Does this person telling us not to use polyfill.io, and the guy who sold polyfill.io to the chinese company both work at Fastly? If so, that's kind of awkward...
[1] https://community.fastly.com/t/new-options-for-polyfill-io-u...
But it leaves me with an uneasy feeling about Fastly.
can't catch a break
They both simply dedicated a lot of time, care and skill to the project. It's really a shame to see what they spent so much time building and maintaining now being used as a platform to exploit people. I'm sure its extremely disappointing to both of them.
Is JakeChampion not the one who sold the project? His bio says he currently works at Fastly
- In ~May 2023, the FT transferred it to Jake Champion: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill....
- In mid-Oct, the site stated it was "Proudly sponsored by Fastly": https://web.archive.org/web/20231011015804/https://polyfill....
- In November 2023, this was dropped: https://web.archive.org/web/20231101040617/https://polyfill....
- In December 2023, JakeChampion made a sequence of edits removing his name from the repo and pointing to "Polyfill.io maintainers": https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/... https://github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/commit/...
- In mid-February 2024, the polyfillpolyfill account was created on Github, and took ownership over the repo.
So I think sometime between October 2023 and February 2024, JakeChampion decided to sell the site to Funnull. I think the evidence is consistent with him having made a decision to sell the site to _somebody_ in December 2023, and the deal with Funnull closing sometime early February 2024.