That&#x27;s the question we&#x27;re trying to answer now. We&#x27;ve been maintaining Capistrano with effectively zero data about our users since the project&#x27;s inception.<p>HN always has very extreme, and usually very negative reactions to any kind of tracking, integration, promotion, analytics, etc - and rightly so, with governments and corporations eroding our privacy at every step, we have to be on guard.<p>That said, this isn&#x27;t some coup to drive Capistrano into the hearts of it&#x27;s victims, it&#x27;s an experiment to see how to approach people and whether sitting on the front page of hacker news is a net benefit or a net loss.<p>My gut feeling is that the reaction has been fair. The thread title is unfortunately misleading because of OPs miscomprehension of the message displayed, and I don&#x27;t know how to reach the mods to request it be reviewed.<p>&gt; Maybe it is better to find other ways of reaching potential users than with a message during cap install.<p>Almost certainly, we have to experiment a little bit and see where the threshold lay.<p>I&#x27;m glad you&#x27;re getting value out of Capistrano, I hope it can continue, and that Cap will improve at a faster rate once we better understand how people use it and optimize for those cases.<p>Might I ask, how do you find the new default formatter?