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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native by giancarlostoro on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:48AM (#17625250)
This right here. I hope companies stop fearing contributing to React / React Native (and ANY open source project they rely enough on). I think companies that make plenty of revenue off of certain open source projects should invest resources into said projects. If you patched some part of the project, contribute it back! It will only benefit you in the long run instead of running frankenforks of the code, and ultimately if it gets abandoned, offer to continue to maintain it!

I wish more companies would give developers about 10% of their time to develop things they think would benefit the company, whether it's internal tools or open source projects they rely on (or building new things). Just give devs every Friday or every other Friday with free reign to code or learn new things.

Ah well... If the projects they rely on stop being maintained they just suck it up and let it foster eternally till forced to migrate.

Dear Discord:

Your bread and butter seems to rely upon React / React Native. It's an open source project, pay your employees to contribute to it!

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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native by wdgz on Friday July 27, 2018 @01:33PM (#17627625)
Hi! I'm from Discord and we do contribute to React/React Native! I have to say it's quite an adventure to dig through React Native's issue tracker only to find that your CTO's PR has been merged :P
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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native by giancarlostoro on Friday July 27, 2018 @02:55PM (#17628265)
That's good to know, thanks for the context, didn't mean to assume just wasn't sure, been so busy at work today so hadn't read the whole article yet. That does sound pretty awesome! I hope more companies do contributions like you guys do. Facebook kickstarted the project, doesn't mean they will run it forever, eventually the torch must be carried by the community.
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Re:Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native by wdgz on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:14PM (#17630246)
No worries! We actually didn't highlight it in the post :P I just find it such a cool fun fact that I wish we talked about it more.
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