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<blockquote data-quote="Hacker News" data-source="post: 71910" data-attributes="member: 365">While browsing this GH issue[1] on my phone I noticed that some comments are collapsed. Apparently GitHub now requires users to be signed in to view them. That's yet another dark pattern employed by yet another webpage. A few days ago I wrote about Reddit[2]. It's really disturbing that the service which is absolutely foundational to the modern open source movement is becoming more and more hostile towards its users.PS I know there are alternatives like SourceHut, but unfortunately GitHub and GitLab are the mainstream and probably will continue to be the biggest OSS hosting providers.1 - <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/20041" target="_blank">https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/20041</a> 2 - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202034" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202034</a><hr />Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215401" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215401</a>Points: 12# Comments: 4<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215401" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hacker News, post: 71910, member: 365"] While browsing this GH issue[1] on my phone I noticed that some comments are collapsed. Apparently GitHub now requires users to be signed in to view them. That's yet another dark pattern employed by yet another webpage. A few days ago I wrote about Reddit[2]. It's [I]really[/I] disturbing that the service which is absolutely foundational to the modern open source movement is becoming more and more hostile towards its users. PS I know there are alternatives like SourceHut, but unfortunately GitHub and GitLab [I]are[/I] the mainstream and probably will continue to be the biggest OSS hosting providers. 1 - [URL]https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/20041[/URL] 2 - [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202034[/URL] [HR][/HR] Comments URL: [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215401[/URL] Points: 12 # Comments: 4 [url="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215401"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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