alt Hacker NewsI also like how his first response to a reply to the announcement (and multiple others) was "who do you speak for?" while simultaneously framing a discussion with a single person, in private, as a good faith effort to hear from the community with the implicit assumption that that one person spoke for the community.
Endeavors that make decisions based on what will please the loudest people in the near term normally run into the ground pretty quickly. There was never any obligation to obtain the approval of "the community", whatever that is.
Nothing about the name change prevented existing users from continuing to use the software just as they had been doing, and many of them said they agreed with the decision.
I honestly only ever hear about this drama on HN, it's a non-issue anywhere else we get attention.