Reposting my comment from the other thread which for unexplained reasons has been flagged and killed.

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No more free work from Marak - Pay Me or Fork This

https://web.archive.org/web/20201226190222/https://github.co...

Discussion from the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032105

Also a discussion about his blog on the subject (which appears to be down):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252066

Possibly related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032105&p=2

No the author links to some qanon type conspiracy crap on reddit in the only issue in that repo.

“Respectfully I am no longer going to support fortune 500s…with my free work”

https://web.archive.org/web/20210704022108/https://github.co...

It would likely be a good idea to divest yourself from this package given the actions of the maintainer. As others have said, this appears to be intentional. There has been a 6.6.6 release to npm published ~8 hours ago as of this post, which has nothing in it.

I have forked original source code. https://github.com/scalalang2/faker.js-mirror

here's the fork: https://github.com/faker-js/faker.js

Any suggestions for alternatives? (apart from pinning an old version)

There's a fork here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@withshepherd/faker