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Comment by sam_lowry_ | Hacker News Reader

> https://github.com/BlueBlazin/lowpolyearth

Publishing screenshots and the README on GitHub but not the code is sneaky at best, deceiving at worst.

My apologies! I worked on this project a while back and had kept the code repo private because it contained some personal data I hadn't cleaned up. I had this repo just to host the macOS binary. When I shared it I forgot it had no code!

I have now uploaded the entire codebase to the repo! Neither sneaky nor deceiving, just plain old stupidity, I'm afraid.

I’m not sure why they don’t just open the source (are they planning on monetizing it?), but GitHub has a convenient issue tracker that everyone already has a user account for.

No plans on monetizing it! Just made it for fun and have uploaded the full codebase now. I was using that repo for hosting the macOS download and had forgotten to host the codebase on it too! Sorry about that.

Yeah, I really despise this trend. Using github as just an issue tracker should also be banned if it was up to me.

I agree. I feel if github was owned/run by people passionate about code and open source software, no code repos be banned, if not just because it's consuming resources contrary to the mission.

It is owned/run by Microsoft. The mission is the big tech mission: usage of any kind regardless of the impact on anything else, and profit.

Try Codeberg, it's specifically for Open Source.

I had the code in a separate private repo because it had some personal data I hadn't cleaned up. When I shared this repo I forgot it didn't have the code! Sorry about that. A case of Hanlon's Razor and nothing more. I have uploaded the full codebase to the shared repo now.

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