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You cannot see the last uploaded packages of NPM because Microsoft deleted this feature. Most probably to steal software...

allnulled on April 27, 2020

Yes, folks. The farm is real. Notice how you will not be able to see the very last packages uploaded to NPM, unless you knew already that they exi...
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Tobias SN

I fail to see how not being able to see the newest packages uploaded will help Microsoft steal software. I sure don’t find NPM packages by going through the absolute newest ones, and I doubt anyone else does. And how can they even steal software that’s open source?

This honestly sounds like one of those conspiracy theories where the only evidence is what the person behind it believes and not actual facts.

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allnulled

So, you agree with the strategy to block progress. Well, it is enough for you today, kid.

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Tobias SN

I don’t see how it blocks progress, but that doesn’t mean I believe in doing so.

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allnulled • Edited

Sure. Imagine that you decide the visibility of all the software created for a programming language. I think that the scenario is self-explanatory.

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Tobias SN

So? People can still find packages, and there are other means of discovering them.

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allnulled • Edited

They should have no right to ofuscate the finding of open source of such an important repo like NPM. You are accepting they do. Law should interfere, though, because this is called monopolization, and it is illegal.

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József Sallai
  1. Your profile picture goes very well with this post.
  2. Have you, perhaps, tried to log in? i.imgur.com/tSkH4gT.png And before you ask, npm looked exactly the same months before Github bought it :)
  3. Today's Microsoft is not the same as the one from 10-15 years ago.
  4. Conspiracy theories are dumb.
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allnulled • Edited

If I login, clever boy, they can easily filter what to see and how.

Or have you, perhaps, confirmed they do not "customize" contents, as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and everyone does?

Yah, we all very clever. Conspiracy is for losers, for locos.

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allnulled • Edited

PD: the picture is not about conspiracies (?), is part of the US dollar bill.