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Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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The website (https://getferdi.com/), as well as the GitHub repo (https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi) and the Twitter account (https://twitter.com/getferdi), is gone. Log in to the service is not working as well, of course.

Does anyone know why this well-used open-source tool is gone?

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post #2

Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31014222 Website went offline about 30 mins ago, repo and twitter are also gone. Looks like it's been hacked or pulled?

Sorry, I must have written my post while you submitted.

However, some people are answering on my Twitter thread as well: https://twitter.com/FabianBeiner/status/1514231334977388548

Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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I have no idea why it happened, but there are still some forks [0] around, the last updated one I saw being [1], updated 5 months ago. The opencollective page [2] seems to be still up, with a balance of zero.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027131828/https://github.co... [1]: https://github.com/aarongraham9/ferdi [2]: https://opencollective.com/getferdi

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post #4

I have no idea why it happened, but there are still some forks [0] around, the last updated one I saw being [1], updated 5 months ago. The opencollective page [2] seems to be still up, with a balance of zero. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027131828/https://github.co... [1]: https://github.com/aarongraham9/ferdi [2]: https://opencollective.com/getferdi

The Open Collective page is archived by now.

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post #4

I have no idea why it happened, but there are still some forks [0] around, the last updated one I saw being [1], updated 5 months ago. The opencollective page [2] seems to be still up, with a balance of zero. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027131828/https://github.co... [1]: https://github.com/aarongraham9/ferdi [2]: https://opencollective.com/getferdi

The Open Collective page is archived by now.

Strange =/ I still have it open, with the last $96.71 USD withdrawal 11 days ago. Can't find much more about what happened.

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Open Collective page is archived by now.

Strange =/ I still have it open, with the last $96.71 USD withdrawal 11 days ago. Can't find much more about what happened.

The founder of Ferdi has deleted all his accounts (GitHub, Twitter, Instagram) etc. as well. Let's hope nothing bad happened here.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strange =/ I still have it open, with the last $96.71 USD withdrawal 11 days ago. Can't find much more about what happened.

The founder of Ferdi has deleted all his accounts (GitHub, Twitter, Instagram) etc. as well. Let's hope nothing bad happened here.

Apparently ferdi started disappearing a while ago? https://twitter.com/EggermontRomain/status/14837540947246243...
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