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Publications like this really undermine and sour academia. It's the same thing that happened to journalism.


This feels strange. I always go to this page by default almost every day. I'm curious what the rest of the community thinks.


I don't usually use it daily, as I find more value in the weekly/monthly views. Though I would love to know what "Due to low usage" actually is. Should I be visiting it daily? Is my weekly/monthly visit meaning it is "low usage"?


Same here. This seems like a very odd decision. The trending tab is how I keep up to date with new frameworks and projects.


I'm curious what the motivation was for doing this now after supporting faker.js for 8+ years.

Also, isn't faker.js a completed project? What is there to maintain?


I guess this didn't help:

"I lost all my stuff in an apartment fire and am barely staying unhomeless. Lost access to most of my accounts. All precious metal is missing. If anyone could bless paypal@marak.com with a little cash it would help me from freezing on the street. lol."

https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272


Yeah, he appears to be in a bad way.

"If anyone can provide me a safe place to live or sanctuary please send DM. I'm looking for any friendly tribe to take me in. Send help yesterday."

https://twitter.com/marak/status/1323706909048905731


179 open issues as of now https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aopen+....

Looks like people want new data generation, new generation interfaces.


a programmer's work is never done. I imagine this is doubly true for anything js related. this project has 179 open issues and 85 open PRs, impressively almost as many issues as lines of code!


With 179 open issues, many of which seem related to bugs or out of date information, seems like there's quite a bit to maintain.


I am guessing it's the usual, either money or time problems. Could also be burnout I suppose.


Or a change of work environment. Too much paid work or no more JavaScript, who knows.

I've been offered to take over the development and maintenance of a small Ruby gem many years ago. I think I contributed a patch or something. I needed that gem in my current Rails project, probably not in the next one. Furthermore I don't work only with Ruby. So I refused.

Something like faker is useful in nearly every project and I contributed to the Elixir faker (my customer agreed to that, we needed it.) I learned a couple of things of the Elixir environment in the process. By the way, nice team and great tooling. Would I take over that package if offered? Again no, because I don't use Elixir full time and I'd rather drop another contribution whenever I need it. No time to work on fixes and look at issues not related to my work.


Or the apartment fire. See the comment above.


Those certainly create a nice narrative.


100% Agree. There are 6 ridiculous reasons why click-bait titles are broken.


If you just want a csv of all your playlists right now, instead of potentially "30 days". This repo works well.

https://github.com/pavel-aicradle/exportify


See also https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup. Looks like Exportify is more polish, though.


I'd bet that more than 95% of the US population would equate those two terms.


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