Tom Morris

Similar post that was on the front page recently: "No, I'm not going to download your bullshit app" http://tommorris.org/posts/8070 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5162841)

I agree, while the app might provide a better experience for Browsing the site in question is does not provide the information that I am currently seeking. Forums often do the "Download our mobile app" (I assume that they are all running on something, PHPBB?, that makes it dead-simple to make an app or point one master app at their particular forum).

Also to your point about not having a mobile->desktop redirect - I hate this. My roommate and I are looking to buy a house and he spends most of his time looking for houses on his phone (in class) so the links he posts on the Trello, that we are using to keep track of the houses, are all mobile. They often don't have as many pictures of the house as the full site does and the controls are often awkward to use. Worse yet, simply removing the "m" from "m.sitename.com" doesn't link to the desktop version and I often have to copy the address, go to the main site, and search for the house to find it.

I think this is a good thing - searching for the n-word on Github reveals a lot of static swear-word lists for filters (which are OK) [1] but also lots of rather strange choices for tests (what's up with weboob's test.py?). We as a community of open source developers have to stop and think about how the outside world perceives us.

There's already lots and lots of negative flak in regards to sexism about Silicon Valley and IT-culture, which doesn't help when the "normal" non-IT population already sees IT-people as a bunch of hateful nerds with absolutely zero social skills.

This is a good action in that it's an open signal to change things - it might not achieve much, but it's a signal.

[1] https://github.com/search?l=python&p=1&q=nigger&ref=searchresults&type=Code link from http://tommorris.org/posts/8053

Wonder if things like this might cause an issue: http://tommorris.org/posts/2550

Mozilla has always stood for freedom of knowledge, and by extension human rights (so people can access that knowledge). I don't know what Brendan's political beliefs currently are, but I hope he doesn't still wish to restrict the human rights of certain people based on their sexual orientation. Not trying to make any assumption and wish him the best, but its at least possible this could be indicative of a world view that sees discrimination as acceptable in certain situations. I sure hope that's not the case. It would not be good for Mozilla, or the Internet at large.