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This seems to be a bit of a concerning attitude, and it's also in that top Discord guys post. No, it's not a bug in some third-party library that you are excused from - you use it, it's your bug now!

And who other than Discord would be poised to take charge and fix it? They need a desktop client almost like no other Electron user. Time to grow up and take some responsibility for the stuff you ship. Instead we have

$ git log --oneline --author "discordapp.com" | wc -l

   7
They are building their business centerpiece software around something they don't understand and don't maintain.



Yeah the moment you take on a dependency and put it into your code, you vouch for it. That's why so many open source (or even proprietary) licenses have the NO LIABILITY clause.




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