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🎭 Drama Archive

This is a curated collection of "dramatic" GitHub interactions.

Actix

actix/actix-web

Albertodemichelis

albertodemichelis/squirrel/pull/67

Alex313031

Alex313031/thorium
- Chrome fork with Windows 7 support includes furry porn in chrome:/// pages for whatever reason.
- issues/463
- issues/468

Ambv

ambv/black/issues/118
- A heated debate erupts over Black's strict formatting rules, with users arguing about code style enforcement and the project's "opinionated" approach. The thread becomes a battleground for code formatting philosophies.

Audacity

audacity/audacity/pull/835,
- ghostarchive
- Audacity maintainers propose adding Analytics to the open-source audio editor, sparking immediate backlash from privacy-conscious users.

Angular

angular/angular-cli/issues/1252
- A long-standing issue where users complain about the CLI's handling of dependencies and build output.

Ansible

ansible/ansible/issues/10530
- Users are surprised by the appearance of "cowsay" ASCII art in Ansible output, enabled by default if the cowsay binary is present.

Ant Design

ant-design/ant-design/issues/13098
- A Christmas-themed easter egg in the UI library triggers a request for a prop to disable it.

PhantomJS

ariya/phantomjs/issues/15345
- A new maintainer announces his suspension of PhantomJS development.

ASP.NET

aspnet/Home/issues/2022
- ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages dropped support for .NET Desktop.

Atom

atom/tree-view/pull/804
- A pull request aimed to restore single-click file opening in Atom's tree view.
atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588 (archive: 1, 2)
- Atom Minimap package integrated Kite, an AI-powered coding assistant.

AUTOMATIC1111

AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
- issues/6359 (archive.vn) (archive.org)
- Users discovered that many Black artists were categorized under the letter "n" in the project's artists.csv file, sparking accusations of racism and exclusion.

Ayo.js

ayojs/ayo/issues/36 (archive.ph) (archive.org)
- Ayo.js forked from Node.js.

Badges

badges/shields/pull/9474
- A new contributor attempted to add a Bazel logo to Shields.io.

Bitwarden

bitwarden/clients/issues/11611
- Bitwarden's desktop version 2024.10.0 introduced a proprietary SDK, making it impossible to build the client without it.

Bower

bower/bower
- /issues/1102
- /pull/1748
- Bower's first-run prompt asking for anonymous usage reporting disrupted automated workflows.
bower/bower/pull/1748
- Bower's LockFile feature was proposed, aiming to introduce dependency locking.

Logary

causiq/logary/issues/345
- Logary introduced a licensing model that required commercial IIS/Kestrel users to pay fees, sparking debate over fairness and F# ecosystem support.

Chrisaljoudi/uBlock

Ownership transfer/donations drama
- /pull/1517
- /issues/1153
- A contributor accused the maintainer of soliciting donations for work done by others.

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/51079

Cloudflare/Wildebeest

cloudflare/wildebeest/issues/303,
- archive.ph,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive,
- freezepage
- Cloudflare's embrace-and-extend Fediverse software posts private messages to the local public timeline. Cloudflare maintainers have flagged several comments that go into technical detail about the bug as spam.

Crablang/Crab

crablang/crab/issues/14
- Cataclysm-DDA added an option to switch gender mid-game, sparking debate over whether it should be locked behind debug or an autodoc procedure.

CVarisco/community-story

CVarisco/community-story/pull/1
- PR has been deleted and no archive is available.

Daeuniverse/Dae

daeuniverse/dae
- Project maintainers made a bot that automatically closes reported issues if the issuer didn't star the repo.
- /issues/368
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691652

Deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM

deepseek-ai/deepseek-llm/issues/51
- User brought up the pro-china political bias of the LLM, causing a flamewar in the comments.

Dear-Github/Dear-Github

dear-github/dear-github/issues/107
- GitHub's Code of Conduct was criticized for supposedly being racist and sexist.

Delgan/Loguru

Delgan/loguru/issues/563
- Loguru's use of pickle for exception serialization was flagged as a security risk by a user's company.

Django

django/django/pull/2692
- Django replaced occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower.

Docker

docker/docker/pull/31075
- Docker switched to a YY.MM versioning scheme, sparking debate over semantic versioning and release cadence.
docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910
- Docker required users to log in to download Docker CE.
docker/for-mac/issues/1120
- Docker users requested the ability to download old releases, citing issues with newer versions and the lack of an official archive.

Doktornotor/Pfsense-Still-Closedsource

doktornotor/pfsense-still-closedsource
- A repository was created to document claims that pfSense falsely advertises itself as open-source, arguing that key components are not publicly available.

