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Superseded by abstract-level. A wrapper for abstract-leveldown compliant stores, for Node.js and browsers.

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Superseded by abstract-level. A wrapper for abstract-leveldown compliant stores, for Node.js and browsers.

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HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-07-22 07:09:37 UTC to 2017-05-02 15:03:11 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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And... one more: * It's really fun to share project ownership with all the contributors. From CONTRIBUTING.md: > Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project to contribute as they see fit. This project is more like an open wiki than a standard guarded open source project. (https://github.com/feross/webtorrent-desktop/blob/master/CON...) The first time I witnessed this in action was on the LevelUp project (https://github.com/Level/levelup). Since the days of the iojs fork, Node.js itself has adopted the same model. Sharing commit access liberally is awesome for project health, because: - The project can move forward even when the project owner is busy. - It empowers contributors. It makes them feel like owners, because, well, they are. They end up contributing a lot more code. - In the wo
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rst cast, it's Git, so bad commits can be backed out. But I've NEVER had to do this, or ever seen anyone else need to do it.
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I'd also encourage people to check out gun - http://gun.js.org/ (disclaimer: I'm on the gun team) GUN is a highly modular, open-source, real-time, offline-first, distributed cache storage engine. By default gun uses localStorage for data storage, but with gun-level there are many more data storage engines just a module away. GUN defaults to pushing all data. The gun team is regularly releasing new modules, new and improved functionality, and improving performance. If you have any questions, please feel free to ping the gun team on Gitter. [gun-level]: https://github.com/PsychoLlama/gun-level [available data storage engines]: https://github.com/Level/levelup/wiki/Modules#storage [gun's gitter channel]: https://gitter.im/amark/gun
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