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I'm delighted that so many people are getting value in difftastic, but there has been a significant increase in new issues recently! Hopefully this is a temporary bump from HN. It's a genuine risk from creating a generic tool: if 1% of devs use it, that's a huge userbase.

Twitter users are younger, more left-leaning, and more educated, than the US median: https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-users/ Interesting to see that despite its size, the userbase isn't entirely representative in some areas (although the article mentions it's pretty similar in others).

The challenges of being a FOSS maintainer: https://feaneron.com/2019/03/28/on-being-a-free-software-maintainer/ I can relate. Working on projects with a small userbase that target other devs definitely helps. I'd be reluctant to maintain a popular consumer app.