Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?
The website (https://getferdi.com/), as well as the GitHub repo (https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi) and the Twitter account (https://twitter.com/getferdi), is gone. Log in to the service is not working as well, of course.
Does anyone know why this well-used open-source tool is gone? Now it seems like getferdi.com redirects to https://rambox.app/.. looking very similar to what ferdi was. Is this like a new version ? no, ferdi was just a fork of franz, stripping out the monetization stuff. Rambox... I don't know? It hasn't reached much success in HN. But as a strange coincidence they posted this article 5 days ago: https://rambox.medium.com/how-to-start-with-rambox-and-simpl... They've never posted a 'getting started' before... https://rambox.medium.com/ yeah... pretty weird, and if you look at the interface is pretty similar to ferdi/franz... makes me thing if it was a branch move or something. I have no idea why it happened, but there are still some forks [0] around, the last updated one I saw being [1], updated 5 months ago. The opencollective page [2] seems to be still up, with a balance of zero. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027131828/https://github.co...
[1]: https://github.com/aarongraham9/ferdi
[2]: https://opencollective.com/getferdi The Open Collective page is archived by now. Strange =/ I still have it open, with the last $96.71 USD withdrawal 11 days ago. Can't find much more about what happened. The founder of Ferdi has deleted all his accounts (GitHub, Twitter, Instagram) etc. as well. Let's hope nothing bad happened here. Apparently ferdi started disappearing a while ago? https://twitter.com/EggermontRomain/status/14837540947246243... Ha, my r/DataHoarder tendency shines through; my local mirror of the "getferdi" org has up until Mar 21st Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31014222 Website went offline about 30 mins ago, repo and twitter are also gone. Looks like it's been hacked or pulled? Sorry, I must have written my post while you submitted. However, some people are answering on my Twitter thread as well: https://twitter.com/FabianBeiner/status/1514231334977388548 Website is back and login to Ferdi is now possible again. This morning I can login to my Ferdi account and https://getferdi.com/ seems to be working again. Similarly Twitter. https://twitter.com/getferdi Go figure.... yeah my ferdi worked again out of nowhere - does anyone know what happened? it seems like they're doing a total migration - might be a change of ownership? their old repo is obviously gone but there's a new (empty) account linked to from their website Could be a "same password for all sites" kinda hacking issue? https://twitter.com/getferdi/status/1514338991419580420 I found a mirror. Who wants to join me? Copy&Paste needed... PS: has the last push from 20h ago
$ git --git-dir=ferdi/.git log -1 origin/develop
commit e300c01b46ec94fa46c91ce60c548335d5e30fab (origin/develop, origin/HEAD)
Author: github-actions <github-actions@github.com>
Date: Mon Mar 21 00:29:48 2022 +0000
Update submodules, browserslist data updates and linter fixes [skip ci]
$ git --git-dir=server/.git log -1 origin/master
commit 3a3860c65a1a492ff9ab1515731cd0c8e12b30e9 (tag: v1.3.2, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: kytwb <kytwb@pm.me>
Date: Mon Mar 14 15:36:34 2022 +0100
1.3.2