Saturday, August 09, 2025

Anti Stalebot

I remember lazyweb, and was looking for a stream of inspiration.
I found a more modern version in https://github.com/h5bp/lazyweb-requests

For some stupid reason, they switched on Stalebot. This nuked the utility of the project by stifling conversation and ideas. Then they archives the project, closing off all conversation entirely.

It is as though they did not understand the point of the very thing they created.

Talking this through with my partner; she hit on the idea of a summarisation tool that just vibe codes the idea as a last gasp, whenever Stalebot comments.

Some things will be terrible, with useless input. But for the good ideas in the world that are about to die because some maintainer didn't think about how people work or how to have an attention span more than a few weeks wide, it would have the possibility to refresh a project or provide fertile ground for a fork.


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