Dominictarr/Event-Stream

dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116,
- archive.ph,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive.org
- Malicious owner takeover of npm package (@right9ctrl)

Dotnet

dotnet/cli/issues/3093
- .NET Core's telemetry feature was criticized for being enabled by default.
dotnet/csharplang/issues/993
- A proposal suggested creating a Chinese version of C#, F#, and VB.
dotnet/maui/issues/35
- .NET MAUI's name clashed with existing projects Maui Linux and MauiKit
dotnet/roslyn/pull/3507
- Roslyn removed occurrences of the term "whitelist" from its codebase, replacing it with alternative terminology.
dotnet/roslyn - Tabs vs. spaces drama
- issues/24031 ** VS2017express replaced tabs with spaces despite user settings.
- issues/68873 ** Pressing Tab after certain keywords in Visual Studio caused unintended code changes
dotnet/runtime/issues/27939
- Tuple member naming conventions in .NET were debated, with discussions on whether PascalCase or camelCase should be used.
dotnet/runtime/issues/92849
- Math.Round failed to round 0.50 values correctly
dotnet/sdk/issues/22247
- Hot Reload was removed from dotnet watch, making it exclusive to Visual Studio

Dotnet-Foundation/Home

.NET Foundation ReactiveUI PR drama
- dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/39
- reactiveui/splat/pull/778
- dotnet-foundation/Home/discussions/40
- The .NET Foundation's Executive Director merged a PR in ReactiveUI's Splat project without maintainer approval.

EpicGames/Signup/pull/24
- Notification spam of 400k GitHub users due to tagging @EpicGames/developers on GitHub
- ycombinator

Facebook

facebook/react/issues/10191

Facebookresearch/Llama

facebookresearch/llama/pull/73,
- archive.ph,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive
- Summary:
  - Meta's LLaMA is a 65-billion-parameter large language model.
  - The Register reported that "someone on 4Chan posted details on how to obtain the whole model via peer-to-peer file sharing, and eventually instructions on how to download it all were published on GitHub." on March 8, 2023. (source: The Register)
  - The Guardian reported, "Initially posted to 4Chan, a link to the BitTorrent mirror of LLaMA eventually made it to GitHub" on March 7, 2023. (source: The Guardian)
  - A GitHub user opened a pull request containing the magnet link originated from 4chan /g/. (source: pull/73)
- Journalism:

Golang

golang/go
- /issues/21956 ** A proposal suggested removing the Google logo from the Go website
- /issues/33021 ** A user advocated for moving Go's development workflow entirely to GitHub.

Google/googletest

google/googletest
- /issues/1660 ** Google Test's documentation was criticized for being unclear
- /issues/1666 ** A user described Google Test as difficult to install and configure.

GoogleCloudPlatform/Click-to-Deploy

GoogleCloudPlatform/click-to-deploy/pull/209
- A pull request proposed replacing "slave" with "agent" in Google Click-to-Deploy.

Greatsuspender/Thegreatsuspender

greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1175
- The Great Suspender's original maintainer announced a change in project ownership, leading to concerns about the new owner's identity and about potential malware.

Homebrew

Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/24654 (archive: 1, 2)
- Homebrew user questioned whether Apache httpd should be a dependency for PHP.
Homebrew/homebrew-services/issues/151 (archive: 1)
- A Homebrew user requested finer control over starting and stopping services, arguing that the --all flag was too broad and led to unintended dependencies being launched.
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/50683 (archive: 1)
- A Homebrew user questioned the removal of the rtorrent formula.

Lllyasviel/Stable-Diffusion-Webui-Forge

lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge/discussions/169
- ComfyUI (Stable Diffusion frontend) devs accuse Forge (another SD frontend) of using their code, license drama ensues.

Indutny/Node-ip

indutny/node-ip - CVE drama
- github/advisory-database/pull/3504
- socket.dev/blog/node-ip-maintainer-restores-github-repo-after-archiving-due-to-overblown-cve-rating
- A GitHub Advisory Database entry flagged the NPM IP package as vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks.

Iperov/DeepFaceLive

iperov/DeepFaceLive/issues/41
- A user argued that DeepFaceLive should cease development, claiming the technology is primarily used for scams and deception.

Irungentoo/Toxcore

irungentoo/toxcore/issues/1227
- An issue is opened that criticized the management of the Toxcore repository.

Jashkenas/Underscore

jashkenas/underscore/issues/1805
- A new update version 1.7.0 - introduced breaking changes without a major version bump.

Jdm-Contrib/Justdelete.me

jdm-contrib/justdelete.me/issues/86 (archive: 1)
- JustDeleteMe fork mass-tagged users who had starred the original repository, asking them to support the new project.

