[tptacek]

Yeah. Fuck that guy for publishing code for us to look at and maybe use.

[anonyfuss]

What would you do if I published a broken password hashing scheme and encouraged others to use it?

[jaegerpicker]

That's one of the worst analogies that I've ever read. This is a piece of functional, well written code, that you may not like but it in no way is going to be harmful to the developers not the end users. If it's not good less people will use it because users will not like the UI.

[anonyfuss]

> If it's not good less people will use it because users will not like the UI.

It's not quite that simple. If you want to use Netflix, you have to use their terrible webkit-based app. So we all do.

That doesn't mean that everyone would have a better user experience with apps sticking to common platform conventions.

[mikeash]

Poor analogy. A broken password hash cat put me at risk for a long time. A bad UI is instantly fixed by simply not using the app anymore.

[anonyfuss]

If the approach propagates because community norms fail, then a bad UI (and another, and another) may result in the shared investment in common platform conventions being lost.