[quietsegfault]

I have never seen anyone with enough menu bar icons to have them hide, nor have I known anyone who ran into that problem. It’s a bug that should be fixed, but I just don’t think it’s as big of a deal as it’s made out to be.

[oaweoifjwpo]

Just because you have never personally seen a bug occur doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

This very article is about how Tailscale frequently gets reports of them being hidden.

And I personally have had the icons hidden. My work laptop has a lot of stuff running on it (much of it is mandatory: VPN, custom company processes, Google Drive, etc) and combined with my personal preferred programs (f.lux, etc) it occasionally hits the limit and goes under the notch.

[Kaliboy]

Did we read the same article? It literally drove them to create a new application.

[oaweoifjwpo]

This is the fairly standard Apple defensework where "it just works, but if it doesn't work it's probably not a real problem" despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

[rcakebread]

"nor have I known anyone who ran into that problem"

Why on earth would people tell you that?

[sensanaty]

It only takes like 6 extra apps for items to start being hidden, it's really not that rare of an occurrence.

[inopinatus]

"I don't have any experience with that problem, it follows that no-one has that problem".