It's very sad to see this happen. Open Source project leads, this is important: You need to stop thinking about other people using your project. It's incredibl

It's very sad to see this happen. Open Source project leads, this is important: You need to stop thinking about other people using your project. It's incredibly kind of you to consider your users so much, but OSS only works (in the I'm-just-a-guy-in-a-basement-without-funding way) if it is a personal project. That is to say, if it's something you make for yourself, for fun. Once you start worrying about other people, how they will use it, what they want, etc, it stops being fun. If it's not fun, and you're not getting paid for it, it's just going to kill the project (and can make you totally stressed out). There are strategies you can use to maintain the project: - Put out a call for help on your README. Ask for developers to join your project. Ask for people to field user requests. Ask for people to write documentation. You may not get any help at all, but sometimes all you need to do is ask. - Create a specific method of receiving requests, like a mailing list (one for bugs, one for discussion, one for feature requests, one for security). A mailing list can act as a small road block to filter out less urgent requests, and can make it slightly easier to manage in one place. - In the past I have tried "feature bounties", a sort of donation where someone paid me just to develop some feature. It didn't work out well. I still had a full-time job, so while the extra money was nice, I still had to dedicate all my extra time to the feature, and if I got sick of it and wanted to quit, I felt extra bad because I had accepted a donation just for it. Plus it required more support later. So I still think you should ignore any requests that aren't something you personally want, and remind people to send you patches if they want code merged. Donations are nice, but be wary if they make you feel beholden to the users. - Be direct with people. Tell them, "This is my personal project, I only spend X hours a week/month on it, so do not expect any support or features." Sometimes this is enough to get people off your back. Otherwise, I recommend moving off of GitHub or disabling all the features so you don't get barraged with requests. - Above all: have fun! If you're not having fun with your project, either end it, or make some changes to make it fun again.