Notepad++ has a bit of a history in releasing versions in support of various campaigns, ranging from a "Je suis Charlie" edition to a "Tiananmen June Fourth Incident" edition.
I remember one edition included an auto-typing feature, where a new tab would be opened, and content start typing into it, which frankly was quite alarming for an update of a piece of software that you've been using for a while...
I believe the typing content was itself the changelog for that particular release and the flak received by the author will prevent it from happening again in the future afaik.
I love it that they have a "this is how you can help link". I've read about so many issues that I would to get involved with, but there's I no mention anywhere oh you can actually do something about the problem!
Does this message only show in the release notes? It would be cool to display a link to this on startup, like with Vim and the ICCF-Holland charity in Uganda.
Thank you. Somehow is cool this days to write non-sense in tech forums. The Kurds are also a large ethnic group in Turkey, so is the author of Notepad++ will be adding a mention to them in the next release note? Native Americans in the US and Canada? Buryats in Russia? and the list goes on and on... but hey, I guess is too hard to do a little research before pretending to be cool.
"Somehow is cool this days to write non-sense in tech forums."
- Yes, that's what you are doing. Are about 1+ million of those groups you mentioned in concentration camps for just being from that group? No, so don't make such absurd comparisons.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and please don't break the site guideline against insinuations about astroturfing in threads. That's a major rule users need to follow here—otherwise the threads deteriorate severely.
I remember one edition included an auto-typing feature, where a new tab would be opened, and content start typing into it, which frankly was quite alarming for an update of a piece of software that you've been using for a while...