[ranger_danger]

What's with those comments? Wow.

Edit: Upon further inspection... almost every phoronix comment thread seems to be this toxic.

[0x457]

It has everything that certain group hates:

- rust

- rust in linux

- vtuber persona

- vtuber persona's gender that doesn't match gender of person under that persona

[asveikau]

Too early to tell now for the HN thread, but I came here thinking "this will be a hell of a comment section"...

[phoronixrly]

Typical phoronix-style inflammatory blogspam. If this is what it takes to keep a Linux news site afloat, we're better off without any.

Also, as always, the article is below HN's level...

[irelephant]

I always thought there was too many linux sites compared to the amount of linux users anyway.

[tempaccount420]

Did they disable the comment thread visibility for anon/not-logged-in users? I hope they deleted the comments instead of only hiding them from the public eye.

[ranger_danger]

They disabled the entire comment thread, even if you're logged in:

Sorry, you are not authorized to view this page. For assistance contact the site administrator.

Here's one of the pages I still had open: https://0x0.st/81X4.png

[ponorin]

i am still able to see it; perhaps you're not a paying subscriber, which i (regrettably) am.

edit: yes you do need a phoronix premium or have been a forum member for 3+ years to view the thread.

[spelyytomat]

Not sure about the forum member part, I've been onboard since 2019 and it shows the same error message on my end

[ranger_danger]

Can you upload screenshots for archival purposes? Thanks

[ponorin]

Unfortunately I have just cancelled my subscription, which has terminated my membership immediately. I don't want to reread the atrocious waste (or expose them to others) anyway.

[clipsy]

Sounds like a good opportunity to save yourself some money.

[sam_lowry_]

Why?

[clipsy]

Paying money that seemingly goes entirely to supporting a comments section dominated by trolls seems like a bad idea to me. YMMV I guess.

[tempaccount420]

Wow, it was really bad.

[technion]

If you find this shocking, you're in a quite fortunate bubble.

[duskwuff]

It looks as though they specifically disabled the comments for this article (or moved the thread to an subforum which isn't visible to the public).

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

[alexvoda]

Notably, even if Phoronix disabled the comments, they have not administered any consequences to the main offender

[stuaxo]

I doubt it, some of the commenters there have been terrible for years.

[stuaxo]

It's like the worst of the edgy Linux users of the 90s, but somehow worse.

[duskwuff]

> Edit: Upon further inspection... almost every phoronix comment thread seems to be this toxic.

Correct. It's notoriously bad.

[latentcall]

I can’t even view the comments without signing in. Probably a good thing.