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Former Firefox dev for both desktop and Android here: I can definitely confirm that being constantly shit on wore me down a lot.
by dblohm7 3y ago
Former Firefox dev for both desktop and Android here: I can definitely confirm that being constantly shit on wore me down a lot.
- dandanua 3y agoHaters gonna hate
- wolverine876 3y agoSorry. You did good things for everyone and deserve much better, but I hope you give yourself the recognition. Thanks for everything. HN should have an annual Appreciation Day, with no enshittification of threads.
- emestifs 3y agoThank you and everyone else working on the Firefox browser and adjacent projects for your hard work. Don't let the noise of the internet lessen what you and the team have done and continue to do.
- MiddleEndian 3y agoGotta say, I fucking love Firefox. Be proud of your work.
- dblohm7 3y agoI am, and thank you!
- coldpie 3y agoI'm sorry that happened. I wish there was some way to solve the "one jerk outweighs a thousand happy users" problem. I still vividly remember one guy being an asshole about my work on the Wine bug tracker a decade ago, regardless of how many happy users I know there were.
- wolverine876 3y ago> I wish there was some way to solve the "one jerk outweighs a thousand happy users" problem. We could downvote all that stuff to oblivion. Instead, comments like it are voted to the top comment on almost every page.
- pcwalton 3y agoIt's human nature, unfortunately. Reality television producers have known this for ages: the episodes that feature people who come off as irredeemable jerks always garner the highest ratings.
- wolverine876 3y ago> It's human nature, unfortunately. If that ever really meant something, it has been so overused in the last few years that it's impossible to pick out any needles of serious use from the general default trendy grain silos of despair. I'm not trying to get all of humanity to give up sex. I believe we can do better, here on HN, in this one regard. I am that insanely optimistic!
- account42 3y agoOr instead Mozilla could actually listen to user feedback. People don't "shit" on Firefox for no reason.
- dblohm7 3y agoYeah, but shitting on devs for stuff they have nothing to do with is just a lousy thing to do.
- bloopernova 3y agoI am very thankful for Firefox. It keeps the web sane for me, and I very much appreciate everyone who contributed to it. Thank you for your work!