I simply could no longer provide the effort (mental or time-wise) that the role demanded, and thus I was not performing my duties to an acceptable degree, facing severe burnout, and risks to my mental health.

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We've proven that FLOSS works, and is in demand.

If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout", I've come across two more in the past week alone:

* Filebrowser (Mar 2026): https://hacdias.com/2026/03/11/filebrowser/

* axum-login / tower-sessions (last week): https://github.com/maxcountryman/axum-login/discussions/330

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HumblyTossed 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

FLOSS works because when maintainers need to leave the project doesn’t die.

	▲	mvanbaak a day ago \| parent [-]
		This is more common in FLOSS then in corporate/closed source projects.

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hnarn 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout"

So your success criteria for ”FLOSS works” is that zero people involved in it experience stress related issues?

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squigz 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Do people doing non-FLOSS work not also sometimes face severe burnout?

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ThrowawayTestr 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes but those people aren't doing it as a hobby.

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hnarn 2 days ago | parent [-]

What’s your point, or are you just engaging in a conversation while completely ignoring the context?

	▲	ThrowawayTestr a day ago \| parent [-]
		Generally you wouldn't expect someone working on a hobby for free to experience burnout.