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Comment by lern_too_spel | Hacker News Reader

Here we all are, talking on a heavily moderated forum that is meant to increase civility and reduce noise. If you think Mozilla's idea is bad, why are you here?

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Because they're supposed to be working on their browser, not dicking around with social media.

Seems like they've been doing a lot of work on their browser. Definitely kept up with Chrome and Safari at least:

https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022?stable

What exactly is the issue? I don't think just throwing more money or people at that specific work would increase velocity. At a certain point you get too many cooks in the kitchen

I think a lot of people are still disappointed that for example servo didn't make it to it's endgoal and the team behind it mostly got fired whilst the CEO increases her compensation, the board expands and money is given to things like letting artists examine ai impact. They want it to outperform chromium browsers instead of implementing 3 separate ways to save tabs across devices.

They want firefox to keep up in marketshare because it can keep as much as you want on your scoreboard... If it isn't used it ends up useless, dead and without a hand in webstandards. I still remember how many users it lost because google could switch video compression standards last second because ff could just be ignored leading to countless peers blaming firefox for being laggy with youtube open.

It's worse now.

Presumably, they are planning to get revenue from this instead of having it be a charity.

The community here is good in spite of, not because of, the moderation. The dang-era changes to "increase civility" have predictably lowered the quality of discussion - just look at threads from 10 or even 5 years ago and compare it to the barely-better-than-Reddit discussion we see now. For now there's still some legacy of the good old days to be found here, but I don't expect to stay much longer.

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