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aetataureate
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It does feel like some folks have a hard time locating the space in between "attack and dethrone @staff" and "criticism of anything on cohost is evil, actually"

You can love it here and want this place to succeed, while also talking about the aspects of it that are fucking busted. Similarly you can appreciate @staff's work and respect them as human beings and workers without needing to protect them from the hazards of ::checks notes:: people wanting to be able to actually use a core accessibility feature.


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i don't think they said that, but as you've referred to this it seems like you've slightly altered their sentiment several times to make it easier to be mad at, and that is the sort of energy people associate with twitter

you can think someone said something boneheaded without needing to turn it into the worst possible version of that thing

I mean, I quoted it on the other post and am talking about it here, which does not seem like several times I guess. But I'm curious what you think they meant, if not that working on alt text would hurt the bottom line of the website right now, which I think is what they did say??

it seemed like they were saying "accessibility features will not immediately improve revenue whereas features like subscriptions will", in the sense that there is an extremely finite amount of dev time to allocate and some amount of triage is necessary

(and granted this seems like inventing reasons for staff that don't quite make sense; like, asks are not a direct moneymaker either)

whereas the way you refer to it makes it sound more like "accessibility features will be an active detriment [and therefore should perhaps never be done??]" and that's not... really the same thing

likewise i don't think "alt text likers" is necessarily dismissive

this feels wild because you're doing to me what you said i did to them. they said, while telling me that staff had too much on their plate to work on accessibility, that their focus instead was "to make the website money" -- that does directly imply that accessibility is not moneymaking and therefore, right now, is the opposite of a help. a hindrance, that should not be a priority.

like, you seem to think i decided (?) to be mad at this instead of that it actually did make me mad, because it is thoughtless and ableist and weirdly teacher's pet mentality about the people who run the site. they should have prioritized this a year ago. this version of the feature should never have shipped at all.

i don't doubt that it made you mad. i don't even think it's unreasonable to be mad about. i just also think you're citing it in a way that makes it easier for other people to be mad. surely there's a meaningful distinction between "a hindrance" and "not helping solve this looming existential problem".

or maybe not. i don't know. this conversation feels like it's verging on generating all new communication problems

yeah i'll be honest that i don't understand why one of our first interactions (you didn't even comment on my strawberry jam entry!) is this of all things, but i am getting that you don't like me and that's fine, i'll stay out of your stuff

here's their exact quote, in case people want to see that and didn't see the other post

"their main focus is to make the website money before they can work on things that help people but don't make them money like working on the compose ui and stuff idk"