tal_berzniz

Yeah... it actually works. Mostly for programmers who don't need bold/italic/headers and can make those out of ASCII chars

Wouldn't it make more sense to ask the community what they want to do? Without taking time from the original maintainers

If the alternatives are better, then devs will choose those solutions and "request" will fade over time. It doesn't have Promise support, so new projects will likely not choose it.

request is very simple and straightforward library that solves a very common issue.

Deprecating it causes a lot of work for every project out there. Either using request directly or indirectly.

I have a lot of respect for the maintainer, and he can choose to do whatever he wants with this module. That's his privilege.

However, the fact that he got "bored" with this solution, doesn't mean he needs to deprecate it. He can just stop working on it, and give ownership to someone else.

If it had a security issue and he is not going to ever update it, then that would deserve the deprecation so people should be warned.

Deprecating is a weird decision as there is nothing wrong with the "request" module. It doesn't lead to bad code, bugs or security risks.

It would be better to say this is the last version, except for security upgrades. These upgrades can be done by other maintainers that are assigned to the project.

Nothing... it's an idea and a website