This is out and out ownage. Patreon has basically been Ashley Madison'd. Source code, internal dev documents, cron jobs, and the entire 13GB database is out.
I realize it's only one of your points, and not intending on cherry-picking.
> produces a podcast that profits from ad sales
There are different forms of ads. He's not saying that ads suck, and it wouldn't be a conflict of interest for him to do ad-reads on ATP while making an iOS content blocker.
Overcast also has a skip-fwd button that you can configure in sensible increments. I know I use it maybe 2-3 times per podcast episode.
Podcast ad-reads are incredibly effective, and I haven't heard one person complain about them.
There are good/better/best forms of advertising, none of which are punch the monkey, malvertising, and those that CPU hog, use your cell data, and drain your battery.
For me, I'll keep blocking on the web, going pee during a TV commerical, DVR skipping, podcast forwarding, etc.
"How do I know if I can trust the community feed (the packages on this site?) Until we have package moderation in place, the answer is that you can't trust the packages here. ..."
Their about page:
"Package moderation and package signing are planned to increase the security of the community feed. Bear with us, this is going to take time to get into place. ..."
However moderation seems to be implemented (at least putty is approved by a moderator), I see no signing in place. At least everything seems to be going trough https and they are going in a good direction.
I get the sense it's unintentional. This isn't how you want your launch to go. The impact on this project is large - SE, Reddit and GitHub.
It's not clear whether JA is leading the group's effort, but he's definitely the one speaking the most.
The group shouldn't have been surprised at the continued stonewalling. Perhaps they had a Plan B, perhaps we're seeing it or a hurried Plan C. In any case, I'd agree that the project is getting visibility and attention, but I definitely wouldn't have planned for this. It's too ugly.
Ironically, that wasn't an "ad hominem attack", it was just a plain ol' fashioned insult, which doesn't require a fancypants-sounding Latin label. But, you dismissing Gruber as an "Apple fanboy journalist" is a bit ad-hom.
Or, it would be, if this were a formal debate. Which it isn't.
Calling him an "Apple fanboy journalist" isn't an ad hominem attack unless you use that characterization to dismiss something he said. It's just an attack, and a pretty accurate one at that, if you follow his blog.
But this is totally unrelated to the immature behavior that he's showing about this whole Markdown drama.
I wasn't calling JG that, I was calling all those around him in the Apple tech press who also piled on with the insults like "jackass".
The point is that one side is name-calling and insulting the other, while the other side is trying to advance a technology for a large number of devs and internet users.
I'm just a commenter on HN with little skin in the game, how I conduct myself matters little in this debate. How the primary parties in this story act is important and revealing.
And for all their screaming, there has been barely an acknowledgement of the change. Quick to insult, a lot slower when it comes to acknowledging compromise.
My confidence is zero.