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re: domino effect, the recent doxxing from r/rust
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@cat8124 @tauon

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Due to the doxxing and harassment incident yesterday, the bincode team has taken the decision to cease development permanently. 1.3.3 is considered a complete piece of software. For years there have been no real bugs, just user error and feature requests that don’t match the purpose of the library.
This means that there will be no updates to either major version. No responses to emails, no activity on sourcehut. There will be no hand off to another development team. The project is over and done.
Please next time consider the consequences of your actions and that they affect real people.

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Let’s stop the drama right here, right now.
Timeline of previous events:

  • 4 months ago: bincode was migrated from GitHub to SourceHut, and OP chose this migration to also switch their names in the git history.
  • Days ago: the strange switch was discovered, contact attempts were made, but existing channels of communication had been closed.
  • Yesterday: a post calling out the situation appeared on r/rust, folks started investigating whether a hostile take-over was happening, and some users went too far, disclosing real identifies & addresses1 .
  • Yesterday (a few hours later): a moderator locked the post, and wiped out the doxxing comments1 .
    1 I unfortunately only logged in after the battle myself, so never saw the comments the myself; I’ll take my co-moderators word on this.
    Note: please use modmail/private messages to point any mistake in this timeline; I’ll edit accordingly.
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