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title: Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR
link: https://lobste.rs/s/8rrtma/cloudflare_shutting_down_deno_is_news_not
source: lobste-rs
published: 2026-10-09T21:20:03Z
updated: 2026-10-09T21:20:03Z
first_seen: 2026-10-11T02:08:53.023536769Z
authors:
- by conartist6
labels:
- meta
summary: 'Requesting the currently-removed post for https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare be restored. Thread: https://lobste.rs/s/8hauxs/deno_is_joining_cloudflare My reasoning: It isn''t just PR, but significant tech news that Cloudflare is buying up open source teams while dismantling the projects they maintain. Is this not the best place to discuss the ramifications of companies acting in this manner?'
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I would like to try to clarify my moderation stance around:

> Is this not the best place to discuss the ramifications of companies acting in this manner?

The post, as submitted, reads like a "report to market" similar to the one that Armon made when [Hashicorp was aquired by IBM](https://lobste.rs/s/tbuvzp/hashicorp_joins_ibm_accelerate_multi). While both companies clearly went their respective [incredible journies](https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredible-journey/), having discussions about the ramification and impact of this action on a submission which is [explicitly called out as being off topic](https://lobste.rs/about#guidelines%C2%B7:~:text=news%20about%20companies%20that%20employ%20a%20lot%20of%20programmers) is off topic.

In Hashicorp's case, the discussion around the ramifications of the aquisition occured via the [OpenTofu](https://lobste.rs/search?q=title%3A%22OpenTofu%22&what=stories&order=newest) and [OpenBao](https://lobste.rs/search?q=title%3A%22OpenBao%22&what=stories&order=newest) forks being discussed on the site in a much more "topical" fashion. My expectation that given the news is less than a day old (at the time of writing), we will see submissions which are more in line with the discussions that were had around OpenTofu and OpenBao for Deno's projects once the community has had a chance to process the news and coordinate on responses.