You people are mad about the wrong things.
There is nothing in that 5 year old thread that goes beyond standard issue friction between someone who created something and someone who wants to administrate something.
There is stuff to be mad about, but that does not include a dev five years ago telling the memeOS "hey can you maybe please don't do this. I am worries that it will cause more work for me if you do that"
I'm not mad about anything, but I wouldn't need your permission to be so.
I've learned from this thread that I don't want to use HA in the future.
Who said that you would have?
And, if you're being honest, you're doing it for that reason too!
Simply another rehearsal of the same angry entitled online mob play. But that doesn't mean that we'd have to permanently stay in character
I mean I can see the "I think your judgement is bad" could be seen as a personal insult (even though it is genuinely meant as an assessment of reality), but "multiple"?
The sentence structure implied that I would have personally insulted this HN user and did so multiple times.
That is not true though.
What you did probably sense instead is more of a general abrasiveness-field. That was intentional (and obvious, for that matter).
It was (and is) a never-ending drama faucet, because most people are in it for the identity and not for the utility. Or rather the utility primarily is the identity granted by using it.