[HN Gopher] Tell HN: The 226K stars "public-APIs" repo has been ...
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       Tell HN: The 226K stars "public-APIs" repo has been ruined by a
       greedy company
        
       Source: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104
       Despite having as many stars there hasn't been any commits since
       July. That's because a company called APILayer, that holds the repo
       access but doesn't respond to any maintainer messages and evidently
       doesn't participate in maintainance, has chased everyone off.
       Aside from every representative of their company who was messaged
       by the volunteer maintainers ignoring the messages, they also
       malisciously alter the list, by replacing themselves as the sponsor
       all the way at the top (without monetary sponsoring or maintainance
       help) and move themselves up in the lists. This all happens without
       any communication. They also didn't communicate at all when
       lowering the repo access for all volunteer maintainers. This
       happened after the maintainers reverted one of API Layer's
       maliscious commits replacing the sponsor logo.  A few quotes from
       the issue:  > I spoke with employees and ex-employees, but could
       not get help. I also spoke to John Burr (APILayer's General
       Manager) but he hasn't responded for many months.  > I made several
       more attempts to communicate with Julian Zehetmayr and Paul
       Zehetmayr (co-founders and former CEOs of APILayer), but got no
       response. I believe they are very busy people.  > Also, we noticed
       that this week all of us maintainers had our access levels lowered
       without any communication, motivation or anything close to that.
       Now we don't even have access to the basic settings in the
       repository.  > They are now pushing their own business APIs above
       others (breaking the alphabetically-ordered CI rule). This goes
       against our contributing rule.  > They now removed the repo
       maintainers list, they know what they are doing 831ff03  > Apilayer
       took over the restcountries project, stopped support, took down the
       website (restcountries.eu, domain still registered to apilayer) and
       as far as I see never acknowledge any user feedback
        
       Author : 7moritz7
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-01-30 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | 7moritz7 wrote:
       | This is a maintained fork: https://github.com/public-apis-
       | dev/public-apis
       | 
       | And this is a maintained alternative with 6K stars:
       | https://github.com/public-api-lists/public-api-lists
        
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