I suppose that's debatable but the point is the site is heavily moderated, something the owners can manage without volunteers for now because it doesn't appeal to the mainstream. I think your post is interesting and should have stayed, for what it's worth. I think it's a topic worth discussing but alas, many people just thought you were a bot as well. It really highlights the state of things.
feedback:
- I want to repeat just the word, lots of times, without waiting, so a "rapid repeat" button would be nice.
- Context is good, but the player keeps going, well beyond the initial useful section. My attention span struggles with this.
- I want it for Chinese!!! I would pay for this.
You're looking at the wrong metrics. The risk of using a solo-dev product is them losing interest and stopping support (or as someone else pointed out, not being able to deliver the required level of support).
Both types of products also have a chance of being bought for cheap when they are failing, and at least kept alive on life support.
I don't use autoformat, because it gets things wrong constantly. E.g. taking two similar lines and wrapping one but not the other, because of 1 character length difference. Instead I explicitly line my code out by hand to emphasize structure.
I also hate 90% of default linter rules because they are pointless busywork designed to catch noob mistakes.
These tools keep devs stuck in local maxima of mediocrity. It's like writing prose with a thesaurus on, and accepting every single suggestion blindly.
I coded for 20 years without them, why would I need them now? If you can't even fathom coding without these crutches, and think this is somehow equivalent to coding in a bare notepad, you are proving my point.
