While I respect the decision the dude made, anyone should always be able to back out of an open source project, I also absolutely do not understand the reasoning.

The markdown challenge was in no way a ranking of how good or bad Lemmy apps are. It just said, “hey look, this type of formatting isn’t shown correctly in some apps”.

How did the dev even deal with other bug reports? If other stuff didn’t work correctly, how was that then not a “bad reputation” for him? I am totally confused by this.