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What a lovely, civil exchange. (I hope that the tone on the socials at the time was just as civil). Developer plants an easter egg. It was a good one ... and i
by martypitt 2y ago
What a lovely, civil exchange. (I hope that the tone on the socials at the time was just as civil).
Developer plants an easter egg. It was a good one ... and it was a reasonable assumption it wasn't gonna break anything. Several people have a good chuckle. Someone gets affected negatively by it, so the developer says, "fair play, that wasn't the intent, let's remove it". Everyone hugs it out and moves on.
I have no idea if this was the full story, or if his Twitter was aflame with negativity, but I imagine if this happened today, the tone would be much more combative than the exchange on the Stack Overflow page (eg: this HN thread, which is full of 'Easter Eggs Bad! Bugs!') -- which is a real shame.
If humour be the bugs of life, play on.
- mjmsmith 2y agoStack Exchange comments are where humor goes to die^H^H^Hbe moved to chat.
- klez 2y agoConsider that SE comments are heavily moderated. Unfortunately if you read the chat linked in the comments (which got moved from the comments section) it's everything but fun and games. Also apparently the developer who suggested the feature had to set their twitter to private because he was getting bashed for this.
- bradley13 2y agoThat's a shame, but (sadly) not unexpected. Humorous people who take themselves far too seriously. The negativity was explained decades ago by the "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory". Sadly, things have not improved.