It was bad enough that we had to tell developers to trust some rando website to download a tool that we'd use to potentially plug in sensitive production usernames + credentials.

A link that looks like this:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht...

And now they've gone and made it worse by posting some new site and confirming the new link is real on their weird "hachyderm" social media post thing. Yeah, talk about a grey-beard get-off-my-lawn developer screaming at the wind and wanting to make it worse for themselves and their "brand".

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viraptor 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> on their weird "hachyderm" social media post thing

At this point tech people should understand what Mastodon is. For their own benefit. It's been years.

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closewith 5 days ago | parent [-]

10 MM MAU estimated. Not exactly foundational to online discourse.

	▲	viraptor 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		We're talking in context of Putty which is itself an extremely niche software. But if you think of just the software/tech people - Mastodon is quite an important place.

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CRConrad 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> A link that looks like this:

> https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.ht...

> And now they've gone and made it worse by posting some new site and confirming the new link is real on their weird "hachyderm" social media post thing.

And the actual text of https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ , where the new site is excplicitly linked and explained, didn't make it better? Maybe you just need Mommy to blow on your boo-boo?

Sheesh. Talk about yelling at clouds.