I thought I’d read Pradyun’s post before, but now I’m not so sure. I’ll probably want to dig into it (again).
I’m not a huge fan of the threaded-short-message style of discourse (Twitter, Mastodon etc.) generally, and would much rather have had those points as a blog article. But Stargirl’s main points are well taken. I guess it’s worth directly linking the previous PDO thread that got mentioned in the replies there, as well as the other blog post that came up a few times (since in particular, pointing out “how everyone else is doing it” doesn’t explain why - or if - we can’t follow suit, but is a very useful starting point for analysis):