[swang]

1. any left-pad issue has been "eliminated" with the new rules npm (the company) has enforced.

2. you can already have your own version of thirdparty/left-pad by maintaining your own npm repository. i think what your parent post is referring to is facebook saying we're going to make our own public node/javascript package registry and you should publish to our registry.

doing this at the moment does nothing for the community other causing a lot of pain points. ex) now npm authors will have to publish to both registries so developers don't have to dig to find where it was published to, then they also have to hope that someone else didn't register the module name in one of the registries..

there is just too much splintering if facebook decided to become a competing registry rather than just using npm's registry and building on top of it.

[dmitriid]

> any left-pad issue has been "eliminated" with the new rules npm (the company) has enforced.

Only to resurface again: http://status.npmjs.org/incidents/dw8cr1lwxkcr

And it will, no doubt, resurface again and again and again