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It's really shocking to me that years later, nobody has addressed the most serious issue (community interaction) Dan brought up. Just reading the archived mailing list thread I could not believe the suspicion, and later outright hostility towards Dan's comments. It obviously dawned on a couple of core contributors, as can be seen by the sheepish attempts to walk things back, but this sort of interaction _with the project leadership_ is a giant red flag about how they view their community and users. If someone like Dan can be treated in that way publicly (and far worse privately, according to his own account), things are going to be so much worse for other people.