Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years.The theme cropped up repeatedly during 2025's State Of Open Conference, with speakers from tech giants and volunteer maintainers laying out the challenges. Much of the open source ecosystem relies on volunteers putting in too many hours for too little support and the cracks are growing.
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17 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 17 Feb
Sounds like everyone at SOO came together because they needed to cry.
If you're maintaining a software, and you're "burned out", just leave. Get a real job.
Eventually many people will fork your product and most of them will fuck up. But, its still a better outcome than having someone at the helm that doesn't want to be there.
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