I'm not sure if it's "become" rare or rarer. But in a way Github, npm, or maybe it was just ourselves in general... but we seem to have promoted the idea of "build it and they will come" to an unrealistic level.
While interested people will come, I think it is rare that a distant and complete stranger will suddenly appear and not only share your same interests but also with the same level of compromise. And given that some projects now seem to suffer sudden popularity growths as flavour of the month -or week-, it would also be rare that such a person or persons would appear before that happens and the pressure suddenly increases.
While interested people will come, I think it is rare that a distant and complete stranger will suddenly appear and not only share your same interests but also with the same level of compromise. And given that some projects now seem to suffer sudden popularity growths as flavour of the month -or week-, it would also be rare that such a person or persons would appear before that happens and the pressure suddenly increases.