tl;dr Kite altered the Atom minimap plug-in 3 months ago to inject Kite promotions and links[0]. Users upset. Kite didn’t care and argues users are happy and ma

tl;dr Kite altered the Atom minimap plug-in 3 months ago to inject Kite promotions and links[0]. Users upset. Kite didn’t care and argues users are happy and many/most “find it useful”. This is how to destroy your credibility as a maker of tools for developers. Lesson Kite should have learned? Do not fuck with [open source] developer tools, especially things people think are core features. Plenty of arguments in the comments about how it should be its own Kite plugin and people would install it if they wanted it. Instead, Kite injected it into a plugin with 3.5M users. Then they did it to the autocomplete plugin for Python. Then they say it’s only V1, they’ll iterate and improve it, so don’t be mad, okay? [0]: The commit message actually says “implement Kite promotion”. Pure don’t-give-a-shit.