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The thing is, HN is a technical audience, not an average person in this regard.

People here know the difference or are easily able to understand it if they haven't been confronted with it.

Signal claims to be a private, not anynomous, chat application.

Theirt defaults are set so they can get mass market addoption, whilst beeing a big step up in privacy compared to the usual players in the space (like whatsapp and telegram). You simply won't be able to get the average user on apps that make use more complicated and apps like simplex doe exactly that.

If you want Signal to be more secure, you can circumvent this attack vector by disableing auto downloads for media.

I'm not saying Signal is perfect, there has been a bunch to critisize over the years.

But why argue about use cases they never claimed to solve?

That doesn't sound future proof.

People leave projects/companies, people forget.

Code comments are also far from good. They have the same issue as duplicatet code. Comment and code age indiviually. Now you have to maintain both and it's for them to diverge.

Git commits are a snapshot of the codebase. Commit messages in them are pinned to a code version. Comments in commit messages are therefore always tied to the right version of code.

GnuCash 5.9 2 years ago

There is a middleground. Of course, change for the sake of change sucks, you just have to relearn for no benefit.

But change for the sake of implementing m New features and having a well thought out redesign after collecting issues over a decade or so makes software more accessible and allows you to streamline workflows where new features just got tacked on over time.

Not only in China, Valve for example develops VACnet. For now it's not really that useful, which kinda gets amplified by banning in waves, to make it harder for cheat developers to adapt early, but keeps cheaters playing for longer.

Gonna keep an eye on it, but I'm not to sure if it'll be the solution to this issue...