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NPM removes Disqus comments from blog after users disapprove NPM's resolution

46 points by dustinmoris ↗ HN
Did anyone notice that NPM removed the Disqus comments from: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-npm

The Disqus thread is still available, but comments have been closed: https://disqus.com/home/forum/npmjs/

Since the Kik fiasco I am losing all good faith in NPM now. The community clearly disapproved NPM's decision and instead of dealing with it in a transparent way they decided to just close and remove comments instead. Are they turning into North Korea now or what the hell is going on there?

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cia48621793
Because capitalism works, so are not open source?
progx
I wonder more about that there ridiculous article answer is not removed.
xavieryvez
In all honesty, this is a knee-jerk reaction. You cannot say with any level of confidence (and I know - being a hot-head myself) that -

a. the developer was not less than polite in handling the situation b. it was not an absolute knee-jerk reaction

I see nothing wrong with how it went down. Storm in a teacup.

jessaustin
Closing comments on controversial material is very often the best way to get on with life rather than wallowing in a pit of acrimony and indecision.
dustinmoris
I agree, sometimes closing comments is the best solution, especially when there is a lot of flame war going on, but in this case most of the comments were constructive feedback and there is a huge difference between closing comments and making them completely disappear.
progx
And some comments included alternatives to npm.
jessaustin
I've seen very few constructive comments about this entire tempest-in-teapot. Nothing horrible happened. A few devs who relied on fragile build techniques were momentarily inconvenienced. That's all that happened, and that seems like a "zeroth-world problem" to me. The less time npm-Inc. people spend on this, the more they can spend on literally anything else.

We who do not pay them money regularly are not their customers. I count myself fortunate that they do so much for me anyway.

AdrianRossouw
comments are a pointless feature on most blogs anyway.

they just create more work than they create useful content. Anybody who wants to discuss posts has multiple places they can do so now (HN, Reddit, Facebook, etc.)

szatkus
And what about people who went to the post directly (or by RSS)?
diegorbaquero
A lot of talking with no real solutions yet. IPFS/gx are a no-go to replace npm.
legutierr
> IPFS/gx are a no-go to replace npm.

Difficult and improbable to get to a critical mass, perhaps, but a no-go?

bigethan
Disqus comments are not good way to gather a representative view of the NPM community as a whole.

And, IMHO,comment threads aren't a productive place to have meaningful debate about this topic. If you care about this issue, they're all very receptive on twitter, email, etc. They're not shutting you out

staticelf
Bullshit, disqus is a perfect place to hold a debate as you can write more than 140 characters, answer others. I reached out to them on twitter but didn't get any response.
carlchenet
yeah, again a case of how dangerous for open source it is to rely on a company, not acting for the good of the community, but for its own good. To rely on a foundation is a much more reliable solution, like Python and the Python foundation.