Rhombus 1.1 is now available

Re:Rhombus 1.1 is now available by threatofrain on Sunday August 16, 2026 @09:22PM (#49325584)

The way the Rhombus / Racket community does libraries has to change. That whole package site has to change. Being a contributor on there exposes you to a steady stream of fraud garbage. There's nothing to promote the top libraries as the top libraries.

https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/?fam=Rhombus

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Re:Rhombus 1.1 is now available by sorawee on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:09AM (#49326472)

I agree that a ranking mechanism would be nice, but what do you mean by "fraud garbage"? I personally am not aware of any malicious package in the Racket ecosystem.

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Re:Rhombus 1.1 is now available by fn-mote on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:48AM (#49331974)

Perhaps they are referring to the fact that the package server does not hide the email of the contributor?

Not that this is a complaint worth airing on HN.

Solution: just block the alias that you use for the submission…

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Re:Rhombus 1.1 is now available by soegaard on Monday August 17, 2026 @07:05PM (#49338908)

The email is obfuscated.

https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/

And has been for a long while.

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Re:Rhombus 1.1 is now available by threatofrain on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:02PM (#49333176)

> Being a contributor on there

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Re:Rhombus 1.1 is now available by sorawee on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:47PM (#49333985)

Ah, I see what you mean now. Yeah, that was indeed problematic. We kinda fixed this issue a while back by obfuscating emails (https://github.com/racket/racket-pkg-website/pull/88), but it doesn't help with already scraped emails. Also, the raw emails are still technically readable if one knows where to look at.

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