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by michaeltbuss 4289 days ago
> the fact that Cydia recommended it to our large base of terminal-using developers for a long time by accident

Do you have more I can read about this? That is really interesting!

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Someone other than me updated the web pages in Cydia that walk people through how to set up and use OpenSSH on their device (which were sort of required, as MobileTerminal's upstream had jumped the shark), and I didn't really think through while reviewing the updates that we were essentially "recommending" Prompt--more than just acknowledging its existence--by linking to it from our pages. It ended up on the page because I do use Prompt for the aforementioned masochistic reasons, and as a lot of other people do when people ask me about terminal emulators I often do list it, so it he person doing documentation naturally recommended it, but essentially funneling all of our users to go buy that product as part of their device setup, given that Prompt really doesn't do a very good job, and some of the most critical software we use (like Cycript) isn't well supported by it, was a mistake. These pages never included the tracking code I used to have (the tracking code that for a while caused me to have the >2% of all objects stored on S3 that I have talked about on Hacker News before), so I half-sadly and half-thankfully have no clue how many people were referred to go look at Prompt.