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0 pointspalata2mo ago0 comments

> I can feel the frustation, nothing dramatic about expressing it

I think the "ridiculously dramatic" part is the whole love letter to GitHub, not the frustration.

And I think it is fair to say that it is ridiculously dramatic. Which is okay, of course, I'm not criticising here. Just like it would feel ridiculously dramatic (at least to me) if someone explained that they cried today when they stopped their subscription to Netflix in order to move to another service, because they love Netflix so much.

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nicr_222mo ago· 1 in thread

The difference here is _creative_ work vs consumption. Craftspeople like Mitchell feel passionately about the tools they rely on to build. Github has also been a social place for builders.

I don't think it's ridiculously dramatic to feel sad about great tools rusting or makerspaces closing...

palataOP2mo ago

Again, I am not criticising the feeling. It's okay to feel the way we feel.

I am just saying that when Mitchell mentioned it being "ridiculously dramatic", I think he was not talking about the frustration but rather about the fact that he cried about leaving GitHub.

It's okay to feel sad about something and to also feel that it's ridiculously dramatic to feel sad about it.

Thanks for the downvotes though.

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