Mitchell HashimotoMar 9
Ghostty 1.3 is now out! Scrollback search, native scrollbars, click-to-move cursor, rich clipboard copy, AppleScript, split drag/drop, Unicode 17 and international text improvements, massive performance improvements, and hundreds more changes. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-3-0
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Show threadMartin Seeger

@mitchellh Please add a sentence like “Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.” At the start or end of the post.

Background: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/115683456728125923

Martin Seeger (@[email protected])

Dear OSS community on Mastodon, Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like: > “First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available" or > “Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!” or > “Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out” … and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician. Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have **no idea** what three quarters of these projects actually **do**. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum? So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a **tiny** bit of context. - Tell us what your software does. - Tell us why this release is cool. - Tell us what it requires to work. Example: > We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably. Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”. Yours truly, *Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements*

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Show threadMitchell HashimotoMar 9
@masek I'm linking directly to release notes, not a landing page. I don't think we need a "what is this thing" on every possible linked page when it's just a very very short click away. If that's too exhausting for someone, they can use another terminal lol. Its fine.
Show threadMitchell HashimotoMar 9
@masek (For example, the landing page, docs landing page, github landing page all include a blurb. The financial support page includes details about the org. I think it already very much holds hands)
Show threadMitchell HashimotoMar 9
@masek Also, this may come across as aggressive via text mediums I realize, but its not and I don't mean it that way.