Previously: https://lemmyrs.org/post/175672
I originally had sources and data of the site public, hoping they would be interesting to study, aid in bug reporting, bring contributions, and make site’s algorithms transparent.
Instead, I got knee-jerk reactions about lines of code taken out of context. I got angry dogpiles from the Rust community, including rust-lang org members. I don’t need to endure such mudslinging. Therefore, the sources are no longer available.
As of right now bitcoin crate is not deprecated, instead libs.rs responds with error 502.
Would a link to crates.io be enough here?
I’d tend to say: probably not. It’s not that people don’t know that crates.io exists, right? So that’s not changing anything.
or want to find a new crate for some topic I go to lib.rs
And lib.rs will suppress the visibility of crates it thinks are “bad” and you’d never even know the crate existed to go look at the objective data on crates.io. Or let’s say a result comes up but it’s just an empty page with a link to crates.io: you won’t have enough information to know whether it’s worth going through the trouble of following a link to another site and a lot of people wouldn’t bother.
So I don’t think that change really solves anything.
And lib.rs will suppress the visibility of crates it thinks are “bad”
So does blessed.rs, and yet I never heard anyone ask blessed.rs to be more objective or include crypto - probably because it’s really obvious that blessed.rs is very opinionated, way more opinionated than lib.rs. I’m wondering if lib.rs could save some hassle by making its opinionated nature more clear, maybe by changing the top text from “Lightweight, opinionated, curated, unofficial alternative to crates.io.” to “Lightweight, opinionated, curated, unofficial. For objective, unopinionated data go to crates.io.”
Or maybe your point 2. from above would actually be the best solution - while I don’t agree that lib.rs has to provide objective data, people obviously expect it to, so, if it’s not too much work then it would surely be a nice way to solve some drama.
It’s not that people don’t know that crates.io exists, right?
I’d expect that the people who do know that it exists go there in the first place if they want objective data. Or go look on multiple sites if they are looking for a new crate for a relevant project (search using crates.io, search using lib.rs, look at blessed.rs, google) - at least that’s how I’m doing it.
