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There IS currently a pro-Firefox sentiment on HN. But like most things here, it operates on a pendulum. * Sentiment was sharply NEGATIVE not so long ago... wh
by StevePerkins 7y ago
There IS currently a pro-Firefox sentiment on HN. But like most things here, it operates on a pendulum.
* Sentiment was sharply NEGATIVE not so long ago... when Firefox cut off support for the legacy plugin ecosystem.
* Sentiment was POSITIVE not so long before that... when Quantum shipped. Improving performance, and delighting the Rust crowd.
* Sentiment was NEGATIVE not so long before that... as Mozilla was too distracted by mobile OS misadventures, and Firefox's performance had become awful relative to its competitors.
* Sentiment was POSITIVE not so long before that... as Mozilla was the only voice somewhat pushing against DRM in HTML5 standards.
And so on.
At any rate, I don't think you're being downvoted due to a pro-Firefox brigage. I think you're being downvoted because you are posting in an immature "Reddit" style, without contributing much of interest to the discusion, and that style generally does not fare well here.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoIn this particular instance? Maybe. But I think you give HN far too much credit if you think it is really any better than reddit.
- _emacsomancer_ 7y agoHN is pretty different from Reddit at least, at least taking Reddit as a whole (e.g. r/lisp may be different). Whether it's better or not I suppose depends on one's point of view.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoNo, it isn't. It just, in typical techy fashion, likes to think it is better than the general population. This place is basically just /r/svwebdev.
- _emacsomancer_ 7y agoI'll concede there are certain commenters on HN who put me in mind of the worse parts of Reddit.