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I love the move to scoped packages.

I encourage everyone to switch to scoped packages if possible, it gives you much more freedom over your name, reduces the chances of typosquatting causing your users problems, and can even help get your name out there a bit more!

It's a no brainer, and I'm surprised more people don't use them.

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Yeah I was hesitant due to not that much support in the community, etc but after hitting the typo-squatting issue over like 5 times (you'd think once would be enough) it just had to be done. There are other issues for our plugin ecosystem since people fail to know which ones are from us and which are just another plugin.

I think before they were part of the paid npm plain or just not enough information about them, and the questions on what being an npm org meant, etc. Maybe Babel switching to them will help move that forward even?

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