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Entitlement? That's abusing the term. Users are within their right to ask for features, and within their rights to throw their hands up in the air and say "WTF" when a dev turns around and snaps "Well make it yourself"

After all, go read never said "The is MY rss reader"

it's tagline is "this is an rss reader." rss readers normally don't require single sign on.



Users are well within their rights to do just about anything, including insult the developers mother. The issue isn't what their rights are, the issue is with etiquette.

Politely requesting features from developers you are not paying is not a breach of etiquette. Saying "No." in response to those requests is not a breach of etiquette. Making demands of developers that you are not paying is a breach of etiquette.


The GP was extending a specific instance to open source projects as a whole, and making a statement about common problems with them. My comment was in response to that.

Narrowing my argument to a single specific case is unconstructive. I have no interest in speaking for the author of this software. They should be capable of doing that themselves.




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