After 6 years of working on two open source projects full time (16k and 10k GitHub stars) I decided to close off issues and discussions. GitHub has a nice check

After 6 years of working on two open source projects full time (16k and 10k GitHub stars) I decided to close off issues and discussions. GitHub has a nice checkbox you can untick to remove that tab and I did it. It's a thankless job, one that's pretty stressful and it's unclear what you gain from letting people berate or complain at you about their problems. I think I mostly built these tools for myself anyway so it felt like the right time.