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I definitely respect them for everything they're doing, and I really want to like this project, but my very first exposure to this project was when someone linked to it on HN, I clicked the link, and the website told me that since it detected that I was from HN I am not welcomed and it refused to show me the article... it just left a really weird taste in my mouth.

I don't know if they still do that but that's the first thing I think of every time I see Asahi mentioned or I think about giving it a try.

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Just based on the quality of the comments that comes from HN towards the Asahi project, I don't blame them for doing that.

I dunno. To me, the comments seem 99% positive every time this project is discussed here. What are you referring to?

I think there are a small minority of people who consistently want to guess at the identity of Asahi Lina and make comments about her gender.

I don't think it's that hard to find out, given the discussion that was already held here on the topic

That discussion and similar discussions that seems to come up regularly was probably the reason they don't want HN traffic, and it's unfortunate the the moderators here haven't worked harder to shut that stuff down. The gender of their developers just isn't relevant to the quality of their work.

Can you find me a single HN comment on this topic that states (or even implies) that the gender of a developer is relevant to the quality of their work?

Because I haven't seen anything like that, so you seem to be attacking a strawthem.

That's really surprising. I've been on HN a while now and I've never noticed that type of comment. The reason I'm on HN at all is that it reminds me of the "old internet" where people posted links and discussed stuff. You're always gonna get someone saying stuff you don't like, but banning all of HN considering how decent the 99.9% is.. is odd. It's not 4chan.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014188

Well, you just didn't look hard enough, this is from literally the last thread about Asahi before this one. Pretty much every single post about Asahi Linux on HN has transphobic comments.

That's from a newly made account (green name), and it's flagged so it's not visible to most users (including me). There's no forum in the world with open sign ups that can prevent a few assholes from joining.

Thanks for linking my comment. Would you mind explaining exactly why you disagree with it?

Anyone who actually cares about Asahi Linux knows who Asahi Lina is. If it is actually intended to be a secret it is one of the worst kept secrets I can think of.

Maybe it has changed since the project was launched, and moderation has been applied. I remember lots and lots of "what's the point?" and "it's a shame your efforts are wasted" sentiments, and "apple is just going to snap their fingers and shut this down one day".

They've already thought about these things and it's still what they chose to work on, so I can understand them blocking a contributing source of those comments.

That being said, I agree the more recent threads have more positivity than negativity so that's good.

That was the result of an previous thread on asahi. It was the only time I've been embarrassed by the HN community and it's treatment of people contributing to open source.

Link to back story? This is the first I've heard of that.

Honestly, I'd want to donate to them more for that

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