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		nanodano on Jan 7, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many packages suddenly disappeared It was just a bad joke, but in all seriousness, that was a big wake up call for a lot of people about the tangled web of npm dependencies.

allover on Jan 7, 2018 [–]

Disagree, it was mainly a wake up call that npm shouldn't allow package deletion, a policy they changed as a result.

Every other 'these kids and their dependencies' opinion over the left-pad incident was highly subjective.

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