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I found it quite funny that people develop extensions that track the availability of one of the most important building blocks of the software industry, because

I found it quite funny that people develop extensions that track the availability of one of the most important building blocks of the software industry, because their reliability is so poor. You could have posted a warning to not actually install random extensions. Instead you came across as questioning why anyone would post links to them at all. The poster was clear they didn't actually recommend the extensions. Sharing stuff is fun, and hardly any software posted to HN is professionally reviewed beforehand anyway.

embedding-shape 21d ago
> The poster was clear they didn't actually recommend the extensions. Sharing stuff is fun Sharing stuff we know are good is fun. Sharing just random stuff? No, why would you do that? The whole point is why would you share those extensions if you don't actually recommend them? It's noise, the opposite of why we all come here in the first place. Do you also just submit whatever to HN as link submissions, without even reading it or checking it yourself?
- ncr100 20d ago
  Just trying to wrap up this thread, and say, ... ... I intended to indicate more a Quantity concept, the existence of these links is to suggest that there is additional interest and effort out there in the human universe of developers, that this whole GitHub disruption services issue is worsening and we all here on this Hacker News thread are trodding a somewhat well-worn path. And I apologize for not making that conclusion in my comment so as to stave off spinning out a tangential discussion unnecessarily.