[natch]

“Cancer” is a little melodramatic.

Negative feedback (including yours, and mine, and that of those who may reply to this disagreeing with me) has its place.

I’ve seen forums (fora?) where almost everyone is exclusively positive (like some reddit look-what-I-made topics), and that well-intentioned behavior can be pretty unhelpful if you’re trying to get different perspectives on your own project.

Yet there are always people there who bend over backwards to make someone feel bad if the person was (sarcasm: rude enough) to suggest there may be a way to improve something. Enforcing the positivity-only social norms.

I’m glad that HN, by contrast, stands out as having more free range thinkers who tell it like it is.

[poisonborz]

This is wholly true, but the comment above makes absurd claims ("Smartphone/tablet? No one converts there! Want privacy? Use Debian!"), bending backwards to say something negative.

[b112]

It may seem negative, but it is also true.

You cannot have privacy with web apps. At all. Ever.