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I'm giving up — on open source - Blog (nutjs.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sustainable open source will stay a dream

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Damn

https://github.com/ayan4m1

You should do a better job updating your documentation so that people do not waste their time like I did. This change to closed source was announced where, exactly? All of your READMEs and documentation sites do not mention this. Very easy to be confused and very disappointing to me that this went closed-source.

Not only did you sell out, you also removed all the old versions that were released under an open source license so that others couldn't continue to use out-of-support versions. DISGUSTING.

tl;dr get off GitHub and npm entirely if you want to do the closed-source thing, kthx.

Sorry for this and others. That's a horrible experience.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And they justified with

I'm having a mental health crisis right now. What I said was wrong, I could not see that a few days ago. Take whatever you want from that. I am sorry. Please stop piling on now that I have removed everything. I am seriously ill and need to stop being involved in anything for several months.

(Leaving the end out as it can be triggering, talking about death)

I don't know what to make of this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Sounds like they're going through some shit and using toxic online interactions in an effort to try to ameliorate their internal struggles. It reminds me of a wounded animal lashing out.

Doesn't justify them, but it does give more context so people can respond accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

TBH I felt this is something they made up once it got more attention. If they had felt remorse, they might have come back to apologise or correct their mistake, sometime in the past two weeks I guess.

Who knows maybe they are really ill. Maybe they just made everything up.