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> That the medium or style he choses to express himself doesn't work well for you

It doesn't work well for thousands of people, which is why there are always complaints.

You can say the exact same things about his post asking them to fix the controller. Oh "the entitlement" and "that's his problem, not the controller manufacturers". We're asking him to fix his posts. He's asking them to fix the controller.

When something is suboptimal, you're well within your rights to complain about it. Posting long rants as Twitter threads is suboptimal for the consumers of said threads, just as a controller you can't turn off is suboptimal for the consumer of the controller.

Same same and fair game.



> "He's asking them to fix the controller."

No he isn't, he's fixing it himself.

> "When something is suboptimal, you're well within your rights to complain about it."

You can complain about it on your own Twitter. Here, it's explicitly against the HN guidelines: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


I'd rather read a twitter thread than a medium or substack post. It's not suboptimal for all of the consumers of their tweets.


Foone doesn't submit his threads here and he doesn't charge for them.

You're not an intended consumer.


generally speaking coming out hot with a "whatever you're doing is wrong and you need to do it the way I want you to do it" is always a hard sell - regardless of how valid your original argument may be




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