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The way the Rhombus / Racket community does libraries has to change. That whole package site has to change. Being a contributor on there exposes you to a steady
by threatofrain 1mo ago
The way the Rhombus / Racket community does libraries has to change. That whole package site has to change. Being a contributor on there exposes you to a steady stream of fraud garbage. There's nothing to promote the top libraries as the top libraries.
https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/?fam=Rhombus https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/?fam=Rhombus
- sorawee 1mo agoI agree that a ranking mechanism would be nice, but what do you mean by "fraud garbage"? I personally am not aware of any malicious package in the Racket ecosystem.
- fn-mote 1mo agoPerhaps they are referring to the fact that the package server does not hide the email of the contributor? Not that this is a complaint worth airing on HN. Solution: just block the alias that you use for the submission…
- soegaard 1mo agoThe email is obfuscated. https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/ And has been for a long while.
- threatofrain 1mo ago> Being a contributor on there
- sorawee 1mo agoAh, I see what you mean now. Yeah, that was indeed problematic. We kinda fixed this issue a while back by obfuscating emails (https://github.com/racket/racket-pkg-website/pull/88 https://github.com/racket/racket-pkg-website/pull/88), but it doesn't help with already scraped emails. Also, the raw emails are still technically readable if one knows where to look at.