I've lost the Purity Spiral / knitters thread but look at this

I’ve only seen supportive posts about Cassidy, slagging them off but overall being sympathetic to his mental health issues. It’s been quite surprising really as sockmatician got a massive pile on for objectively doing less harm and being far more gracious about his criticism.

I genuinely think it’s due to people not wanting to slag off a trans woman as they fear being criticised himself.

ooh very interesting blog... yes I'd seen the crazy cassidy stuff on instagram....

Casey, her future husband, put his computer science brain to this problem and the result was the launch of Ravelry in 2007.

Always the computer scientists, huh?

I wonder where knitters will go when Ravelry gets shut down.

Cassidy/Casey sounds like the type to go off in a massive huff and take down the whole site with them.

I was on Ravelry back in the day. It's a real shame to see what's happened there.

Right, married then. I still don't think I'd ever say that about DH (it sounds derisive to me) but maybe that's just their relationship.

Back in 2005 Jessica was very much involved in the knitting blogging community and was feeling very frustrated with not being able to keep track of the detailed information that bloggers were sharing about their knitting projects. Casey, her future husband, put his computer science brain to this problem and the result was the launch of Ravelry in 2007.

Casey is now Cassidy; the thlot plickens...

What is the relationship between Jessica and Cassidy? Because I feel like this "Cassidy was not in a state to be talking with people" is a completely inappropriate thing to say about a colleague.

Ravelry redesign that surprised me was that web designers don't learn anything about accessibility during their training.

It's really odd as my 15 yr old DD is covering this in what is really a very basic entry level module on Web design.

I knew I'd get the knitty- gritty (ha! see what I did there ) on ravelry here. Long time lurker, first time poster, gc, knitter, blown away by all the purity spirals in the knitting community when I got to grips with them.
Would love to know what Cassidy said..

Omg.
What on earth had Cassidy SAID?!

I think one of the things about the Ravelry redesign that surprised me was that web designers don't learn anything about accessibility during their training. They've had to hire a separate accessibility consultant.
I really think people should know by now not to use flashing images without needing any formal training.

oh it was magnificent - a local business I think a restaurant contacted her about doing a charity event with knitters she would provide yarn and there would be a tea etc. They came into her shop but she was very busy so asked them to email her a proposal. Which they did but without leaving off previous discussions with someone else about the even which basically said as it was stupid middle aged women they could do it cheaply whith shit tea and traybakes. She was magnificent on a podcast Shiney Bee's about it - how women business owners were treated badly as if thier businesses were just hobbies and women in general. How they should be grateful to get publicity... as she said if she wanted publicity she could get her tits out. She designed two colourways one was Shit Tea and Tray Bakes and the other Tits Out for charity whcih sold out incredibly well so she made the dye open source and other dyers made up their own charity colourways following her dyes I think some astonishing amount of money was made across the globe £500,000 I think.

Oops sorry, I remember now.
Yes, it was excellent.

I missed that, what was it?

on the otherhand the Shit Tea And Traybakes thing was brilliant....

That yarn sub thing raises so many questions.
Like, why can’t some people just grow up?
Why is the knitting culture online so bonkers when my rl crafting friends are lovely?
How can they seriously say all that with a straight face when all you have to do is google yarn substitutes and you will go straight to yarnsub.com? Do they not think it makes them look like idiots?

CountessAblaze does lovely yarn but her rebel punk schtick has always annoyed me. It’s basically flattering her customers by making them feel like they are doing something brave and radical when they buy wool. It’s expensive knitting wool, love, not rebellion.

metaphrically lighting a cigarette shapening my knitting needles and enjoying this shit show very much.... I know I'm a TERRIBLE person

Countess Ablaze has just done a raging post this morning on instagram stories about how furious she is about Cassidy (the trans one) not addressing their issues and how if they don't do disablilty then however much they bleat on about BLM and LBTQ+ they aren't inclusive... ooh

The claim is that people used Rav to work out yarn substitutions, and now that they can't access it (or won't access it out of solidarity) then designers need to be more inclusive and explain substitutions.
There are, of course, various websites that detail all kinds of substitutions, if people go looking. But it's just another virtue signaling flag for people to wave.