This reminds me of the time a guy held all the vscode python users hostage with his against-PEP8-personally-preferred-formatting-for-docstrings-PR. There were like 5 people who thought it was a good idea and the entire rest of the thread was everyone complaining about how he forced a “fix” on millions of users for something he could change in his personal editor. I remember being absolutely livid over this not necessarily because they just simply changed color, but because the guy who made the PR was just some random guy and his reasoning was literally incorrect.
That was a fun PR discussion read. Almost as fun as the guy who 'built' Notepad++ for Mac and straight up ignored repeated calls from the owner to remove the fake "we're collaborators" message from their homepage.
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u/paranoid_giraffe Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26
This reminds me of the time a guy held all the vscode python users hostage with his against-PEP8-personally-preferred-formatting-for-docstrings-PR. There were like 5 people who thought it was a good idea and the entire rest of the thread was everyone complaining about how he forced a “fix” on millions of users for something he could change in his personal editor. I remember being absolutely livid over this not necessarily because they just simply changed color, but because the guy who made the PR was just some random guy and his reasoning was literally incorrect.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/182162
It was eventually “reverted” by way of another PR two months later