@sindresorhus posted this tweet today about a thing I remember writing about beforehand too (or at least have thought about it a lot): staleness
Controversial opinion: Stale issues in open source projects are fine. Auto-closing issues based on staleness is an annoyance to users and can drive potential contributors away. There must be a better way of handling issue overload.
@sindresorhus (https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1082145283285250048)
Here's a couple of short thoughts I have on the issue of staleness after maintaining things like brackets and our own projects for years.