I think this is the biggest irony of it: the kik package, which kik where so desperate to have, is basically sweet Fanny Adams.
Also, Kik turn out to be negligent and pretty scummy. There was some controversy with them involving crypto, but the main thing I remember about them is that Kik is rife in terms of trading pornography, including child pornography, as discussed on this Darknet Diaries episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/.
So, from that point of view, I quite enjoy that Azer Koçulu told them to fuck off.
>Also, Kik turn out to be negligent and pretty scummy.
turns out?
they threatened a pre-existing naming collision with legal action and bullied the platform first into forcing the name to be theirs, and then afterwards by crying to npm until their software tests passed again.
The kik user page almost says it all.
https://www.npmjs.com/~kikinteractive
One person in the company thought this would be cool to be on NPM, then ... the lpad story.
bartread|8 months ago
Also, Kik turn out to be negligent and pretty scummy. There was some controversy with them involving crypto, but the main thing I remember about them is that Kik is rife in terms of trading pornography, including child pornography, as discussed on this Darknet Diaries episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/.
So, from that point of view, I quite enjoy that Azer Koçulu told them to fuck off.
serf|8 months ago
turns out?
they threatened a pre-existing naming collision with legal action and bullied the platform first into forcing the name to be theirs, and then afterwards by crying to npm until their software tests passed again.
they began scummy.
manuhabitela|8 months ago
Bengalilol|8 months ago