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After the release of "Notepad++ v7.8.1 : Free Uyghur" Notepad++'s GitHub issues page is being flooded by trolls
Developing topic, don't see any news sources on it yet. Lots of pro-CCP troll issues being opened, as well as people starting to open issues going against the original trolls. (e.g. pro-HK protester messages)
Notepad++ website is DDOSed, here is archived version of the announcement.
Seems to be back with cloudflare anti ddos stuff.
Wow... good on the NP++ devs for doing something. I guess they never would have expected this kind of large reaction.
Here is an attempt to list the spam issues, but at the rate issues are being made, its much shorter than it should be.
Interestingly, there is some guy just advertising his YouTube channel by repeatedly opening issues.
IIRC it's just one guy who develops it?
This is why we cant have nice things.
I tried visiting the links to the Notepad++ website, but the site is down right now. Must be getting a lot of traffic from these Chinese commenter troll accounts.
A few English-language sites picking this up: The Verge, ZDNet, The Next Web