You're going to get some strong/rude reactions from "the other side," which is unfortunate. FWIW, as a reader I do find it genuinely more difficult to read. Capitalization serves a purpose for me, it's not arbitrary. It more clearly separates each sentence. I have to put in more work to read your thoughts without it. Anyway regardless, the rudeness sucks. Sorry on behalf of others who feel as I do.

this is very kindly written, thank you :)

frankly i don't want a larger audience, i didn't expect this to hit HN. i hadn't thought about it being harder to read for people in the project though, i'll do a poll on whether they find it distracting.

Perhaps you could have a little button to programmatically insert capital letters?

Then wouldn't dispensing with other rules of grammar be even more "freeing"? This is both a genuine and rhetorical question.

I guess it's like user interface design, where a cardinal rule is to be conservative, and not break user expectations unduly.

Of course UI patterns and language evolves, but the evolution of changes should probably be gradual, and done for a justifiable purpose. In this case, I'm not sure the stylistic choice actually adds anything to the clarity or beauty of the writing.

That's interesting take, thanks. I'd love to chat with you further on this issue, but this is neither the place, nor the time. Maybe I'll mail you about this in the soon-ish future if that's OK for you.

Cheers!

sure, i'm happy to chat more :) my email is on my website

>> so it's a good anti-asshole filter

Oh, that is really a screwed thought. You think all people that don't agree with your writing format are assholes?