We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15079139 and marked it off-topic.

Good christ, I can't believe I'm responding to an ESR blog post, but this "djangoconcardiff" account joined Github [1] the same day every comment in that thread was posted… which was, by the way, months after the DjangoCon in Cardiff wrapped up. How do people not see that whole incident as the bad-faith troll that it clearly is?

[1]: https://archive.is/UDFZt#selection-193.0-193.16

The awesome-django issue here is full of BS. https://archive.is/dgilk

Oh brother.