| I avoid communicating with HN completely and this is an account I just created to respond to you. > Let's say I found a way to bring back the number of dislikes of YT videos. Knowing that some YT devs are on the platform, I'd be reluctant to share it so that they won't know about it [0] and ruin the already-ruined YT experience. It shouldn't be like this, I know. But I've lost hope in the well-intentions of some devs in the industry. I thought we were supposed to have each other's back, but apparently money makes people do anything. Think you are blaming the wrong people here. Developers do not decide what will be done/removed in an app like YT, managers do. Of course they do it for the money (or some personal thing). Sure there is people upholding solidarity as a principle and support you but there will always we those who play zero sum games (see Watzlawick) and those who really don't know better than to offend others being insensitive. > ... watched a YT tutorial to sharpen your skills? Now w/o the dislikes count, all devs have a much harder time filtering useless videos. Only very specific topics and most of the time I have to find out if the approach taken in the video (still) works either way. On a personal note: I prefer learning new stuff from other people (not only devs), by reading the documentation and get some hands on experience. YT feels like it's making me unproductive because it seeks attention too much and also a lot of people there are behaving in a very annoying way (because they seek attention, too and because they want to make money). The reason I don't communicate with HN (anymore) is the strong US-centric view which in my opinion is prevalent here and it's just not my community because I don't share much with them (believes, lifestyle etc.). It is a news aggregator for me and the comments let me know what (rich) people in the US think about those headlines. |