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Dear Github developers, I brought some love and hugs for you. And a hot coffee with chocolate. Not everyone hates you today, don’t be upset about toxic posts l

Dear Github developers, I brought some love and hugs for you. And a hot coffee with chocolate. Not everyone hates you today, don’t be upset about toxic posts like this one.

daptaq 5y ago
> Not everyone hates you today, don’t be upset about toxic posts like this one. No, do get upset. You have contributed to the centralization and increasing dependence on a single entity, while piggybacking of the advances that distributed version control have brought about. You have blurred the difference between Git and your service, to the point that people don't know about the former, and routinely abuse it. You have normalized the fundamentally inconvenient "pull request" workflow as the default for a lot of software development (introducing the artificial steps of "forking" and proposing a "pull request"), to such a degree that people now complain when they are confronted with anything else. This is not a one-off issue, and isn't fixed when the site is operational again. You deserve all the criticism, and no not coffee chocolate.
- EugeneOZ 5y ago
  One day you will wonder how much you were upset about not so critical things. The lifespan of our civilization is just a glimpse. Do you really think your toxic comment will make it brighter for a moment? Look at this image: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-astronomers-assemble-wide-view-of-the-evolving-universe https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-astronomers...
  - raro11 5y ago
    Did you think yours would?
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y ago
  Propose a better solution then. If it's inconvenient enough that people prefer centralized solutions, is it really better?
activitypea 5y ago
Imagine letting toxic HN comments get to you lmao
- Stampo00 5y ago
  By labeling them toxic, it implies the existence of non-toxic HN comments. Fringe researchers have been searching for years, but mainstream scientists regard non-toxic HN comments as a form of cryptid.
  - activitypea 5y ago
    I assume you're exaggerating as a joke, but I don't think we should talk about HN like that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I've learned to shrug and scroll past the unconstructive stuff, and still manage to learn a lot from other folks in the comment section.

Dear Github developers, I brought some love and hugs for you. And a hot coffee with chocolate. Not everyone hates you today, don’t be upset about toxic posts like this one.

daptaq 5y ago

> Not everyone hates you today, don’t be upset about toxic posts like this one. No, do get upset. You have contributed to the centralization and increasing dependence on a single entity, while piggybacking of the advances that distributed version control have brought about. You have blurred the difference between Git and your service, to the point that people don't know about the former, and routinely abuse it. You have normalized the fundamentally inconvenient "pull request" workflow as the default for a lot of software development (introducing the artificial steps of "forking" and proposing a "pull request"), to such a degree that people now complain when they are confronted with anything else. This is not a one-off issue, and isn't fixed when the site is operational again. You deserve all the criticism, and no not coffee chocolate.

EugeneOZ 5y ago
One day you will wonder how much you were upset about not so critical things. The lifespan of our civilization is just a glimpse. Do you really think your toxic comment will make it brighter for a moment? Look at this image: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-astronomers-assemble-wide-view-of-the-evolving-universe https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/hubble-astronomers...
- raro11 5y ago
  Did you think yours would?
isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y ago
Propose a better solution then. If it's inconvenient enough that people prefer centralized solutions, is it really better?

activitypea 5y ago

Imagine letting toxic HN comments get to you lmao

Stampo00 5y ago
By labeling them toxic, it implies the existence of non-toxic HN comments. Fringe researchers have been searching for years, but mainstream scientists regard non-toxic HN comments as a form of cryptid.
- activitypea 5y ago
  I assume you're exaggerating as a joke, but I don't think we should talk about HN like that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I've learned to shrug and scroll past the unconstructive stuff, and still manage to learn a lot from other folks in the comment section.