No, not just now. Unless someone reads this post and tries to be funny, you do not need to check codeberg. This is now old news: the repo was brought back in less than 24 hours by someone with a local copy of the latest version, and nudel.cc kept running without any issues during this time. It was very easy to miss.

While I was not fully certain of what was going to happen when I killed it, I am a bit shocked it did not stay dead. Not because I thought no one would have the means to bring it back, but because I thought we would choose to let it die. Part of what drove me to kill the repo was the number of public remarks I started seeing from pasta folk that implied to me it would be the right time to do so. There was a tension in the air, like maybe we were all afraid to be the one to push the big red button.

Myself? I really like nudel, but I can push a simple button for others’ sake. So I did, maybe having failed to truly read the room in hindsight, but surely giving a few people some lousy time spent trying to reverse it. I think they saw this as some kind of attack, and I feel pretty bad about that.

A few other things happened. While the repo was gone, someone posted a license issue on codeberg: maybe to prompt the complete takedown of the nudel website, though it clearly did not succeed if this were the case. Later, when the repo came back, someone broadly thanked me in a comment on nudel. Lastly, a somewhat cryptic song was jammed out with lyrics sung about nudel dying and coming back “in two more ways”. These events could have all come from the same person, but that person was not me.

The room is giving mixed signals.



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