Jguer/Yay

Jguer/yay/issues/496
- An issue is opened about removing packages with Yay

Joyent/Libuv

joyent/libuv/pull/1015
- A pull request proposed replacing a gendered pronoun with a neutral alternative in Joyent's libuv repository.

Jquery/Download.jqueryui.com

jquery/download.jqueryui.com
- /issues/359
- /issues/390
- jQuery UI Download Builder encountered an Error 502 (Bad Gateway) when users attempted to download files.

JuliaLang/IJulia.jl

JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/issues/398
- A user reported that Pkg.add("IJulia") failed due to BinDeps errors and calls the developer an "amateur".

Katharostech/Bevy_retrograde

katharostech/bevy_retrograde/issues/1
- Users questioned the Katharos License, arguing that its religious alignment and legal ambiguity posed adoption and contribution risks.

Keepassxreboot/KeePassXC

keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725
- A Debian package change removed browser integration from KeePassXC

Kenwheeler/Slick

kenwheeler/slick/issues/681

Kmmbvnr/Django-Jenkins

kmmbvnr/django-jenkins/issues/349

Kraih/Mojo

kraih/mojo/issues/656

Ksh93/Ksh

original ksh kinda blew up - ksh fallout.
original ksh rewound.
ksh-community stalled.
ksh93 seems to be active now though.

Ldapjs/Node-Ldapjs

Developer of a Node library calls quits after receiving an email reminiscent of Xbox Live chat.
- /commit/8ffd0bc
- Discussion: Hacker News, 4chan

Lerna/Lerna

Marak/Colors.js

The maintainer of colors.js and faker.js intentionally corrupted the code of his libraries, breaking many projects using them

Mdn/Yari

mdn/yari,
- archive.ph,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive
- issues:
  - /issues/9208, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive (locked as too heated)
  - /issues/9230, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
- Summary:
  - The Register wrote,
    
    "Mozilla Developer Network, a widely used technical resource for web developers, this week introduced an assistive service called AI Help."
    
    in July 2023. (source: The Register (2023/07/03))
  - A GitHub user, @eevee, opened an issue and wrote,
    
    "MDN has generated a convincing-sounding lie and there is no apparent process for correcting it"
    
    in July 2023. (source: /issues/9208)
- Journalism:

Microsoft

Microsoft/Terminal/issues/10362
Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/3622
Microsoft/vscode
- /issues/32405
- /issues/54261
- /issues/191229
  - Summary: A Chinese company created a fork of VSCode named CEC-IDE, but claims all credit done for it as a "Chinese Home-grown IDE", violating the MIT license.
Microsoft/vscode - Santa hat drama
- issues/87268
- issues/87440
microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1114
microsoft/vsmarketplace/issues/1168
Microsoft/web-build-tools/issues/673

Mishoo/UglifyJS2

mishoo/UglifyJS2/issues/2054

Moment/Moment

moment/moment/issues/1407

Moq/Moq

Privacy issues with SponsorLink

Moxystudio/Node-Cross-Spawn

moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/102

MrGlockenspiel/Activate-Linux

MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux/issues/138

MrMEEE/Bumblebee-Old-and-Abbandoned

MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123

NanoAdblocker/NanoCore

Ownership transfer drama
- https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362
- https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/jo9wxn/open_source_development_the_fall_of_nano_defender/

NationalSecurityAgency/Ghidra

NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/371

Nextcloud/Android

Unintentional synchronization of all files
- nextcloud/android/issues/13738
- nextcloud/android/issues/13872
- Summary:
  - An upgrade to the Nextcloud Android app causes all files on the remote server to be downloaded. This results in phones running very hot, running out of storage, and racking up high data fees.

Nextcloud/Server

Federated Cloud Sharing data leak
- issues/51335
- Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic

NixOS/Foundation

Anduril sponsorship drama

NixOS/Nixpkgs

Nixxquality/WebMConverter

nixxquality/WebMConverter/commit/c1ac0baac06fa7175677a4a1bf65860a84708d67

Nodejs/Inclusivity

nodejs/inclusivity/issues/9

Nodejs/Node

Nodejs/Readable-Stream

nodejs/readable-stream/pull/238

Nodejs/TSC

nodejs/TSC/issues/8

Npm/Npm

npm/npm/issues/19883

Obsproject/Obs-Studio

obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2868
obsproject/obs-studio/pull/10043
- Single JSON change that adds another streaming service rejected by maintainer with zero commits in the last few days, citing not meeting unspecified requirements.

