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> widely

Bullshit.

Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website, but your feedback is rubbish for some developer providing a proof-of-concept. mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment because it didn't pressure the dev, while giving the dev a heads up _if_ they are interested and happen to read HN.

Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser (3.35%) and is trending to be less popular than Opera (2.86%) and Samsung Internet (2.6%). Obviously HN selects for abnormal users: I actually like mckirk's comment because it is a beautiful reminder that there are niche users with interesting configurations and maybe I should have a look at that plugin. Nobody wants to be an entitled open source user.

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>> widely

> Bullshit.

Dark Reader has >9 million total users across browsers as reported by the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Mac app stores [1][2][3][4]. That is definitely a very small percentage of total web browser users - with some estimates putting chrome users at 3.2 billion(!)[5], but 9 million users isn't something to scoff at either.

FWIW - I completely agree that mckirk's comment was a great passing "fyi" that doesn't put pressure on the dev. I also think it relevant to the original post (not some tangential common complaint, nor against the HN guidelines).

[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...

[2]: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reade...

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

[4]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id14382...

[5]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-interne...

"Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website"

Svader is for making consumer facing websites. At least potentially.

"mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment"

And was still downvoted for it. Hence my reaction.

"Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser"

And I use dark reader on firefox as well as on chrome.

> downvoted

Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances", 2. HN site norms are enforced by downvotes - downvoting is correct by definition

Plus another important guideline is "Please don't comment about the voting on comments". I'm trying to help you moderate yourself - of course the next escalation is for this inane subthread (including my comments) to be flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (edited: added more details)

You might as well quote the rule in full, if you are going to throw the guidelines around.

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

I think this makes it pretty clear that this guideline wasn't talking about people trying to provide helpful feedback for a developer, letting them know about a strange edge-case (i.e., why should an extension injecting CSS even mess with WebGL content?) that they might want to look into.

"Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances""

We disagree on "tangential annoyances". And that's it from my side.

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