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		MaxLeiter on Jan 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many packages suddenly disappeared Couldn’t this be solved in the future by npm storing packages with user names? I.e. “MaxLeiter/example” instead of “example”

zbentley on Jan 7, 2018 [–]

Well, we don't know what caused the issue yet, so we can't say for sure. But I suspect that whatever family of problem deleted the packages causing this trouble could just as easily apply to the deletion (and illegitimate reclamation) of usernames.

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