"Again"? Node has 7,660 forks and counting: https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node It's only notable if any substantial portion of the

"Again"? Node has 7,660 forks and counting: https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/nodejs/node It's only notable if any substantial portion of the community forks. The "previous" fork, Io.js, was key moment for Node. Because that was about fundamental technical questions of choosing between stability versus innovation. This appears to be yet another tweet-fight about CoC's. I can't imagine the community actually fracturing over this, but if it did then I would be fine with that. Let there be one set of conferences for the Douglas Crockford's of the world to discuss code, and another set of conferences for people to discuss Douglas Crockford.