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tomhow • yesterday at 7:58 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> I feel no small amount of satisfaction and schadenfreude

Please don't fulminate or sneer (or whatever else this is) on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something much better than this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


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frmersdog • yesterday at 10:42 PM

Respectfully, how am I supposed to feel and respond to a public call-out by a mod like this? (Over a -2, unflagged comment? Now I'm curious what nerve I hit.)

And to expound, in my defense: as a longtime Android device user, I recall often feeling stigmatized by the app developer community's treatment of things outside the Apple ecosystem as second-class. Arc's overly-enthusiastic media coverage, barely disclaiming or discounting that it was initially MacOS exclusive, reminded me of the worst of that from the mid-2010s. "Here is a product that is going to change the world, and give everyone superpowers, also you can't use it. :)"

I'd thought we'd left that behind.

So if this approach turned out to be a misstep that helped lead to the product's demise (alongside, bafflingly, and perhaps ultimately a bullet-dodge, the mere fact that a local browser can be sunset and locked at all), I'm not allowed to give my feelings on that? Is there really no productive conversation to be had about how a failed product rubbed potential users the wrong way?

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