Bullshit.
Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website, but your feedback is rubbish for some developer providing a proof-of-concept. mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment because it didn't pressure the dev, while giving the dev a heads up _if_ they are interested and happen to read HN.
Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser (3.35%) and is trending to be less popular than Opera (2.86%) and Samsung Internet (2.6%). Obviously HN selects for abnormal users: I actually like mckirk's comment because it is a beautiful reminder that there are niche users with interesting configurations and maybe I should have a look at that plugin. Nobody wants to be an entitled open source user.
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Dark Reader has >9 million total users across browsers as reported by the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Mac app stores [1][2][3][4]. That is definitely a very small percentage of total web browser users - with some estimates putting chrome users at 3.2 billion(!)[5], but 9 million users isn't something to scoff at either.
FWIW - I completely agree that mckirk's comment was a great passing "fyi" that doesn't put pressure on the dev. I also think it relevant to the original post (not some tangential common complaint, nor against the HN guidelines).
[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...
[2]: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reade...
[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
[4]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id14382...
[5]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-interne...
Svader is for making consumer facing websites. At least potentially.
"mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment"
And was still downvoted for it. Hence my reaction.
"Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser"
And I use dark reader on firefox as well as on chrome.
Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances", 2. HN site norms are enforced by downvotes - downvoting is correct by definition
Plus another important guideline is "Please don't comment about the voting on comments". I'm trying to help you moderate yourself - of course the next escalation is for this inane subthread (including my comments) to be flagged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (edited: added more details)
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I think this makes it pretty clear that this guideline wasn't talking about people trying to provide helpful feedback for a developer, letting them know about a strange edge-case (i.e., why should an extension injecting CSS even mess with WebGL content?) that they might want to look into.
We disagree on "tangential annoyances". And that's it from my side.