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It is still a contribution, which is what the title is. It did not say "my feature implementation in Markdown". A good feature suggestion which is thoughtful an
by redditor98654 4y ago
It is still a contribution, which is what the title is. It did not say "my feature implementation in Markdown". A good feature suggestion which is thoughtful and genuinely improves a product not just for that one user but for everyone is a great contribution.
- remram 4y agoThe exact phrasing: > That’s my doing. Come on now.
- actuallyalys 4y agoI interpreted it as a joke, but I'm familiar with the author and hyperbole doesn't always translate, so I can see why it rubbed people the wrong way.
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- kergonath 4y agoThere is even worse than that. He also wrote: > I Which clearly means that he takes full credit for the whole Markdown implementation. What a scandal!
- klez 4y agoRight. That's why I can claim that my biggest contribution to Firefox is suggesting indicating the estimated reading time at the top of an article in reader mode. I'm the one who made the feature request [0]. It took some time, but they finally implemented it and I felt (and still feel) very good about it :) [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265304 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265304
- capableweb 4y agoI think the claim "that's my biggest contribution to X" is fine, if you feel like that was what you think is the biggest contribution you made to X. Where it starts to feel wrong, would be if you somehow started claiming "I suggested it first. It's because of me it's there. You're welcome", when you merely suggested the feature, not implemented or drove it to be implemented.