I’m desperately trying to find a recent dramatic happening in the open source world in which the admin for the most popular website to download a specific package turned the homepage into a slew of antivax/COVID denial messages, to the anger of the community.
I’ve tried searching but to no avail. It happened just a few months ago. IIRC, it was a specific, very popular open source package. Also, this wasn’t the official website, just the most popular mirror for downloading the package.
Any help in tracking down this drama appreciated. Please do cross post to other relevant communities if you’re feeling particularly helpful.
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I don’t think this is exactly what you are looking for but it sounds almost like what happened with PuTTY.
Except it wasn’t the official site is was another side with the same name that links misdirected people to the right site.https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/puttyorg_website_controversy/
You nailed it, this was the one!! Thanks so much!
