daniel:// stenberg://Do people not care about Hacktoberfest anymore? I see very few mentions about it in my circles. I personally never cared much.
Forst@bagder I lost interest after the incident with thousands of lazy pull requests when some influencer/youtuber made a video about it.
Lord Tom Klopf of CZ 
@bagder I prefer my hacking and Oktoberfest in separate mental buckets (one full of beer and not very mental)
Scott Galloway@bagder No longer necessary, companies get free code from AI instead of paying a pittance to idiots (can you tell I'm not a fan?)
🪨@bagder I think it was good around 2017-2018, when there were not too many projects actively participating and GitHub wasn't the giant it currently is, but it quickly became overcrowded with people farming PRs with no real value just to get the t-shirts, causing maintainers to spend more time triaging than being actually helped by it. That's why now, the only reward is a digital badge nobody cares about.
Matt Hall
MTRNord@bagder Last few times it seems to have been abused a lot for spam (aka bogus readme.md updates adding just newlines or reordering it). I guess that made plenty of people unhappy now?
kernel brainrot enthusiast@bagder I enjoyed the t-shirts but like someone else said, after it became pretty obvious that a *ton* of people were abusing the system for free stuff and not actually being helpful, I pretty much lost all interest in participating since it was just a burden on project maintainers. was nice to have some external motivation to contribute to projects though.
lots of PR spam for free tshirts
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Gina Häußge@bagder Thankfully apparently not ever since they switched to projects having to opt *in* a couple years ago. The PR spam during this time before that rule change sucked hard.
Ben Hardill@bagder can you imagine having to review all the AI generated pull requests this year...
Brandon Mitchell@bagder I'm keeping my streak alive, but much less public about it after all the spammers hit in previous years. I also only participate on my own projects to avoid hitting maintainers with an added workload.
miki@bagder Hacktoberfest in the age of AI... maybe it's a good thing people don't care any more?
And I say this as somebody who uses AI for coding and is not that opposed to it in general.
Christen Lofland@bagder It was better when fewer people knew or cared about it. I think it really works best to get people new to open source contributions into it. These days I contribute what I can when I can and that is never based on it being October, but rather when my needs and skills and a project’s needs align briefly.
Maryam Sheikh@bagder I think it's related to them A. requiring projects to opt-in (to avoid the spam that came with Hacktoberfest) and B. no longer giving a free t-shirt (I think it's some weird digital stuff now?)
Max Günther@bagder I already don't have enough time to work on my own projects! 😅 Well, occasional bug fixes for projects I use, but that's basically it.