mmegger
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
This is not the case here. The teams responsible for DigitalOcean’s tutorials were completely removed in this round of layoffs. Not only is is unlikely CSS Tricks won’t be migrated, there may never be another new tutorial again.
Comment · 4 years ago
The year that this blew up the DigitalOcean team (I was on this team) met with nearly 100 open source maintainers over the course of weeks to ask their opinions on Hacktoberfest and how we could make it better. We opened up these roundtables to anyone who would attend, and had great attendance from major projects such a Kubernetes, CPython, Gentoo, and others. We took all of this feedback and immediately changed the program. Many maintainers in the community have lauded us for these changes both publicly and in private.
We did listen to the community and we made the program better.
Comment · 4 years ago
Changes were enacted in 2020 to make the program less spammy. Hacktoberfest is now opt-in and repeated spammers are permanently banned. The amount of spam PRs dramatically dropped after this change was implemented.
That's corporate speak for removal. Based on the speed in which this announcement was made in regard to the investigation into misleading financial statements https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/21/272896... it's pretty obvious.