[kvz]

Disclosure: I work on a ‘competing’ file uploader.

I’d like to thank Richard for the relentless efforts in pioneering this robust uploader. As a member of the Uppy team I have had the pleasure of a few encounters with him where he adviced us on e.g. saving directly to s3. I regard him more as a bright peer than a competitor, the ecosystem is large enough that we can afford that luxury. And I guess being in open source helps. Like, I’d dont suppose there’s a cutthroat mentality between Linux and FreeBSD contributors for instance :)

I can relate to the gh-issue fatigue becoming unbearable if you yourself no longer have a need, or a way to make it into a sustainable career. Worse: others are building businesses with your free product and make wild demands. Our team is fortunate enough that our own business can benefit from Uppy and so that we can allocate paid-for-time; but if all that effort has to come from your spare time, that could also have been spent on your family or making money to feed them.. the weight really adds up and wears you down.

So: Much respect for keeping it up for so many years, breaking new grounds, and being a big inspiration to us.

[kvz]

Of course it is Ray and not Richard, I am sorry. It is too late to edit now. Should know better than to post on the move :o

[upheaval7276]

This is Ray. I'm trying to lay low after archiving my project as I really just want to move on at this point, but I couldn't help myself and read some of the comments here anyway. Thanks for this, Kevin. Uppy is a fantastic library and I wish you and the rest of the Transloadit team the best. If I were looking for an enterprise-class upload library in the future, I'd absolutely choose Uppy at this point.