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Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.
by forlorn 4y ago
Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.
- 27182818284 4y agoI'm with you. I was actually expecting a message about it being hacked or something similar to when Transmission had malware added to a version of it.
- iqkznnft 4y agoTransmission had malware? Link?
- erdeibit 4y agoYes, several times https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transmission-hijacked-again-to-spread-malware/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/09/transm...
- iqkznnft 4y agoThanks for that, I'm getting rid of transmission. So sad. Do you wanna suggest a client? I value apps which are light in resources with fast ui
- 29083011397778 4y agoLooks like it was in 2016, and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589
- hifikuno 4y agoI was just wondering the same thing. Maybe it's to simply bring awareness to those who haven't seen it before?
- LanternLight83 4y agoI often think it's a program or set of docs that someone happened upon for the first time themselves, but that can't explain all of them; regardless, I love these kinds of posts, for the opportunity to encounter something that others might have assumed to be obvious and the spontaneous discussions that occur
- donio 4y agoThere are ton of junk posts like that every day. The more interesting question is what makes some of these occasionally gain traction and upvotes seemingly at random.
- yieldcrv 4y agoactivity brigading just like anywhere else some organic, some brigading laundered into organic but some people coordinate elsewhere and send a post here