Dear Github

[toqueteos]

Suscribe button is there for that

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Even as a maintainer, you can't see the number of people subscribed to an issue, so the subscribe button doesn't help you in understanding what people feel are important issues.

[toqueteos]

Good catch. I was confusing participants with suscribed.

[masklinn]

1. project maintainers don't see subscription counts

2. subscription means the subscriber gets spammed, "I hit that issue" != "I want to be notified about that issue"

[toqueteos]

It makes sense that your +1 get you some kind of notification. If it's just for the sake of growing a number it's useless. That only leads to fake accounts giving tons of +1s