Gregory's Server@blacklight I highly disagree on the statement "you do something useful -> bear the obligation of making it X". Its a giant source of burnouts in open source.
No, you did something and decided to make it public in the way you like it - awesome! You love sourcehut interface and a mailining list as the way of communicating - awesome, that's your project and your decisions.
@fedor @blacklight
I think in many cases there's a mismatch in 'expectations management' that causes burnout in maintainers. Once a project grows in size and popularity the dynamics change to a large extent. And if the maintainers don't deal with that they'll see the burden and the expectations grow and grow.
Entitlement may be false entitlement in their eyes, but users on the other hand also 'invest' by using the software. In part it is communication mismatches that cause things to go awry.