I think there's a lot of open-source projects that are somewhere in between the two extremes presented in the article (communities vs makers-and-fans). As a mai

I think there's a lot of open-source projects that are somewhere in between the two extremes presented in the article (communities vs makers-and-fans). As a maintainer of a project with more moderate user base, it's a mix. I have a lot of interactions with contributors that are very rewarding to me, and also add genuine technical value. On the other hand, there are also a lot of contributions that are more of like "support requests", where I feel like I need to respond to them because it's my responsibility. I would guess that the bigger a project's user base gets, the greater the proportion of interactions that are more like makers-and-fans.