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> contributors do More users != more contributors. As software gets more popular, you begin getting 10, 100, 1000, 1,000,000 users for every contributor. Th
by positron26 1y ago
> contributors do
More users != more contributors. As software gets more popular, you begin getting 10, 100, 1000, 1,000,000 users for every contributor.
This doesn't just affect non-programmers. We can't even police NPM.
People want it to be true so that it will be a talking point, but it's not true, and we need to find new talking points that align with facts that are evident outside the echo chambers.
- dismalaf 1y agoNPM is... special... It's up to platform owners to set standards and police. NPM's failures have nothing to do with open source as a whole.