because people don't want to spend the time supporting them?
i'm too lazy for a long answer. the short answer would be that everyone has its own motivation but it would be possible (would take a long time though) to list all the stereotyped behaviours from the psycho developer and his 100% pure geek patches that would not obviously mean a lot to be shared, to the "normal" user too shy to post/announce anything on the main list but has his "secret pd life" somewhere on a some sites/forums (and we should not forget to mention the patcher who will never release his absolute holy grail killing tool he's working on for 4 years now ... good luck buddy you will succeed ... eventually)
Now the good question would be, what if there would be a way to close the content of a patch ? would there be more performance patches shared ? well ... i'm afraid yes.
There are simply people who just don't want to share their work, researches, tools ... though they may just copy paste from what a few others are ok to share. It's been like this for ages, it's like this for a lot of creation fields.
Sure it's disappointing, but well ... can't help i guess and it will not avoid me to sleep tonight.
what are yall's thoughts on it?
hip hop and you don't stop.
Frank (aka DJ Frank "Funky Town" Barknecht) and I are working on a pd/Gem flyer that will announce shortly a friendly pd demo online contest that will last from mid august till end of september. More infos soon.
I think it will be a good benchmark for the pd patcher community, how much patches will we receive ? 2 ? 1000 ?