Gatekeeping Articles

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8/13/2026 • EN

Raising the Gates Is Not the Way to Improve the App Store

A critique of proposals to improve the App Store by giving established developers preferential treatment, arguing it's gatekeeping that harms innovation.

App Review App Store Apple Developer Program Gatekeeping Indie Developers

Federico Viticci

8/4/2026 • EN

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage

Explores why hobby programming communities are hostile to LLM usage, emphasizing craft, learning, and earned respect over generated code.

Chess Engine Community Culture Gatekeeping Hobby Programming llm

Michael Fogus

5/15/2026 • EN

Bye, Stack Overflow

A long-time Stack Overflow member explains why he left the platform after 15 years due to gatekeeping and lack of empathy.

Community Moderation developer experience Gatekeeping R Programming Stack Overflow

Yihui Xie

Gatekeeping Articles

Raising the Gates Is Not the Way to Improve the App Store

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage

Bye, Stack Overflow

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