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This is just Forbes blogspam of the original blog post: https://medium.com/@tedlivingston/moving-forward-boldly-with... It was submitted to HN here, and I noted that it would be unlikely to get attention because of its title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21055034 HN's strict title rules encourage submitting blogspam that writes sensationalized titles like this (and it's even been dialed back now).
TON whitepaper was full of so much nonsense that its hard to even comprehend any alternative basis in reason outside of "moneygrab!"
One and a half year ago, I built an (unofficial) bot, Ragebot [0], that would function as spam protection for the many bot accounts joining public Kik groups. The project took off and was added to hundreds of thousands of groups by Kik users. Two days ago, Ted Livingston announced the closure and Kik has been chaos throughout ever since, with people adopting Discord and Telegram to retain their online friend circles.…
I'm confused. Not a Kik user, but how are public groups a unique feature (compared to say Subreddits)?
Sorry but it’s hard for me to believe an app with so many users is just going to close down for a reason that’s largely tangential to the strength of its core business. It’s much more likely this is a ploy to get the SEC or other litigating parties to settle for a smaller amount.
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At least they brought attention to how bad it was to rely on NPM. If anyone doesn't remember, this is how the whole left-pad issue started: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-np...
Off-topic, but pretty crazy that the timestamp of that blog post doesn't appear until the end, so you can be reading an article from 2016 and not immediately know that this was a few years ago.
Not defending, just contextualizing, and clarifying that NPM didn't make that specific design choice. Obviously, they chose to use tumblr, though.
... but will it take out a bunch of NPM packages with it?
At least they brought attention to how bad it was to rely on NPM. If anyone doesn't remember, this is how the whole left-pad issue started: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-np...
The weird thing about Kik was that everyone I met that used it thought it had some sort automatic message deletion like Telegram, but I don't think it did. Old messages would stay forever.