You've a lot of reasons to hate Notepad++
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No one is panicking.
No one claimed they were afraid of the advertisement turning them gay, lesbian, nerdy, or whatever the hell that last thing you listed is.
Putting a banner on your software does nothing for a cause that nobody has suppressed in the last 25 years. I take that back, it notified some users to the kind of political beliefs you posses which is good info for any consumer to know. Even for software like this.
The banner did nothing because being LGBT these days is not exactly a difficult thing to do. You are far more likely to get attention and a feeling of group identity, as opposed to any “suppression”, if you come out of the closet these days. Times have changed. It is now fashionable to be gay.
This whole political statement tells you everything you need to know about the person saying it. They either miscalculate the numbers of people not of their ideology, something I see the left constantly doing, or more likely, think the other party is subhuman and not worthy of even debate, much less respecting them and their convictions as being held just as fervently and dearly as yours.
They’re too busy signaling the other collectivists that they are good comrades.
However, they’ve effectively cut their market share, voluntarily and solely due to their lack of business acumen. That is the main problem I have with it.
I support gay marriage and have for quite a while. What I don’t support is developers and businesses telling me what they think about a subject they have no expertise in, like politics.
it is such a strategically stupid thing to do with a razor-thin benefit on one side and cliff on the other, IMO.
Keep politics out of your business and at least respect your clients beliefs, even if you disagree. Tolerance doesn’t mean acceptance but it also must be reciprocal. If you don’t your product will suffer. How much is debatable, but it will suffer. The market will shut all the political hacks up with the reality of competition, it always does, it is just a matter of time. And it will be a beautiful thing to see. The margins in tech have shielded many for a long time but that time is quickly coming to an end.
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Not sure whether you are trolling or not so let me ask:
Did you actually read the whole thread from top to bottom?
You answered on a direct answer from @Meta-Chuh to @Alan-Kilborn but I assume you didn’t check their relation and/or history, did you? -
@misterkatanga has discovered our little secret. @Meta-Chuh and I are actually married! ;)
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@Alan-Kilborn
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Fuck Notepad++ because it doesn’t remember my custom color definitions (in the Color selector of the Styler Dialog used to create User Defined Languages) after closing and relaunching the application.
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Oh yes, by all means, I’m going to stop using NP++ right away because some open-source geek somewhere was having a bad hair day and decided to profanely condemn a free project whose developers freely give their time to provide an excellent free text editor for the enjoyment of anyone who wants to use it. (Did I mention it was free?)
There are lots of text editors with all kinds of licences, plugins, tie-ins (or lack thereof), and whatever other pingelig details you’re so obsessed with. Fer God’s sake, just use one of those instead and quit whining.
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lol no.
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@Meta-Chuh Notepad++ thong is back!!
https://www.cafepress.com/notepadplus.532379075# -
Fuck notepad for the Null error
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NULpad++
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There are slogans for a new release:
“Black lives matter”
“White lives matter too”
“police arbitrariness in the U.S.”
The enemy of China is my friend? Everything is permissible for them?
But as far as I know, Democrats are paying for a revolt to topple Trump. If you ask me, I am against some people humiliating others for whatever reason. -
I have Notepad ++ more than 800 menu items …
my memory is running out! :) %) о_О
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@troshindv no sync without third party
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For collecting personal information and not being able to login with an regular alias.
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@bubblan4 said in You've a lot of reasons to hate Notepad++:
Why would you go this route? Really off-putting.
OK, but this is hate for the choice of support-site software, not general Notepad++ hating. :-)
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@alan-kilborn If there is a thread called for specifically on-site then I would be there.
This is the closest thing. It’s really off-putting and not at all good in any way for the users.
For a support forum that’s just disgusting. This was the first time i encountered where they force you to log in with X details, Facebook/twitter/Github but not with a regular alias / username/password and they also kick you from site if you don’t accept the forced personal details getting collected.
Whoever the owners is, care to share why this is the choice?
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Hmm, it was your choice whether to join or not, and it appears you chose to. So, I’d get over it if I were you.
@bubblan4 said in You've a lot of reasons to hate Notepad++:
forced personal details getting collected.
What are these? I’m confused.
@bubblan4 said in You've a lot of reasons to hate Notepad++:
care to share why this is the choice?
Well, some sort of choice had to be made.
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@bubblan4 said in You've a lot of reasons to hate Notepad++:
For collecting personal information and not being able to login with an regular alias.
For someone who has no personal information in their publically available profile, the user dost protest too much, methinks. Really off-putting.
Why would you go this route?
Before asking such a question, one might check the FAQ section, where there’s a whole topic on Logging in to this Forum, which includes an in-depth analysis as to the whys and wherefores of not having an insecure local password stash, and instead relying on a major provider with huge paid staffs keeping passwords secure to handle the security, and use an internet-standard login OAUTH protocol to keep our site secure, and to allow the maintainers of the forum to not have to deal with security breaches. As is explained in the FAQ, if you have a propblem with sharing personal information, you are only sharing as much personal information here as you did to the OAUTH provider… so if you make a dummy/anonymous account with any of the OAUTH providers that allow anonymous accounts, and give non-personal information, then that’s all that the Notepad++ Community will have.
For a support forum that’s just disgusting
Because it’s so disgusting to admit to the public that you want to go by the alias “bubblan4” on this Forum. Oh, wait… that was completely your choice, and revealed no personal information.
If you don’t like the Community (not support team; none of us are paid employees of the non-existent Notepad++ Development Corporation), or if you find the choice of forum-software disgusting, that is a problem you can choose to deal with in whatever way you see fit… but please make sure that you abide by the expectations of users set out in the Community Forum documentation and FAQs.
Now I’m going to go back to ignoring this topic and the whole Boycott section of the Community; I am still not sure how your post made it into my “most recent” feed when I’ve done my best to tune my notifications in such a way that posts in the Boycott section aren’t supposed to notify me or show up in my “unread” feed. Hopefully I’ve fixed it again, so I can go back to blissfully ignoring the complainers.
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@donho said in You've a lot of reasons to hate Notepad++:
You’ve a lot of reasons to hate Notepad++
For its political positions
For its moral higher ground
For its new Plugins Admin
For its good taste humour in its Easter eggs
For its “Windows only” support
…So say fuck to Notepad++ here and only here.
I find this an amusingly self-aware post. As a professional developer the political stuff is a little awkward if we have to review the software BUT I only today realised N++ was a private project. I had just assumed it was FOSS and though it was a bit weird to take a stance. If it’s one person’s project they can do what they want, not like I paid for it!
