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Comment by lorenzfx | Hacker News Reader

Better link: https://phacility.com/phabricator/

yes, maybe someone could change the main link on this post? As it is, the HN traffic appears to be disrupting the Wikimedia instance.

Better link indeed.

But also a bit scary:

> Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted.

All of Phabricator's copy is off-color like that.

Don't take it too seriously.

Thanks, reading on confirmed that.

It used to be much easier to tell when Phabricator was its own dedicated thing (before it got moved under the Phacility umbrella). Before it redirected, the old https://phabricator.org/ was basically a comedy marketing page: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304014537/http://phabricato...

The software itself is similarly whimsical[0][1]

[0] https://secure.phabricator.com/D7216

[1] https://secure.phabricator.com/rP099695ab615775e5f6d107fba40...

Especially check out https://secure.phabricator.com/D13641 :)

https://hackerone.com/phabricator?view_policy=true

> Phabricator has more than 300,000 lines of PHP, so there are probably at least sixty or seventy million security vulnerabilities in the project. Virtually limitless wealth!

"Written in PHP so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program." - not exactly a cheery marketing point for PHP, not sure I'd want to use something written by people who have no idea how to program. But I guess that's why they have the blurb above...

You use the web, don't you? /s

It's PHP, you don't have to know how to program to use it, you just have to believe strongly enough.

As a PHP programmers, we've gotten so used to people shitting on our language that we've internalized it and shit on it ourselves now. I don't like it but I'll lump it for the convenient std lib.

It's a joke. You can't speak about PHP online without getting inundated with comments about how supposedly awful it is, and how if you like PHP you are a bad developer.

They are just embracing the steriotype sarcastically.

I saw that at the bottom of https://phacility.com/phabricator/ and actually laughed out loud. Good to see a sense of humor and self-criticism.

See [1],

"Phabricator uses a lighthearted tone in documentation and some interfaces, and includes some features which primarily exist to add flavor or make things sillier.

We use this tone because we like building software like this, and the feedback we receive about it from users is overwhelmingly (and often effusively) positive."

[1] https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/tone...

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