Nit: leftpad was not the issue. Kik was the issue. Npm incredibly mishandled the situation. I agree with the rest of your analysis. I think the community shoul

Nit: leftpad was not the issue. Kik was the issue. Npm incredibly mishandled the situation. I agree with the rest of your analysis. I think the community should fork npm repository. Anything of value is free and open source anyways. Why does node continue to support npm people?