I disagree with everything

That’s alright. You’re not forced any way to accept my opinion. And, the same applies to me as well.

but let’s focus on the quote here. It’s not that simple! I might use the software, and I would be interested in a new release if it had something exciting. But a lot of releases do not.

Each of us have our own use case that may not align all the time. For example, I’m quite interested in literally every release of Nextcloud, Firefox,Flatpak, Docker, Invidious, Redlib and Nvidia (partially) open source driver, based on my own use case. I might not have the same level of interest in other OSS products.

Level of “Interest in a software” is a subjective matter.

The very fact that “software X version Y released!” is posted here signals to me that there’s something special that you are reacting to.

The fact that an open source software, I’m interested in, is getting regular updates, and not getting abandoned is quite special to me.

It’s clear to me that you are just release dumping here though

Again, Thanks for your opinion.

It contributes to the noise of the community, in my personal opinion.

Just to be clear, unless there is a specific rule enforced in this forum, your opinion and my opinion are equally valid.

(And in my experience, lots of people agree.)

You don’t need to drag other in, just to prove your argument. Your own opinion should be good enough.