewhat more likely but I wouldn't say "surely" at all. There are a lot of other factors.
  • dagw 9y ago
    But a bug report that says "Your program seems to have gotten slower over the past four years and I feel like it's crashing more often. Please fix it" isn't very useful. A couple of concrete examples of specific problems with some suggestions on what should have been done in those cases would have made the post much more informative.