Lack of cdnjs activity
Hey everyone,<p>My name is Thomas, one of the original founders of cdnjs along with Ryan (linked below by another commenter).<p>We originally posted cdnjs on Hacker News in 2011 -> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828516" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2828516</a><p>The project was originally created on AWS Cloudfront, Ryan and I thought we could handle the bills. In retrospect that was incredibly naive so we were fortunate to partner with Cloudflare.<p>At the time, cdnjs was a baby, Cloudflare had just started entering the market.<p>In short, Cloudflare always owned the domain, cdnjs.cloudflare.com, meaning, we were constrained to work under the DNS level.<p>We have both put considerable amounts of work into the project, but nothing compared to the community and the "core" contributors. I put "core" into quotes because for the last 5 years, cdnjs has largely been run by a highly dedicated man named Peter.<p><a href="https://github.com/PeterDaveHello" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/PeterDaveHello</a><p>Peter built enormous amounts of infrastructure to support cdnjs. He is extremely diligent, intelligent and determined.<p>The project was Ryan's and I "baby" but we were happy to relinquish control, sorry for all the "buts", but we were not in a position to control due to the technical and commercial reasons.<p>Ryan and I have never personally profited off the project, we've only paid bills and late night ssh sessions.<p>Conversations are underway to move forward, it is likely that the project will move to an unpkg setup (assets are just mirrored to npm).<p>A lot to say, but I'm at a lack of words.<p>Happy to answer any and all questions.