They are an excellent writer, so it's a loss for them to leave, but I can't shake the feeling that people who look for a sense of community in an OSS project ar

They are an excellent writer, so it's a loss for them to leave, but I can't shake the feeling that people who look for a sense of community in an OSS project are barking up the wrong tree. Can it exist? Sure, but it seems to have a lot more fragility for various reasons we can all guess at. I don't think your local book-club or whatever community has the same weaknesses.