A while back, I tweeted about how cool it was to have a software patch I submitted be accepted.

You know what’s cooler than that?

Realizing that someone is actually using a plugin I wrote.

I mean, working with open source, when you put something like that out there, it’s with the idea that people will use it. But having the idea is a lot different from the realization that someone you’ve never met half way around the world found something you did to be useful.

Edited to add: I just realized that it might not be obvious from the link, but I’m talking about the db_free_solr plugin.