I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I've commented on the issue on Github too, but to expand on my thoughts:
YAGNI.
This feature would be trying to do something in the product that is best left to another service. We don't need to add a feature to change the colour temperature of your monitor either. We could but that's already Somebody Else's Problem. Why add fragility like this?
People would be put off. If I visit someone's profile because they wrote something I liked, and it either appeared like they hadn't written anything for months or hadn't written anything at all, I'd be a lot less likely to follow them. So when they came back from this "vacation", I'd miss out.
Transparency. On visiting someone's profile, whatever version of the feature we went with would have to be explained to the visitor in a clear and concise manner. Look at us, we can't explain it very well to each other.
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I've commented on the issue on Github too, but to expand on my thoughts:
YAGNI.
This feature would be trying to do something in the product that is best left to another service. We don't need to add a feature to change the colour temperature of your monitor either. We could but that's already Somebody Else's Problem. Why add fragility like this?
People would be put off. If I visit someone's profile because they wrote something I liked, and it either appeared like they hadn't written anything for months or hadn't written anything at all, I'd be a lot less likely to follow them. So when they came back from this "vacation", I'd miss out.
Transparency. On visiting someone's profile, whatever version of the feature we went with would have to be explained to the visitor in a clear and concise manner. Look at us, we can't explain it very well to each other.