D is supposed to be neutral and about programing (page 2)

On Friday, 25 February 2022 at 14:29:44 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:

On Friday, 25 February 2022 at 13:22:19 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

Could the one who has put Ukrainian colours on the icon of the D page please remove it.

I cannot see any irregularities on dlang.org, and there are no traces of what you describe
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/commits/stable.
So if an unofficial logo has been served from dlang.org, it must have been put there (and reverted) by hand.

Last commit is 11 days ago.

Something changed by hand might be the case, but also might depend on who controls the server (in which the pages/images reside) which ultimately could in theory override/replace images. But logically who would change an image/logo for only a scant few hours?

There's a very small chance the image was downloaded corrupted (or using a corrupted cache of images stored) which could change any amount of the image in how it decodes. I recall weird results in half-downloaded jpegs before. Or they were looking at some other page entirely; But without a link or screenshot I'd say it's hearsay.

But i will agree with OP, D (well pretty much everything in my opinion) should be politically neutral.

February 25, 2022

Re: D is supposed to be neutral and about programing

Posted by Vladimir Panteleev
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Vladimir Panteleev

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On Friday, 25 February 2022 at 13:22:19 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

Could the one who has put Ukrainian colours on the icon of the D page please remove it.
It is completely inappropriate to put a POLITICAL message on the official web site.

Thank you.

On Friday, 25 February 2022 at 13:22:19 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:

Could the one who has put Ukrainian colours on the icon of the D page please remove it.
It is completely inappropriate to put a POLITICAL message on the official web site.

Hi Patrick,

I changed the icon. I've now reverted the change. I'm sorry.

What was changed: I implemented a small hack on websites on my personal server. Since I wrote the D forum, it's among the websites hosted on the server.
What was not changed: anything regarding the official D website, https://dlang.org/.
Why I did it: it's an issue that affects me directly and personally. In the interests of keeping things on topic I will avoid elaborating further. The hack was not meant as a "political message".
What will change: The hack is reverted; if you still see the icon, please do a forced refresh. I apologize for this unilateral change, it was selfish of me to do it without consulting with the D leadership. In the future I will be more mindful of the sensibilities of people around the world.
Regarding moderation issues: there was a bug in the way that forum moderation was handled, which I've now fixed. Apologies for that. No one is actually banned from participating.

On 2/25/22 08:51, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > reverted Finding this opportunity to thank you once again for everything you've been doing for the D community! Ali P.S. However, there is still no awesome Emacs D mode! :p Just kidding...

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