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I don't think there are "more sides" to this story. Harassing someone because one doesn't like an update to a piece of software is not okay.

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There are always more sides to a story, and hearing another side doesn’t mean you think whatever they have done is “okay.”

> Harassing someone because one doesn't like an update to a piece of software

Harassment is probably never okay butneither is directing obscene gestures at people.

Hi! Emily here! Added some more context in a footnote in the blog post about this "obscene gesture" and the harassment after the fact. TLDR: The amount of disgusting harassment I received was unbelievable and could never be justified as a reasonable reaction to an "obscene gesture"

Hi Emily! Thanks for your reply. I’m sorry to hear of your being the victim of harassment and I appreciate your post here clarifying the circumstances.

Thank you for your contributions to open source software. Many web users, myself included, rely on free and open source projects for our work and recreation and these products would not exist without the generous contributions of kind and skilled persons such as yourself.

I hope you recover from your burnout and find a fulfilling role somewhere that respects your mental health and values your contributions.

Awkward. Somehow I feel you would have been happily piling on with the harassment given the chance.

Consider being less judgmental of strangers in the future, your instincts are off.

I don't know really understand why users hate on ordinary devs.

But as someone who is still using Firefox despite Mozilla management (not the devs) ignoring us, belittling us when we voice our concerns and destroy the software we fell in love with more than a decade ago over "ux" I can understand why people are frustrated:

Firefox was in another league.

Someone wrote about Pale Moon the other day, I can sadly not recommend using it as the main browser, I'm not in a position to vouch for the security, but if anyone wonders they could try to create a few ugly modern apps or open a few known safe websites and have a look :

it feels snappy, even years after Firefox diverged! And it looks so good with all the old extensions.

A real shame even I don't really dare to use it, but the web is a harsh environment.

Opera was in another league too, but they fucked it up too.

Ouch...

Thank you for your work!

From someone who only uses the basics that a browser has to offer (simple is better), I just wanna say, I don't mind the update. I rather like it. Thanks for the hard work.

people who want to be assholes will always find a reason to do it. it doesn't make it another "side of the story".

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