GitHub shadowbanned an NPM package with 37M+ weekly downloads

Hacker News•Sat, Aug 1, 2026, 10:01 AM•2 min read

GitHub's algorithms shadowbanned a popular SVG optimizer with over 37 million weekly npm downloads and thousands of downstream dependents. https://github. com/svg/svgo https://x.

Source: [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132894)

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