Comment by jancsika
8 years ago
The consequence of forks is that their desired userbase is now seeing double, and whenever a potential user asks about it someone from the community tells them, "Don't use the one with ads and/or other junk, use this one instead."
If other companies follow along then Atom's ecosystem-- and therefore, Atom-- will suffer as a result.
Regardless, there probably should be more caution when installing plugins.
Yes, I agree, forks are another bad consequence and usually undesirable (though there are exceptions, e.g. it worked for the Node.js community). Had Kite not subverted the plugin, there wouldn't be a need for a fork.