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I am appreciative. I wrote as much to the lawyer who contacted me. I should put that I am appreciative in.

I agree and disagree. HN is not massive, but it is a force.

HN can be one scary angry mob which is nice to be backed by, but horrible to be on the end of. Remember the Aria Richards debacle which was heightened by this community. Just one of many. (That wasn't my intention by the way and everyone's been pretty calm.)

The HN effect is a strange one. :)

They've sent a retraction: http://istumblrdown.com/retraction/

I've added it now. http://istumblrdown.com/letter

This is true.

But anyone can get a site at foo.tumblr.com and post anything. So there brand can be attached to absolutely anything.

Updated with the letter as people requested.

Perhaps I feel that Tumblr is meant to be a free place. And after all you can go to <anywebsite>.tumblr.com and to some people who don't know better - that's an official website by Tumblr.

You raise some great points and if they feel the need to protect their brand then I understand. But it was a website to HELP their users.

Totally agreed. Just a "Can you be less snarky please? and I would have changed the language and redeployed.

Tumblr itself was highly fragile, so this could be the case. But the Tumblr users were used to things breaking a lot and understood.

I think the biggest thing was the fact they spent all the time removing Missing E rather than adding a few features people wanted.

It's actually quite handy. I wish a lot more places would use it.

For example, when flying to Germany I had the Lufthansa app. An hour before the flight it popped up on my home screen and stuck there. (As in, no cancel.)

Then when I go to the airport, I swiped it and the lady just scanned it in - and me and my girlfriend both had our tickets printed.

I'm about to launch a design critique site that I've been working on for months.

The truth is that it's easier to critique in person than online. If you don't know someone's personality and can't read their nuances it makes it a lot harder.

But thats a very good critique advice.

I think it was valid critique. (Something I am sure you give the companies you fund.) It's not always easy to provide critique without knocking the cause - But I understood that's how jug6ernaut meant it.

If I were to buy a tshirt for HN, which I might possibly do - I'd want it to show off a message rather than it looking like it could be for anything. This doesn't feel personal to the brand to me – I could buy this anywhere for a number of reasons.

And of all your description of what you want the community to be - do you want it full of snark like your response? Your response was far more 'schoolyard bullying.'

We're adults here, if we can't take critique without crying foul - the internet isn't for us.

(And this is not me attacking, or having a go.)

I can only speculate the designers said "Oh man, if we can interact with each other's city that'd be awesome" and someone higher up said "It'll always be on!"

Everyone saw this coming. Everyone. I don't understand how they couldn't prepare better?

I've tried really hard to get a mix of seasoned and newcommer speakers :) Have so much excitement in the quality of the lineup.

While they can, it doesn't mean they should.

Mitsubish are selling product, while this is a portfolio design and thus should require less attention while you work on clients.

The solution is not to blame the victims of the theft. Agreed that shaming isn't always the best idea either though.

Let's not forget Mogotest.com

I've used both Browserstack and Mogotest on and off the past few years and I have to admit its invaluable.

Hey, I'm one of the organisers.

A BIG THANKS to all those who've upvoted this.

We're really trying to get the two disciplines together. As someone who's done well in both fields, I know there's tension and I know that it can be scary to want to learn more. I'm hoping to bridge that gap with some amazing speakers and workshops :)

I'm not sure how well this'll work for him. He's made an enemy out of most people. I expect it'd be an even harder job for him than most.

So my question… with all these posts we're seeing and complains, is there an official investigation that we know of? I know there's a petition and it seems to have passed but I was curious as to what was going on.

Really frustrating to see such sexism.

This is the definition of creating. Bringing other ideas together, and making them better.

Apple are exactly the same too. The stuff I love the most has come from elsewhere.

Let's not forget their market share has dropped. A company is measured by it's today, and it's tomorrow.

I liked the article and thought it was good but ruined by the link-bait title.

As said, the the article itself was good though.

Compare it to the stuff that could be up here. People's projects.

I'm not sure what's to learn from this other than: * Tumblr is down * Killing the DNS is bad

+1 It's infuriating and seems like karma bait.

The "flat design trend" is just minimalism to be fair. Something we've had for ages.

But the latest series of flat designs do often rely on rounded corners too. Glad you wrote this though as I was about to do the same :)

Ahh. That sucks. Didn't realise it was his second time on Kickstarter. Sure he asked a few friends to help back it to improve the social proof throughout too. Where there's a will, there's a way. Hopefully he finds a not too difficult solution to this one.

This is very much a erroneous filler post with such highlights as: Acton’s most recent tweet was on January 13, 2012 (no, he’s not an active tweeter), a day notable for Whatsapp getting pulled from the App Store (restored four days later). The tweet was “Whatsapp.”

But, it's an interesting suggestion I am sure many of us have pondered. Although a distaste for startups that sell out quickly as we have learnt time and time again: everyone has their price.

I believe they pony-uped $800 in the final seconds according to the reports.

You also get relative too though.

If you ask for $5000. Chances are you're going to get closer to that, than $50,000. If you ask for $500,000. Chances are you're going to get higher than the $5,000.

Plenty of people have gone for the big dollars. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit... Granted it's Obsidian, but people still blew it out the water.