It's not hard. This is a .gov website and as such isn't plagued with a million external tracking and advertising/marketing scripts. It is also completely static.
GitHub recently introduced "Discussions". Issue-like threads basically. Whether they're acceptable for "praise" of the project varies from maintainer to maintainer I'd suppose.
No need to dial your tone down, the absolute fucking baboons whose idea that level of restriction on a website was deserve every bit of hate and criticism they get.
What a condenscending thing to say. Perhaps the maintainers simply aren't willing to waste valuable time and energy on inferior alternatives that attract fewer people.
The usability and accessibility of a platform such as Discord simply can't compare with FOSS alternatives.
There is already a setting which prevents people not on your friends list from contacting you, as well as a setting limiting who can request to add you as a friend. What more do you need?
Seems like a fun learning project, but in the real world it's very counterproductive. You can obtain the base64 representation of the current clipboard contents very quickly using a single terminal shell command.
Not really, though I can provide any valid LaTeX input and get the appropriate result back. To be honest the setup is not ideal, as the input is first converted to a PDF file (that has to be saved in a temporary directory, along with other residual files, as "pdflatex" doesn't support stdout/stdin, for some reason), and only then to an image. Still though, it's much snappier than relying on online "latex to image" converters that basically do the same thing on a server somewhere.
I recently wrote a shell script bound to a keyboard shortcut, that pops up a window with a text input field that accepts LaTeX input, and immediately converts it to a JPG that is then copied to the clipboard. Super useful.
They're too embarrassed of all the shit code they've written that makes the app slow - so they obfuscate it to try to hide how shit it is - and it turn it becomes even slower ;)
It's an absolute godsend. Scripting in it feels really intuitive compared to POSIX shells. I find it such a shame that we probably won't get rid of POSIX shells for at least a couple more decades... if that.