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If you haven't seen the history of this topic outside of this thread then you wouldn't understand how frustrating it's been to handle. I'd just like it to stop being brought up (without also offering help or a solution). Seriously, every time we either post something on HN ourselves regarding Caddy or find a thread posted from someone else, one of the first thoughts is "oh boy, are we gonna have to find issue brought up again?" Lo and behold, it was brought up again today.

If you want another vote for how annoying the trailing dot issue is in general, hear it from no other than the author of Curl, Daniel Stenberg himself https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-...

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JimDabell|4 months ago

Elsewhere in this thread you point out that he mentioned it in February last year. That was 18 months ago! They weren’t rude or abusive.

That is not a grudge. That is not slander. That is not a hill to die on. That is not an attack.

This makes me wonder how many other minor bugs are dismissed by you as a grudge due to you overreacting like this. It makes me a lot less confident in your project.

It’s perfectly fine for you to say ”this is low priority and we have no plans to fix it in the immediate future”. What’s not fine is treating it like a personal attack because they dared mention it twice in 18 months.

kunley|4 months ago

> This makes me wonder how many other minor bugs are dismissed by you as a grudge due to you overreacting like this. It makes me a lot less confident in your project.

This makes me wonder how many other discussion threads are wasted by this kind of complaints.

Overreaction to (alleged) overreaction never solves the problem!

francislavoie|4 months ago

Caddy doesn't hit the front page of HN all too often. But when it does, this issue gets brought up by one of two people. That's why it's annoying. It's so predictable and so annoying. We've already said our piece on the topic repeatedly, being asked to repeat ourselves again is insulting to us. Because "this is low priority and we have no plans to fix it in the immediate future" is clearly not an answer for someone who cares about this issue and mentions it again.