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There is no "arms race", because the maintainers made no commits to the tiktok extractor for the past 8 months AFAIK. And twitch, a fairly important site, was

• jlgaddis 6y ago
  > ... twitch ... was similarly broken for three months due to maintainers' inactivity: The sense of entitlement here is absolutely unbelievable. -- I apologize if anyone is put off by this but I want to make sure that I perfectly clear: Developers and maintainers of open-source software DON'T OWE YOU A GOD-DAMNED THING.
  • Spare_account 6y ago
    Your tone is unnecessary; Apologising before breaking the conduct rules doesn't excuse the infraction. You're likely to get flagged and certainly aren't helping your 'side' of the argument. That said, you seem offended that someone might point out that an OSS product lacked timely updates. I don't understand your position, would you mind expanding on it?
  • Flowsion 6y ago
    How is this entitlement? They are responding to a claim: >The value of youtube-dl wasn't the software. It was the community. It was the ability to respond, within hours, to a change made on any given site. I.e. youtube-dl stopped working? No problem, file an issue, wait a day, solved. I don't think you need to preach to HN the value open-source maintainers provide. I think it's fair to assume most people on HN understand this.