Oerdnj/Deb.sury.org

Omnivore-App/Omnivore

Omnivore shutdown due to ElevenLabs purchase
- omnivore-app/omnivore/issues/4459
- Omnivore Blog: Details on Omnivore shutting down

Opal/Opal

opal/opal/issues/941,
- archive.ph,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive,
- Dramatis Personae:
  - Coraline Ada Ehmke, @CoralineAda, GitHub, Wikipedia
  - @meh, GitHub
- Summary:
  - A core maintainer of Opal made transmisic and transphobic comments on the Internet.
  - The creator of the Contributor Covenant opened an issue to kick the maintainer out of the Opal development community.
  - Another core maintainer of Opal replied hostilely and closed the GitHub issue dismissively.
- Journalism:

OpenBB-Finance/OpenBBTerminal

OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/issues/1625,
- archive.ph,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive
- Summary:
  - Someone from OpenBB was scraping GitHub for emails and sending out marketing spam.
  - SinSiXX opened an issue titled "Shit SPAM" on GitHub in April 2022.
- Journalism:
  - Hacker News, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive

Opencart/Opencart

OpenTTD/OpenTTD

OpenTTD/OpenTTD/issues/7731

Orgs/Community

orgs/community/discussions/65343

Palantir/Tslint

P-H-C/Phc-Winner-Argon2

P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2/issues/182

PiotrGrochowski/Consolas

PiotrGrochowski/Consolas/issues/1 (archive: 1)

Pkgxdev/Pantry

pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358

PolyMC/PolyMC

Portainer/Portainer

portainer/portainer/issues/8452
- Summary:
  - Portainer developers add an obnoxious e-begging button and call the built-in begware a new feature, not a bug.
  - Kubernetes users install ad blockers in their development environment to suppress the nagware.
  - The community then creates new ad-free forks and Docker images.

PowerShell/PowerShell

PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901

Prettier/Prettier

prettier/prettier/issues/6360,

Probonopd

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277
- Developer posts a gist of his objective grievances with Wayland, holywar in comments ensues. Rust Evangelism Strike Force derails the thread as usual.

Projecthamster/Hamster

projecthamster/hamster/issues/574

Promises-Aplus/Promises-Spec

promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94

Ptsteadman/Notebook

ptsteadman/notebook/pull/1,
- archive.org,
- archive.ph

Pyca/Cryptography

pyca/cryptography/issues/5771

Pypa/Pipenv

pypa/pipenv/issues/1050

P0deje/Maccy

p0deje/Maccy/issues/482,
- archive.is,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive
- Some users can't figure out why they can't copy or paste with the clipboard manager and can't find any fix. Several people with the problem complain, and the problem is widespread due to the Ventura update. Finally, after much struggle, the issue is closed.

Qbittorrent/QBittorrent

qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/9407
qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18618
- Summary:
  - Without first consulting the qBittorrent developers privately, an alt account publicly disclosed a path traversal vulnerability by opening a GitHub issue in February 2023. (Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure, CVD, Wikipedia)
  - One GitHub user responded, "That doesn't respect my freedom™ to use a better client." Many reacted to the reply with a thumbs-down emoji. (Source)
  - Another GitHub user commented, "What is your problem with using civilized language?" A qBittorrent maintainer marked the comment as abuse. (Source)

Rails/Rails

Raivo-Otp/Ios-Application

Formerly source-available OTP authenticator for iOS suddenly deleted user data after update, and is suggested to be paywalling the backup import function.

Redis

redis/redis/pull/13157

Redis-Rs

redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419

Resque/Resque

resque/resque/issues/1406

Restic

restic/issues/1786

RIAEvangelist/Node-ipc

RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/233 (archived: https://archive.ph/WGHMt)

Rms-Open-Letter

rms-open-letter

RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity,
- archive.ph,
- archive.org,
- ghostarchive
- /issues/28, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
- /pull/29, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
- Summary:
  - Google is prototyping a browser fingerprinting API that detects the browser's build, extensions, and overall environment around it.
  - This API allows for websites to collectively exclude all browsers and users that do not use any browser, extension, or OS approved (attested) by Google themselves, essentially forcing all browser developers to register their web browser to Google for testing, and disallowing most Chromium forks.

Robertdavidgraham/Masscan

robertdavidgraham/masscan/issues/482

Rollup/Rollup

rollup/rollup/issues/2716

Rubocop/Rubocop

rubocop/rubocop/issues/8091 (archive.org, archive.ph)

SerenityOS/Serenity

SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
- Hobbyist OS developer rejects inclusivity documentation changes PR, people of gender raid the comments three years late.

