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by grovulent 3569 days ago
One of the things I admire about the tech community is their willingness to just give away their code for free. This is a cultural fact that has underpinned such an enormous collective gain of everyone in the entire world that I get genuinely worried when I see people get that mad at open source maintainers.

I look at the scientific community and their inability to share their data with one another out of paranoia, publishing incentives etc... it's not just bad for science, it's bad for their community - their ability to enjoy each other's company on a daily basis.

So you know - I just feel you gotta be kind to open source maintainers. They didn't break anyone's app. They just released new code that you don't have to use.
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Klathmon 3568 days ago
Also, there is one massive part here that people are missing. From the release notes:

>We intend to keep supporting the 3.x branch indefinitely (published separately on npm to aid in migration), although there will likely not be any future major versions based on that code. 4.0 is the future, but we won't leave you hanging if you want to stick with 2.x/3.x.

It's not like they are pulling what Bootstrap did and just leaving everyone on the old version out to die. They are going to be supporting the 3.x branch indefinitely.

If you don't want to move, then don't! It's not going to suddenly explode, they will still accept changes for that branch, and bug fixes will still happen.

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timdorr 3568 days ago
In fact, 3.0 is still being developed. I just pushed out beta.1: https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/releases/tag/v...
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Klathmon 3568 days ago
Glad to hear it! I'd recommend putting more info on your support of 3.x/2.x in the FAQ linked here for when other places eventually pick it up.

The only reason I knew that was because I took at look at v4 yesterday when i was bumping up some of my dependencies before our freeze.

With the recent Bootstrap issues still fresh in many's minds, and the already bad reputation that many think the JS ecosystem is "doomed" to continue, it would help to really drive home the point that you aren't just hanging everyone out to dry.

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