I don't think Drew makes, or has made in this blog post on his personal website, any secret of the fact that he founded and operates Sourcehut.
> Ahh, $10/month for an alpha system
Actually, $5/month for the "Hacker" plan or $2/month for the "Amateur Hacker" plan. If you bothered to read that page rather than cherry picking, you'd note the following text in the third sentence of the page:
> You should pick the plan which best matches your financial needs and best represents the level of investment you have in sourcehut.
Ironic that one of the most honest and clear pricing pages that still exist in the cesspool of the Internet today yields such a dishonest interpretation from people like you...
It's been litigated to death in previous HN posts similar to this one, but some people actually prefer this kind of chat interface, rather than a million animated emojis, "rich" text formatting and metadata insertions...
Meanwhile, on SourceHut:
> Notice: sr.ht is currently in alpha, and the quality of the service may reflect that.
> Payment is optional for most features during the alpha, but some services require payment to use.
> Service Payment chat.sr.ht Required
Ahh, $10/month for an alpha system, whose latest blog dates back a few months, and details how they were taken offline for multiple days by a DOS.
And Mr DeVault should probably disclose in his blog post that SourceHut is, it seems, his.
Also, it's not about form over function, but are we comparing https://sourcehut.org/chat.png to Discord?