What’s bothersome about that is that the dev didn’t just say that they didn’t want to work on it, they closed it. I completely understand if the dev doesn’t want to work on it personally, but closing it gives one the feeling that future discussion on the topic is not wanted – not to mention that it also greatly reduces its visibility.

This is the part where you should recognize that its not a feature they want on lemmy. It doesn’t need “more visability”, it’s their project, and they get to choose what they want to do with it. We just use it as a byproduct of it being free and open.

It’s not something I would care about or ever use. It comes with significant unresolved problems already pointed out, and it mostly just seems like you want it for reasons of idle curiosity or paranoia.

Most importantly, if a lemmy dev already said no, and you aren’t willing to do the work, then it’s dead, and opening a thread about it isn’t a helpful way of fixing that.

scaled ranking is gonna be a gamechanger, I don’t subscribe to a few communities just because they will blow out my other ones