When Google or MS does something shitty with their browsers I pretty much expect it from them and I'm partially insulated from their bad behaviors since I avoid using those browsers. When Mozilla acts badly though I'm often personally impacted.
I'm actually okay with them getting rid of FTP support (although I think leaving it there, but disabled by default was a better way to go - FTP links are pretty common out there) but I'm not at all surprised by the backlash.
Please elaborate. In excruciating detail.
>There are no reason to continue using ancient protocol forever.
You undermine yourself with statements like this. I explicitly asked for excruciating detail. This response essentially sums up to "because I said so".
...and it's empirically incorrect, too: You can find a ton of reasons where people need FTP today if you look through this discussion. So many that I'm not going to bother repeating them here.
There are times when HN seems to become very negative to a particular topic. In the past I’ve seen it with Kubernetes, systemd or GCP/AWS. I feel it’s that way with Mozilla/Firefox. More often than not, comments on Mozilla/Firefox are very negative then create a feedback loop of negativity. Obviously subjective, but just what I see