I would really have liked if the discussion about the fork would have branched off to a different discussion thread instead of being in the middle of this huge 1600 page thread.
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I agree. It is very hard to extract actual useful information from this thread, since there are too many pointless and annoying comments. The fork is something that is interesting, and it should be discussed separately, with a detailed TL;DR.
30 seconds.
Seriously.