That's the question we're trying to answer now. We've been maintaining Capistrano with effectively zero data about our users since the project's inception.

HN always has very extreme, and usually very negative reactions to any kind of tracking, integration, promotion, analytics, etc - and rightly so, with governments and corporations eroding our privacy at every step, we have to be on guard.

That said, this isn't some coup to drive Capistrano into the hearts of it's victims, it's an experiment to see how to approach people and whether sitting on the front page of hacker news is a net benefit or a net loss.

My gut feeling is that the reaction has been fair. The thread title is unfortunately misleading because of OPs miscomprehension of the message displayed, and I don't know how to reach the mods to request it be reviewed.

> Maybe it is better to find other ways of reaching potential users than with a message during cap install.

Almost certainly, we have to experiment a little bit and see where the threshold lay.

I'm glad you're getting value out of Capistrano, I hope it can continue, and that Cap will improve at a faster rate once we better understand how people use it and optimize for those cases.

Might I ask, how do you find the new default formatter?