[m_sahaf]

This is being blown out of proportion. You're discounting an entire project and your experience of the software over a person expressing exasperation over an inconsequential feature (not a bug) that even the author of curl had his run through and frustration. The request was not dismissed, rather it was discussed at length on our issue tracker. The OP knows it was discussed at length because they linked to the discussion thread in the earlier times they brought this up. Moreover, the way they presented it this time is snide, agree or not. To quote Matt's statement of the project being "stable and mature" just to say "except you didn't implement my niche feature" (yes, editorialized) is not criticism nor a feature request. It's veiled instigation hiding behind plausible deniability.

Anyways, on the feature request, Caddy is not the only software who disagrees with it being valid, and curl had their back-and-forth on it. There's no legitimate bug being dismissed, and you can go through the issue tracker to audit it. Equating this discussion with 37signals or Signal is false equivalence.

Disclaimer: Caddy maintainer

[JimDabell]

> a person expressing exasperation

They accused them of a grudge, an attack, slander, and shoving it in their face. For something as mild as this:

> There still remains this simple to reproduce bug where the page doesn't load of you use the full domain name of a site.

That’s a long way beyond exasperation, that’s a massive overreaction.

[m_sahaf]

It's a repeat complaint from the same person who admits bringing it up before. The way they framed their complaint is, again, snide.

> That’s a long way beyond exasperation, that’s a massive overreaction.

Your reaction to Francis is _the_ overreaction. Francis simply said to OP to put their money where their mouth is. The "slander" comment comes later as a general statement on why this subject has become annoying.

Stop being hung up on Francis' response. The niche feature was discussed at length multiple times. You're welcome to search the web for all the conversations we had on the subject. Caddy has been around for 11 years. We've seen this subject more than you've seen it brought up. Again, OP referenced the discussion on the issue tracker in one of the earlier times they brought it up. They _admit_ it's niche. What's the point of continuously bringing it up?

[JimDabell]

> It's a repeat complaint from the same person who admits bringing it up before.

This is what you’re referring to, right?

> > I think it's unfair to say that I post this every time when I've only mentioned it twice before, with the previous time being 2 years ago.

> Last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474419 and you also said "I have only brought this up once before on HN and it was over 2 years ago." in that same thread.

Okay, so the last time was 18 months ago not two years. But do you really think that mentioning it three times in 3.5 years can fairly be described as a grudge?

> Stop being hung up on Francis' response.

This is the only thing that matters to me in this thread. The bug itself is not that interesting. It’s a big deal to me that your team seems to take even the mildest mention of a bug as some kind of harassment. I’ve seen that kind of attitude before, and it’s dangerous.

[francislavoie]

Yes calling it a grudge is kneejerk, but no I won't apologize for it because of how intensely frustrating the prior discussions (and today's, no help to you) were to deal with (take today's, multiply it by two for the intensity, then multiply it by ten for the amount of times it happened). You aren't me, you don't know what I've experienced and you don't know all the details, so please stop making assumptions.