Signalapp/Signal-Android

signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/8974
- Signal developers removed a passphrase and forced users to use a fingerprint. User claims that they received money from secret service for reducing a privacy of their app.

Snarfed/Bridgy-Fed

snarfed/bridgy-fed
- Mastodon users in denial of the fact that their posts are public flood the BlueSky-ActivityPub bridge repo with opt-out requests.
- /issues/835 (https://archive.fo/8WKcs)
- /issues/841 (https://archive.fo/py75t)
- /issues/869 (https://archive.fo/4rhOc)

spatie/laravel-newsletter/pull/228

Spring-Projects/Spring-Hateoas

spring-projects/spring-hateoas/issues/66

Standard/Standard

standard/standard/issues/1381

Stevemao/Left-Pad

stevemao/left-pad/issues/4

Strongloop/Loopback

strongloop/loopback/issues/1079

Syl20bnr/Spacemacs

syl20bnr/spacemacs/pull/3484

Systemd/Systemd

Tc39/Proposal-Cancelable-Promises

tc39/proposal-cancelable-promises/issues/70

Telegramdesktop/Tdesktop

telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/96

Tenacityteam/Tenacity

tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99 (archive.org, archive.is)
- Tenacity, an Audacity fork, is an easy-to-use multi-track audio editor and recorder. A GitHub user named Cookiengineer was the leader and one of the developers of Tenacity.
- Some 4chan users doxxed and attempted to murder Cookiengineer in a coordinated attack campaign in July 2021. (source: theregister 2021)
- Cookiengineer quit after the harassment and stabbing from the 4chan users. (source: issues/99)

Tiangolo/Fastapi

tiangolo/fastapi/issues/3273

Tip4commit/Tip4commit

tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127

Tj-Actions/Changed-Files

Github action leaking secrets
- issues/2464
- GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23000 projects

Todogroup/Opencodeofconduct

todogroup/opencodeofconduct/pull/70

Tootsuite/Mastodon

tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9898

Torvalds/Linux

torvalds/linux/commit/6e90b675cf942e50c70e8394dfb5862975c3b3b2

Twbs/Bootstrap

twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057

Twitter/Scrooge

twitter/scrooge/issues/222

ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games

Vcflib/Vcflib

vcflib/vcflib/issues/206

VHSgunzo/Lutris-Wine

VHSgunzo/lutris-wine/issues/15

Vimeo/Player.js

vimeo/player.js/issues/28

Voat/Voat

Scalability drama
- issues/445
- issues/446

Ultralyics/Ultralytics

Github action vulnerability

Webpack/Webpack-Cli

webpack/webpack-cli/issues/1612

WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127

WICG/Interventions

WICG/interventions/issues/18

WinampDesktop/Winamp

Winamp have open sourced the original player's code
They have chosen a custom license, forbidding forks, and distributing modifications among other things
Github users are outraged, started arguing in issues, and opened several troll pull requests
Finally, Winamp owners delete the source code repository
Please tone it down, I don't want Winamp to regret opensourcing
License violates Github TOS
Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

Xenia-Canary/Xenia-Canary

xenia-canary/xenia-canary/pull/180
- Summary
  - One of developers of Xenia, an Xbox 360 emulator, added an anti-feature that plays loud noises when loading ISO images, together with nagging messages about "piracy".
  - Said developer revealed to be a Discord moderator that happened to get tired of people asking for support without proving an ownership of the game.
  - After backlash, the developer nukes his account with other contributors cleaning up the mess later.
- Journalism

Yuzu-Emu/Yuzu

yuzu-emu/yuzu/issues/13189 (archive)
- Summary
  - Windows 7 user complained about lacking support for his OS
  - User didn't like being told to switch to linux
  - User intensively messaged Nintendo of America to issue a Cease & Desist letter to developers
  - Opens issue when they actually did it
- Journalism
  - rDrama
  - 4chan /g/ 99245995 (archive)

Zedeus/Nitter

zedeus/nitter/issues/983

Zenparsing/Es-Observable

zenparsing/es-observable/pull/97

Zloirock/Core-js

In May 2019, zloirock, the maintainer of the popular core-js library, added a code that printed promotional message into the postinstall script of his NPM package: issues/548
In November 2019, @zloirock lost an appeal to overturn an 18-month prison sentence imposed for causing a lethal road accident: The Register (2020)
In February 2023, @zloirock posted 10000-word So, what's next? article about open source sustainability and maintainer burnout problems and linked it in the GitHub issue. The issue elicited hundreds of comments and thousands of thumb-ups and heart emojis from GitHub users: issues/1179
So, what's next? article, archive.ph, archive.org, ghostarchive
GitHub issues
Journalism