Comment by dang

Edit: actually it was standard moderation but in a bit of an unclear way - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26894033.

We made a mistake. I'm not sure what happened but it's possible that we mistook this post for garden-variety mailing-list drama. A lot of that comes up on HN, and is mostly not interesting; same with Github Issues drama.

In reality, this post is clearly above that bar—it's a genuinely interesting and significant story that the community has a ton of energy to discuss, and is well on topic. I've restored the thread now, and merged in the dupe that was on the front page in its stead.

Sorry everybody! Our only priority is to serve what the community finds (intellectually) interesting, but moderation is guesswork and it's not always easy to tell what's chaff.