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Not sure how I feel about the swearing on the page.

I too feel a little put off by this. I find it immature and gratuitious, like others have said in this thread. This made me recall that in the examples they have HTML comments reading "le javascript" and "le CSS" if I recall correctly.

I have a personal pet peeve with people using 'Internet slang' outside _humor_ places on the Internet (some people I know overuse it to the point of annoyance), and so the discomfort I feel reading these terms sneaks up to my impressions of Bootstrap and its authors. Of course, rationally I know it's a good product made by outstanding people, so I still use it without refrain, though.

If 'shit' and 'clusterfuck' makes you feel uncomfortable, don't visit NY. You'll have a terrible time.

It's not about the language used, it's about the context. He's not expressing anger or making a humorous statement. He's just throwing f-bombs around to show that he's your "brah." I don't quite understand it, but every time i read something by @fat, i feel like i'm reading a YouTube comment from a 10-year-old.

And it's quite gratuitous too. Take for example:

  Modals are all responsive and ____ now.

How random.

It's just a word.

Yes but it's unprofessional way to use it to describe context in this case. He's not talking with a friend. He's making an announcement.

Maybe he thinks of you as a friend?

I agree. If it were a discussion that would totally fit, but it's an announcement so it feels strange be to "talked to" in that sort of abstract and casual tone. Although maybe it's just a cultural thing.

Why does it matter?

There are some work environments where using "shit" and "fuck" would be a turn-off -- not all places are very relaxed about that stuff.

On a more personal note, it feels immature -- titling a section "Oh shit what" just for the sake of irony dilutes the meaning of what they're conveying. The info would be equally effective without it, and it's just filler.

I know people just want to have fun, but why not save the swearing for personal blog posts rather than a large (and growing) open source project?

I agree, it's gratuitous. Anyone with a swear filter (families, corporates) can't look at the documentation, and religious organisations may feel uncomfortable.

Being open source, perhaps there's a fork opportunity for 'Bootstrap without the swearing'.

VelcroStrip?

Or keep the name Bootstrap for the fork, and rename this JockStrap?

Sounds juvenile. If I wasn't familiar with Bootstrap it'd certainly cause me pause.

Because it's gratuitous and unprofessional.

It's kind of lame - sure it was cool to swear when I was a teenager, but here it's pointless.

If I'm reading a webcomic or some subreddit then fine.

It's a huge turnoff.

For me, it's not so much that the profanity is offensive or anything - I have what many might consider to be a fairly dirty mouth.

It's that their usage of profanity is lame. They're trying to be cool and funny, and it's very much neither of these. If they could actually managed the be humorous with profanity, then maybe I wouldn't mind it so much but this blog post really reeks of someone who is desperately trying to be funny and yet miserably fails.

Exactly how I felt about it. Like it was written by an old sad salesman with a pasted smile.

I liked the casual tone. It read like the sort of thing you'd actually say when explaining the framework, and required less mental effort to interpret than program documentation usually does.

It's like they're celebrating their release from 'Twitter' brand.

If this is all you have to complain about, maybe its time you tried something new in your life instead of criticizing others on how they conduct theirs.

sooo... Counter(re.findall(r"[^a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z]+)[^a-zA-Z]",requests.get("http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/02/07/bootstrap-2-3-releas...).content.lower()))

I see one occurrence of 'shit'. I'm not sure how I feel about your pansy ass semi-outrage of someone else's release page language.

Oh, wait. I feel nothing, approximately what this entire conversation thread is worth.

Ctrl + F shows two. Time to update your regex-fu, or use simpler tools.

re.findall() returns all non-overlapping matches. We need to use a positive lookahead on the third part of the pattern to stop it from consuming the non-character:

  re.findall(r"[^a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z]+)(?=[^a-zA-Z])", ..)

If my comment seemed like a semi-outrage then you sir/madam are a very sensitive person.

Love the use of Counter & requests, but you get 76 li elements with your regex - one of which contains another occurance.

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