Ahh yes TMI perhaps for some
I can't speak for hacker but I think maybe he was asking the question as he is himself a developer and developers I would guess dislike the fact that some folks will complain about a piece of software but not actually let the author know about it so they can consider adding the support or whatever. It sounds like you did contact the developers though so hopefully something good will come out of that.
Good luck with that and definitely good luck with your efforts to have a child.