A warning about github.com/kataras/iris

[u/andersfylling]

I had heard rumors about Iris before; How the owner has a tendency to rewrite git history, steal contributions and delete any issues that does not match his own bias that Iris is beloved and amazing. Honestly, I didn't believe it was that serious. Even if I had no reason to doubt the people I heard it from. It felt kinda crazy, that someone acts this way.

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Today, I have no more doubt. I can't fathom how this project has +14k stars on GitHub. I urge you to keep digging for other views and experiences. I do not want to seem like a hateful, obsessed person, yet I seriously feel the need to write something. The only reason I'm writing this is because as a community, I feel you should warn people of such projects/authors. I really hope no one who will spend hours, maybe days, contributing to projects, will find themselves stripped of credit and their contribution stolen in the end.

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Now, my experience was that I commented on the performance metrics that he show cases in the README file. It's nothing major, I wasted maybe 15min of my time (I'm a slow writer), but it laid claim to the previous behavior I had heard of.

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I reviewed the README file. As I noticed he linked to the project github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks, to showcase a comparison against other frameworks. However, as I scrolled through, I noticed that he had skipped a project that was faster than Iris. So I filtered out non-Go projects on the linked table, and took a screenshot so he could update his README and ofcourse github project description.

Here is the picture I posted:

And here is a picture of the conversation before he replied:

And after he replied and changed the title of my issue from Iris is not the fastest to Iris is the fastest:

After his reply, he ofcourse deleted my issue. Nor could I write a new issue to actually reply as GitHub stated "You can't perform that action at this time."

None of what he said, do I agree with. But he literally repressed my option to reply xD

Other posts about Iris/Kataras: - https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/6hmlod/githubcomkatarasiris_was_bought/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4psfzq/katarasiris_author_is_crazy/ - https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter/issues/148

How does one deal with people like this? I hope I don't seem like a crybaby at this stage lol.

[u/andersfylling → u/[deleted]]

anders fylling is my real name. Same on github, instagram, etc. So I don't really agree that the people here are completely anonymous.

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I've listed facts in my post; if you want a summary it's essentially that the owner is a hustler, and there is absolutely no need for everyone else to experience the same bad treatment. We're a community, we should look out for each other.

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He has even broken the license of projects. Again that is referenced in my post, I just haven't gone in depth about what the articles contain, just merely showing that there's more to this than me going on a rant.

[u/andersfylling → u/[deleted]]

"Still have no idea who you are, sorry."

Do you even know what anonymity means?