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Neither of them had ownership of the project, so neither of them were responsible for the sale or benefited from it. They both simply dedicated a lot of time,

Neither of them had ownership of the project, so neither of them were responsible for the sale or benefited from it. They both simply dedicated a lot of time, care and skill to the project. It's really a shame to see what they spent so much time building and maintaining now being used as a platform to exploit people. I'm sure its extremely disappointing to both of them.

yesimahuman 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240229113710/https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/2834 https://web.archive.org/web/20240229113710/https://github.co... Is JakeChampion not the one who sold the project? His bio says he currently works at Fastly
Sephr 2y ago
Funnull claims that Jake Champion owned the project and transferred it to them as part of an acquisition agreement[1]. 1. https://x.com/JFSIII/status/1761385341951361182 https://x.com/JFSIII/status/1761385341951361182
- shaldengeki 2y ago
  The Internet Archive shows the progression of events pretty clearly. - In ~May 2023, the FT transferred it to Jake Champion: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill.io/v3/ownership-transfer https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill.... - In mid-Oct, the site stated it was "Proudly sponsored by Fastly": https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill.... - In November 2023, this was dropped: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill.... - In December 2023, JakeChampion made a sequence of edits removing his name from the repo and pointing to "Polyfill.io maintainers": https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/5f4fc040e09436371f70ffcebe47ca0e3cdccac0 https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/aa261a834b36131e8dbd20d725c6b5d773f736d9 https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... - In mid-February 2024, the polyfillpolyfill account was created on Github, and took ownership over the repo. So I think sometime between October 2023 and February 2024, JakeChampion decided to sell the site to Funnull. I think the evidence is consistent with him having made a decision to sell the site to _somebody_ in December 2023, and the deal with Funnull closing sometime early February 2024.

yesimahuman 2y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20240229113710/https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/issues/2834 https://web.archive.org/web/20240229113710/https://github.co... Is JakeChampion not the one who sold the project? His bio says he currently works at Fastly

Sephr 2y ago

Funnull claims that Jake Champion owned the project and transferred it to them as part of an acquisition agreement[1]. 1. https://x.com/JFSIII/status/1761385341951361182 https://x.com/JFSIII/status/1761385341951361182

shaldengeki 2y ago
The Internet Archive shows the progression of events pretty clearly. - In ~May 2023, the FT transferred it to Jake Champion: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill.io/v3/ownership-transfer https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill.... - In mid-Oct, the site stated it was "Proudly sponsored by Fastly": https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill.... - In November 2023, this was dropped: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill.... - In December 2023, JakeChampion made a sequence of edits removing his name from the repo and pointing to "Polyfill.io maintainers": https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/5f4fc040e09436371f70ffcebe47ca0e3cdccac0 https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/aa261a834b36131e8dbd20d725c6b5d773f736d9 https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... - In mid-February 2024, the polyfillpolyfill account was created on Github, and took ownership over the repo. So I think sometime between October 2023 and February 2024, JakeChampion decided to sell the site to Funnull. I think the evidence is consistent with him having made a decision to sell the site to _somebody_ in December 2023, and the deal with Funnull closing sometime early February 2024.