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Thank you for writing this akoculu.

I remember the incident and what stuck me most is how, for me, this was a clear example of a community (Javascript) that depended too much on dependencies (pun somewhat intended)

I don't know why so many people put so much blame on you. You unpublished a package with 11 lines of code [0]. I don't think you fully understood the frustration it would cause. And you mentioned that in the post.

> NPM didn't show usage stats, and there was almost no activity on Github. As a user, it was impossible to know the impact of unpublishing packages

The root cause imo isn't akoculu unpublishing the package. In my opinion that lies more in the over-reliance on dependencies, the npm policies and maybe also build systems not caching/vendoring code.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident#Backgrou...