[jessaustin]

An hour in, a complaint about icon-plagiarism-via-anonymous-bikeshedding-session is still the top comment on HN for a software project with ambitious technical goals. That in itself is a strong argument for doing one's own work and creating original icons. Assuming for the sake of discussion that Tox is or could be a technically superior solution, do they really want that obscured by this sort of extraneous bullshit?

EDIT: and now I remember where I've heard that name before, as well: http://testrun.org/tox

Perhaps a rebranding effort is in order? That sort of work seems to be right up /g/'s alley? Google is your friend!

[meritt]

It'd be nice if HN allowed us to collapse entire conversations. Maybe with a TL;DR summary.

[+] [137 messages] "Bunch of people arguing about logo copyright & design for an open-source project."

[Daiz]

>It'd be nice if HN allowed us to collapse entire conversations.

There's a whole bunch of extensions/plugins/userscripts for HN out there, including ones that implement thread hiding. I personally use Hacker News Enhancement Suite for Chrome.

[pyrocat]

Hacker News Enhancement Suite Hacker News Enhancement Suite Hacker News Enhancement Suite ?

[goldfeld]

Hey, that's a great idea! Now excuse me while I come up with it independently.

[ekianjo]

You better trademark/patent/copyright that idea right there before somebody does it and "steal" your precious work :)

[eps]

Agreed. Though it's a Litmus test of how willing they are to cut corners. Imagine having this discussion if it were Linux kernel.

[Craigpd]

TOX is just the project name. The product name is yet to be decided.

This is still a pretty heavy argument about it on the 4Chan threads.

[IDEAS_GUY]

>This is still a pretty heavy argument about it on the 4Chan threads.

The only reason that occurs is because all the non-technical lurkers want a way to contribute.

[Craigpd]

Maybe they should do just what I'm doing.

Sit in the thread monitoring progress. Then congratulating progress when it's made.

Or, if they want to contribute without causing arguments. Go upvote this on Reddit, WOT, Twitter, and whatever else in a way which won't cause a shitstorm in /g/.

[Datsundere]

tox = talks because tox sounds like talks.