Why We’re Removing Kik Messenger from Startup Timelines

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29 pointsbakztfuture4 comments

> Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if some NPM build crashed even at Kik’s own headquarters today

Humorously, this did happen. From the medium post by kik[0]:

I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. Through a long chain of dependencies, JSCS relied on left-pad@0.0.3, which was removed by the author yesterday. Our team was confused at the time as well.

[0]: https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...

That's a really good follow up article, thanks for posting it.

Reading the article it seems like the Kik emails were a little poorly worded, but not extremely so.

However, Azer's response is completely over the top. Clearly he has a take no prisoners attitude and scorched earth approach to things. Given that open source is also about collaboration, this response is kinda lame.

But Azer was right on the money.

A request, by definition requires a binary response.

A polite request, by definition, means that you can live (however badly) with either a Yay, or a nay.

Kik's attitude (whilst claiming to be polite), was that anything other than a "Yay", would be met with lawyers.

On this one, #IStandWithAzer.

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