[lucideer]

I didn't find the actual content of the blog post particularly informative in itself, but there's plenty of indication that this is not just someone forking to submit a patch.

- https://github.com/node-forward is an organisation, not an individual and has put up various repositories centering around the forking effort.

- They have set up a website, http://nodeforward.org/ - which indicates (albeit with scant detail/background) that this is an independent effort to improve node.

- as zzmp pointed out, there is a fair bit of discussion around indicating some political discontent: https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/7