Odd. I know that FreeBSD vendors or did vendor jemalloc in-tree as their malloc implementation

IIRC automatic controls important pieces of infrastructure that made a fork very difficult, and they also sabotage people who attempted to fork

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/matt-mullenweg-deactivates-wordpress-accounts-of-contributors-planning-a-fork/

Maybe?

I tend to think that they treated people shitty because they had no solution to questions that had already been answered, besides closing the question and marking it as duplicate. That the behavior of treating people like shit was a symptom, not the disease.

SO was incredible. I remember it very fondly circa 2011 thru 2013 while it was still growing and all the questions every thought of hadn’t been asked yet.

Obviously as time went on, the challenge of organizing and managing questions once a huge base of knowledge had accumulated, proved to be a much more difficult. I don’t think they ever solved that, and ended up rewarding toxic behavior.

It’s a shame.

I was going to say “Who?” until I looked at his bio, he helped start Django which I use. I need to go lay down.

But what about all those hours I spent torturing myself learning jq’s filter syntax, and jmespath ?