@ity @fireborn They have a loooong history of attacking anyone they deem to have 'harassed' them, going as far as essentially stalking people's online accounts for any 'problematic' statements to swarm their replies with 'corrections' which tend to argue about technical semantics instead of addressing the more general criticisms raised. "I didn't crush that person's spine, it was my car that did it!" type of stuff. This thread is evidently no exception.

The founder/lead dev Daniel Micay, who played a big role in fostering this kind of behaviour in his communities, attacked Louis Rossmann for "harassment" and got publicly suplexed in return, which finally got him to "step down" from the project. This didn't actually last long, as he returned to working on the project a few months later. This was possible to check on his Github activity for his website's repo, but his profile is privated now.

@molytov @ity I think there's some things I could have expressed better, but I won't say they didn't come out swinging rather than have a conversation. The first thing I got essentially boiled down to abuse. I'm exhausted at FOSS spaces being "you want change, do it yourself. Look. we gave you half the car. Now clap."

@jscholes @molytov @ity I did end up redacting the post for my own reasons, one of those being that some of the things I said were objectively incorrect because I didn't have context that I was given later. I think I was interacting with 2 different people, one person who was taking that approach, and someone else who was much more understanding of where the original comments came from. I'm hopeful that some actual progress can come of this now that the right questions are being asked, and I don't think there's a need to leave something in place that has incorrect info in it. Of course, I'll continue to call out bad accessibility when ever and wherever I see it, but in future, I'll at least calm down first, like I did for the linux situation.

@fireborn @molytov @ity Very fair. But while I support a team's right to defend themselves or correct misunderstandings, they'd also do well to consider who's running the social media accounts with the project's name on it and how, with an eye to creating more proportionate responses to the actions of a single person.

@jscholes @molytov @ity I agree. Had I had that context from the start, this would have not ballooned in the way that it did.