Finally I see some people around. Was pretty lonely, as it launched.

Glad to have played with it a bit before it got Slashdotted. ;)

It is no longer the same. It went from somewhat exclusive dining experience to full blown nuclear junk food chain vibe.

I've stopped attending it about 10 years ago. I rather prefer to watch some few interesting topics online, and skip all the wanna-be political junk.

> Ostriching doesn't seem productive.

But listening to pep talks of political opinions that are very opposite to yours does not seem productive, either.

Reminded me of GNU Terry Pratchett[1].

[1]: http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/

Also: Banana - Although not technically living, it does make for a good size comparison.

It had to be added:

> Tyrannosaurus rex. One of the largest land predators ever, it had teeth the size of a banana

To be honest, all I see is https://xkcd.com/927/

All config formats are bad. You either don't need all the features at all, except key:value. Or you quickly run into weird limitations and quirks.

What I rather like instead, are custom build english-like DSL's, like:

- https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/smtpd.conf - https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.conf - … and many more

OpenBSD's daemons' configs are pleasant. But then you have to maintain a DSL for even small projects. Most people aren't going to want to implement and maintain a whole one-off config language for their small project. Which is why having a common, minimal option is nice.

I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.

… since 1994

That’s what I know since 1994 as well. thus surprised it’s published here with landing page only and no specific news. Unless I missed one? Is there some 31 years celebration or sth? :)

Read most of the comment, was hesitated. Then thought "it can't be that bad". Ok, it is that bad. I absolutely hate extra round corners and extra margin in the windows. Sigh.

It’s just change. People complain every time the UI changes on anything.

People will get used to it. Apple will refine some things over time.

It will be ok.

I usually agree (and enjoy reading angry threads years later), but wasting screen real estate and getting measurably worse in terms of accessibility is simply not a good design decision.

I guess you can bookmark this thread and set a reminder to revisit it in 5 years and see how it went.

I usually take it even a step further by skipping useless "hello".

Instead of "Hello, did you notice, that db is down? Can you check it please?"

Just terse "DB seems to be down. Please check it."