[q3k]

<snip, i got my history wrong>

[jmillikin]

Arguably the root problem was lack of user namespacing; the incident would have been less likely to happen in the first place if the packages in question were named "~akoculu/left-pad" and "~akoculu/kik".

[hoppp]

That's right and probably a lot less people would have used left-pad because it looks like a package for a specific org.