I think lack of goodwill plays into this, too. A lot of smaller sites can get away with stuff like “OK guys, the servers aren’t free, so we need to run ads.” and then have people super thrilled with them if there’s an option to limit or disable ads for donors.
On reddit, I think the attitude would basically be “get fucked, spez!”
Ha, fair enough. It is an admirable sentiment either way.
Torn between up voting the sentiment and down voting politics - I really don’t think this counts as a tech endeavor.
Two of my favorites are one-pot chicken riggies and baked ziti
Ah, yep, def when they called it Firefox.
Well, sure. Even Russia still has elections.
This was essentially my same reaction to that comment. All I can think is that they imagined that this post said something like “Firefox bad because DEI CEO!” and reacted without actually reading the post.
Which … I mean, given the world we currently live in, is probably being said somewhere. But on this post, it’s a HECK of a non-sequitur.
basically when it was first released
Ah, back in the Mozilla Phoenix days? Or shortly after the Firebird->Firefox rename?
I found this article. My takeaways were: