The version history of the kik package[0] is odd. It has been replaced with a security holding package nine years ago[1].
Also, Kik turn out to be negligent and pretty scummy. There was some controversy with them involving crypto, but the main thing I remember about them is that Kik is rife in terms of trading pornography, including child pornography, as discussed on this Darknet Diaries episode: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/.
So, from that point of view, I quite enjoy that Azer Koçulu told them to fuck off.
turns out?
they threatened a pre-existing naming collision with legal action and bullied the platform first into forcing the name to be theirs, and then afterwards by crying to npm until their software tests passed again.
they began scummy.
So my friend sensibly caved in and changed the name of the package, got on with his life, and now it's all long forgotten history.
Going back to Kik, before I knew about all the other stuff (which I only found out about when I listened to that Darknet Diaries episode last year - bit late to the party there) I simply thought they'd gone about defending their trademark in a hamfisted and douchey way that had got Azer's back up. Lawyer's gonna lawyer, and the way they did it I thought they were douchebags, but beyond that I didn't give it much consideration. There was certainly no way any of this even hinted to me that they were negligently facilitating the distribution of child porn[0].
[0] Yes, this is obviously against Kik's ToS, but ToS are only worth anything if they're enforced whereas - certainly at times prior to the Darknet Diaries episode being released in 2021 - there was at best inconsistent and ineffective enforcement of these terms. I have no insight into the current situation with Kik.
jade, iirc. still best html/xml/etc templating package out there, jsx/tsx can't compare
I just looked jade up on npm and it's still there, so the company that wanted Forbes to change the name didn't even want to publish a package by the looks of it.