AltVeilid: A fork of Veilid for people who care about DX

2 jdbohrman 1 6/5/2025, 4:46:19 PM github.com ↗

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jdbohrman · 22h ago
I don't need to say much about this. I built this fork simply because while I think the Veilid team is great and super technical, but their adherence to strict values that hurt the overall developer experience makes my a bit unenthusiastic about the long-term health of the project.

Full disclosure:

I was recently banned in the Veilid Discord for sharing a project I had help from Cursor to build after being berated for daring to not label it as such. I didn't make this fork in any attempt of a "gotcha" or to be petty, but I've pointed out a variety of issues in the project that have gone totally ignored, biggest of which is that with half-finished documentation that has no API reference, I feel like it's a bit presumptuous to dictate how people publish their open source projects. Anyways, I also make this fork simply to make it easier for people to access the code without having a Gitlab account.