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https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/commit-activity You can see that React development essentiall

https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/commit-activity You can see that React development essentially stopped May 24 and then got sort back to normal by the end of June, but it's still a bit below normal levels. I think the cause was that many React devs became fed up with Facebook. I don't know how many actually quit though.

swyx 6y ago
a couple did. but digging any further goes a little over the line into stalking territory as far as i am concerned, even tho a lot of this is publicly available information. as long as react continues to be in active development i dont think its worth prying too deep into sensitive stuff like this (not likely to get a "real" answer anyway)
- tobr 6y ago
  On the contrary, it’s outrageous that this industry doesn’t have any journalists willing to investigate the power these people have over our community and who they are affiliated with. Whenever you hear them interviewed on a podcast or anywhere else, the hosts seem to be fawning and giving out fist bumps. And I’m not so sure Facebook representatives have any ground to stand on when it comes to expectations of privacy.
- sneak 6y ago
  > but digging any further goes a little over the line into stalking territory as far as i am concerned, even tho a lot of this is publicly available information. Collecting publicly available information from the web to assess the state and power structure of one of the most widely-used projects on the web is not in any way whatsoever "stalking". It's not even "sensitive" if it's publicly available.
  - hitekker 6y ago
    People are unfortunately uncomfortable with questioning the elites of their own communities.
    - swyx 6y ago
      i can and will do it, if warranted. but also sometimes its just none of my dang business. you know?
      - hitekker 6y ago
        My comment refers to people in general, myself included. But I guess it still hits a little too close to home, huh.
  - earthboundkid 6y ago
    Yes, and presumably the employees who did quit, quit because they believed FaceBook crossed an ethical line. I dunno, they could have gag order contracts or something keeping them from talking about it, but I bet they'd still like to see FB's ethical problems exposed if they thought they were so bad they needed to quit.
Shorn 6y ago
I had assumed the slow-down was a result of resource-drain on two fronts: 1) Major updates of the actual Facebook product - I could see a lot of React resources being pulled into that. 2) Fiber implementation getting bogged down in the reality of implementing a production-ready cooperative multitasking scheme in the browser environment. I have no evidence for that though - pure assumption.

swyx 6y ago

a couple did. but digging any further goes a little over the line into stalking territory as far as i am concerned, even tho a lot of this is publicly available information. as long as react continues to be in active development i dont think its worth prying too deep into sensitive stuff like this (not likely to get a "real" answer anyway)

tobr 6y ago
On the contrary, it’s outrageous that this industry doesn’t have any journalists willing to investigate the power these people have over our community and who they are affiliated with. Whenever you hear them interviewed on a podcast or anywhere else, the hosts seem to be fawning and giving out fist bumps. And I’m not so sure Facebook representatives have any ground to stand on when it comes to expectations of privacy.
sneak 6y ago
> but digging any further goes a little over the line into stalking territory as far as i am concerned, even tho a lot of this is publicly available information. Collecting publicly available information from the web to assess the state and power structure of one of the most widely-used projects on the web is not in any way whatsoever "stalking". It's not even "sensitive" if it's publicly available.
- hitekker 6y ago
  People are unfortunately uncomfortable with questioning the elites of their own communities.
  - swyx 6y ago
    i can and will do it, if warranted. but also sometimes its just none of my dang business. you know?
    - hitekker 6y ago
      My comment refers to people in general, myself included. But I guess it still hits a little too close to home, huh.
- earthboundkid 6y ago
  Yes, and presumably the employees who did quit, quit because they believed FaceBook crossed an ethical line. I dunno, they could have gag order contracts or something keeping them from talking about it, but I bet they'd still like to see FB's ethical problems exposed if they thought they were so bad they needed to quit.

Shorn 6y ago

I had assumed the slow-down was a result of resource-drain on two fronts: 1) Major updates of the actual Facebook product - I could see a lot of React resources being pulled into that. 2) Fiber implementation getting bogged down in the reality of implementing a production-ready cooperative multitasking scheme in the browser environment. I have no evidence for that though - pure assumption.