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Hm; and yes, and no... on the other hand, I've also had, literally, and for which I'm super grateful, they mean A LOT:
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295453 - my all time favourite comment that I don't stop mentioning when telling the story of my project, and that always makes my heart go warm
"Just wanted to give you a thumbs up!" 'issue' - no strings attached, no "but" https://github.com/akavel/up/issues/14 - plus some follow-ups from other wonderful people...
A person came back and said they use and like my tool so much they decided in act of gratitude to give me not one but three logo sketches that I could choose from; then had enough patience to bear my pickiness until I fortunately finally came back to senses and took the first one of them which was IMO the best one from the beginning. https://github.com/akavel/up/issues/48
I still would say "yes, and no..." by which I mean, I'm still tired of this project enough that I can't muster strength to get back to it... sure, there were bug reports, and honestly, I understand and appreciate... I would open them too, and I treat them with respect... as I feel treated too (though also I have the fortune to be able to ignore or shut down occasional stupidity or demands). Yet I am still tired and drained of energy for now for this project. I sometimes muster a bit of it and improve some small parts. Sometimes. So, as much as random demands can be part of it, and don't make things easier, especially for some creators; as much as this, I think there must be also other things at play.
About six months ago, I came across a Github repository which had backported Chromium to earlier versions of OS X. https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy. I was delighted! It had some major bugs, but I opened Github issues for them, and one by one, they've been fixed. (In a couple of cases, I helped track down the offending code, but the original developer has done the vast majority of the work.)
I have definitely opened more issues on this repository than any other user. I just opened two more a couple of hours ago. I was going to open a third, but I stopped because I felt really crappy with myself. He's already done all of this work... but he's never asked me to stop, and if it was my project, I'd rather know that these problems existed. Isn't that better?
Disabling issues is possible. Telegram's official Android client repository disabled issues a few years ago. [2]
[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-gith...
[2] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram
I couldn't agree more. If I ever decided to make any of my work public, it would be under "Good luck with that" license (https://github.com/me-shaon/GLWTPL)
I feel like more and more developers are opting for the second form. I'm reminded of litestream (https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream) for example that is closed to contribution