> it's nice to know when I'm getting reachouts on product feedback directly who is touching base. Linked-in is great for that.
It’s unclear if you are trying to be ironic here or serious, but in case you are being serious: this kind of language alienates a lot of technical people and reads like a parody. “Reach out” and “touch base” are salesperson lingo clichés that make people cringe, and using “reachouts” as a noun doubles down on that. Nobody here thinks LinkedIn is an appropriate venue for technical feedback (many people can’t stand it at all), and it’s LinkedIn, not Linked-in. I apologise if this comes across as snarky but if you want genuine communication with technical people, talking like a salesperson cliché undermines your goals. What you communicated with this announcement was “Heroku is in maintenance mode, run by non-technical people”. Your comments here are reinforcing that. If you want to connect with technical people, you have to lay off the salesperson lingo and talk like a normal person not InMail spam.
It’s unclear if you are trying to be ironic here or serious, but in case you are being serious: this kind of language alienates a lot of technical people and reads like a parody. “Reach out” and “touch base” are salesperson lingo clichés that make people cringe, and using “reachouts” as a noun doubles down on that. Nobody here thinks LinkedIn is an appropriate venue for technical feedback (many people can’t stand it at all), and it’s LinkedIn, not Linked-in. I apologise if this comes across as snarky but if you want genuine communication with technical people, talking like a salesperson cliché undermines your goals. What you communicated with this announcement was “Heroku is in maintenance mode, run by non-technical people”. Your comments here are reinforcing that. If you want to connect with technical people, you have to lay off the salesperson lingo and talk like a normal person not InMail spam.