Are they? I've read them and they mostly just made me feel like shit.

The amount of drive-by hate being thrown at project maintainers of an open source project is depressing.

The comments are definitely not worth reading. It’s a very sad thread, you literally had to go through all of them to find one that wasn’t about hate and stating some facts about the issues of the code.

The bread shop analogy made my year

Counterpoint: don't read the comments

People are saying they detect a lot of "hate" in these comments which I don't see or agree with at all. People clearly have negative opinions about this and they're expressing them rather openly but to confuse this with actual "personal hate" seems like an equally overcharged response.

When you do anything publicly, even something that's considered a 'public good' like contributing to open source, you are opening yourself to the full tide of humanity for better or for worse. The overwhelming majority of the time it's for the better, occasionally, and in response to unpopular decisions, it's for worse.

What you shouldn't do is take any of this personally. It's open source. You have permission to take a break, you have permission to directly ignore issues and users, you have permission to do whatever makes _you_ happy.

If your goal is to receive unremitting love and adoration from a crowd of strangers then you're going to be bitterly disappointed... no matter how you occupy yourself.