muesliIf you, your project or your team depends on an open source project, don’t hesitate to mail its creators and tell them that you do!
You have no idea how useful such endorsements are when maintainers want to justify their time commitments!
Also, as a maintainer you're used to hearing your project being criticized all the time, because people usually only take the time to mail you when they're facing a problem they can't solve.
Sometimes, just sometimes, someone will send you a short, sweet mail saying "Hey, I'm using this and it's great. Thank you for making this!".
Be that kind of positivity in life! ❤️
Naeva@fribbledom hey so I like to send fanmail but I worry about cluttering peoples inboxes/wasting their attention during "work time"
Any suggestions as far as subject lines to to make it clear what the email contains?
Don't sweat it too much, really! These mails are a motivational boost that easily makes up for the time lost in reading them 😄
Mention the project name, so something like 'Thank you for making $project!" definitely works.