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> widely Bullshit. Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website, but your feedback is rubbish for some developer providing a proof-of-concept

> widely Bullshit. Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website, but your feedback is rubbish for some developer providing a proof-of-concept. mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment because it didn't pressure the dev, while giving the dev a heads up _if_ they are interested and happen to read HN. Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser (3.35%) and is trending to be less popular than Opera (2.86%) and Samsung Internet (2.6%). Obviously HN selects for abnormal users: I actually like mckirk's comment because it is a beautiful reminder that there are niche users with interesting configurations and maybe I should have a look at that plugin. Nobody wants to be an entitled open source user.

lukan 2y ago
"Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website" Svader is for making consumer facing websites. At least potentially. "mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment" And was still downvoted for it. Hence my reaction. "Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser" And I use dark reader on firefox as well as on chrome.
- robocat 2y ago
  > downvoted Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances", 2. HN site norms are enforced by downvotes - downvoting is correct by definition Plus another important guideline is "Please don't comment about the voting on comments". I'm trying to help you moderate yourself - of course the next escalation is for this inane subthread (including my comments) to be flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (edited: added more details)
  - lukan 2y ago
    "Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances"" We disagree on "tangential annoyances". And that's it from my side.
  - mckirk 2y ago
    You might as well quote the rule in full, if you are going to throw the guidelines around. > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. I think this makes it pretty clear that this guideline wasn't talking about people trying to provide helpful feedback for a developer, letting them know about a strange edge-case (i.e., why should an extension injecting CSS even mess with WebGL content?) that they might want to look into.
Andoryuuta 2y ago
>> widely > > Bullshit. Dark Reader has >9 million total users across browsers as reported by the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Mac app stores [1][2][3][4]. That is definitely a very small percentage of total web browser users - with some estimates putting chrome users at 3.2 billion(!)[5], but 9 million users isn't something to scoff at either. FWIW - I completely agree that mckirk's comment was a great passing "fyi" that doesn't put pressure on the dev. I also think it relevant to the original post (not some tangential common complaint, nor against the HN guidelines). [1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoojfekhnkhdbieeh?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb... [2]: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reader/ifoakfbpdcdoeenechcleahebpibofpc https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reade... [3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/ [4]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id1438243180 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id14382... [5]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-internet-users-by-browser/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-interne...

lukan 2y ago

"Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website" Svader is for making consumer facing websites. At least potentially. "mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment" And was still downvoted for it. Hence my reaction. "Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser" And I use dark reader on firefox as well as on chrome.

robocat 2y ago
> downvoted Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances", 2. HN site norms are enforced by downvotes - downvoting is correct by definition Plus another important guideline is "Please don't comment about the voting on comments". I'm trying to help you moderate yourself - of course the next escalation is for this inane subthread (including my comments) to be flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (edited: added more details)
- lukan 2y ago
  "Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances"" We disagree on "tangential annoyances". And that's it from my side.
- mckirk 2y ago
  You might as well quote the rule in full, if you are going to throw the guidelines around. > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. I think this makes it pretty clear that this guideline wasn't talking about people trying to provide helpful feedback for a developer, letting them know about a strange edge-case (i.e., why should an extension injecting CSS even mess with WebGL content?) that they might want to look into.

Andoryuuta 2y ago

>> widely > > Bullshit. Dark Reader has >9 million total users across browsers as reported by the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Mac app stores [1][2][3][4]. That is definitely a very small percentage of total web browser users - with some estimates putting chrome users at 3.2 billion(!)[5], but 9 million users isn't something to scoff at either. FWIW - I completely agree that mckirk's comment was a great passing "fyi" that doesn't put pressure on the dev. I also think it relevant to the original post (not some tangential common complaint, nor against the HN guidelines). [1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoojfekhnkhdbieeh?pli=1 https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb... [2]: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reader/ifoakfbpdcdoeenechcleahebpibofpc https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reade... [3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/ [4]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id1438243180 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id14382... [5]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-internet-users-by-browser/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-interne...