Maintaining a project on microsoft/azure github seems as bad as maintaining a profile on X. Reputational damage for maintaining a github repo will hopefully catch up to reality soon.
It's bonkers that we let the free/open source community get so comprehensively captured by closed source, inhumane corporate tech.
If your community on there doesn't have an exit plan, it might be worth applying some pressure !
I spend a lot of effort on noise reduction. Turning off alerts, reducing the size of (especially redundant) messages I don't really need to see—that kind of stuff.
It's REALLY disruptive when software I use decides to get rid of those filters. Like not even just turning the noise back on, but fully removing my ability to even filter things.
I regularly mourn the wonderful period of time when software worked for us. (This *is* open source, but maintaining a fork is more wo…