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Also, never forget that they've bought out Atom extensions in the past to insert promotions for Kite. https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588#issuecomm... https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i... Edit: Related HN thread with ~400 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653

The ads were specifically added into two community supported Atom extensions after Kite employees got contributor access to both of them. For those curious, here are the relevant issues: https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588 https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i...

Maybe Github should have an informal policy that punishes bad actors by penalizing how they're listed in Atom's built-in package browser. Or create a convention of documentation that is machine-readable and easy to preview in the editor's package-updater tool. But making blanket rules regarding commercialization would likely have unwanted unintended effects. FWIW, Atom's community manager wrote a long comment in one of the Kite plugins' Github issues: https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588#issuecomm... > As a steward of the Atom editor and the Atom package ecosystem, I'm of course concerned about packages being used for nefarious purposes. But I'm also loathe to impose blanket rules on what is or isn't valid functionality for packages without some very well-thought-out rationalization and justification for those rules. I've be

It is opt out. You can read the comments from the Kite developer yourself. https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588#issuecomm... Your comments are such a poor defense of a dubious feature I wonder if you have a connection to Kite.

I totally agree that putting proprietary integrations into open source packages is shady. However, I don't think that the Minimap "kite promotion" [0] went so far as too actually upload code to Kite's cloud platform. It looks like it just added tool tips that referenced Kite's documentation. That's distracting and unwanted, but not as egregious as uploading your code without permission. [0] https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/commit/16c11d82b889c...

Merge request to remove Kite in minimap was closed: https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/pull/596

Kudos to @mehcode for the fork [1]! And the author @abe33 for the apology [2]! I'm thinking, that @abe33 might not be responsible for this, but was "asked" by his employer (Kite) to do that. Then, there are alternatives such as sublimetext/vscode, which have the minimap builtin... Disclaimer: Not affiliated, I prefer n/vim anyways. This is a copy from my comment in the issue. Please read @abe33's comment [2] in the issue. This might explain a thing or two. -- [1]: https://github.com/mehcode/atom-minimap-plus [2]: https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588#issuecomm...

If you are looking for the github thread – https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap/issues/588.

Hi, I have been a long user of Sublime and appreciate it to the core for improving my day-to-day programming tasks. One of the feature I like the most about Sublime is it's minimap feature which lets you see the code at glance and helps you quickly move to the certain code block. Later, I have moved to Atom Editor which is also quite good as of now. But it doesn't have this minimap feature inbuilt. So, I have been using a third party plugin for same called https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap Now, I want to build a same kind of plugin for Visual Studio Code cause as of now it doesn't have one. Let me know who's interested to collaborate upon the same with me. Thanks!