Personally, I think this comment from the thread summarizes my feelings best:
My preference would be to keep the post-install messages clean; I see them as a good place to advertise recent breaking changes and knowing the size of most node_modules folders, if everyone starts doing it then we're in for a rough ride. But with that being said I respect that it's [Owner of core-js]'s right to use it to ask for a little help. Hell, I'm using hundreds if not thousands of contributors' time so I think I'll survive.
While I would not like to have 'ads' in the post install logs, I acknowledge the time required to maintain open source software. I prefer using something like BuyMeACoffee to give monetary credit where credit is due.
An interesting aside: In that discussion, someone linked to a github seach result saying "well other people do it too".
If you look through the search results it looks like it is almost entirely two libraries: Swiper (which has removed their 'ad') and Framework7, both of which are authored by the same person.
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Personally, I think this comment from the thread summarizes my feelings best:
While I would not like to have 'ads' in the post install logs, I acknowledge the time required to maintain open source software. I prefer using something like BuyMeACoffee to give monetary credit where credit is due.
An interesting aside: In that discussion, someone linked to a github seach result saying "well other people do it too".
If you look through the search results it looks like it is almost entirely two libraries: Swiper (which has removed their 'ad') and Framework7, both of which are authored by the same person.