Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by Scotups on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:46PM
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yea, you're absolutely right! I am the author of that said animation lib, ngFx, from years ago. Was actually my first open source project. When we started tipe years ago, we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. We were way ahead of ourselves :). Because we're in private release, all of our open source is private on github right now. Once we're not longer in private release, it will be public.
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Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by paulryanrogers on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @09:40PM
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> ... we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe.
How common is this?
Seems like fraud to intentionally swap out a project within a repo for something very different to repurpose a reputation metric.
Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by woah on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @07:10PM
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Seems... questionable
Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by Scotups on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @07:46PM
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I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.
Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by masonhensley on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @08:06PM
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I think you are missing the point.
Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.
Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by ColoradoDev on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:58PM
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It seems like fraud.
Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by Scotups on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @08:17PM
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oh, yes, that was one of many mistakes we made early on. As we move to a public release, that is on our list to clean up.
Re:Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS ...
by Ericson2314 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @10:22PM
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GitHub should tie stars to commit hashes to avoid this sort of crap. Your repos stars is calculated from the started commits that are in this repo but not any it's forked from, on the default branch.
Still prone to abuse from transferring repo to credit somebody else, but the original repo owner would have to sign off on the transfer at least.