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39 mentions on Hacker News by 30 people: 4 stories, 35 comments · first 2014-11-20 · latest 2026-10-26

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  1. …too: uploads succeeded, but Cargo couldn't find the new versions in the index. Related report: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/15053 It now looks like it has been fixed. They're visible now.
    comment by sooniter · 2026-10-26 · in Ask HN: Did crates.io stop processing new crate publishes?
  2. See the official project issue on this: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326 TL;DR: They want to fix this, it's a lot of work that no one's being paid to do, there's a roadmap with specific tasks that need doing, volunteer…
    comment by ameliaquining · 2026-06-24 · in GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io
  3. There is some recent progress on https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
    comment by progval · 2026-06-17 · in Why stdx is not on crates.io
  4. As for #4, you will probably be interested in https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326 . The crates.io team wants this, but this is complex to implement and they're understaffed.
    comment by afdbcreid · 2026-06-15 · in How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++
  5. In particular a number of other projects assume that you have a GitHub account. https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326 has been open for literally a decade without any meaningful work. If you want to publish a Lean software…
    comment by JuniperMesos · 2026-03-26 · in Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
  6. Crates.io is moving to Svelte[1]. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/12515
    comment by Alupis · 2026-01-15 · in CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem
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    Crates.io Moving to Svelte 5
    story by thunderbong · 2026-01-03 · 0 comments
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    Crates.io Moving to Svelte
    story by Alupis · 2026-01-02 · 0 comments
  9. Rust was hit by a similar attempt: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/discussions/11889 Nothing much came of it, I don't know.
    comment by lyu07282 · 2025-09-16 · in Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
  10. …can't get over the fact that Rust has a github dependency. And I'm sure they're not the only one. https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
    comment by pessimizer · 2025-01-11 · in Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
  11. …subcontracted to GitHub (and only GitHub) so Microsoft. Debian? Microsoft? ... that's a tricky one. https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
    comment by jjgreen · 2023-11-14 · in Rust without crates.io
  12. True enough, crates.io being one of them https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
    comment by jjgreen · 2023-08-15 · in GitHub will disable non-2FA accounts?
  13. Rust is a bit buggered, crates.io depends on it https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
    comment by jjgreen · 2023-08-13 · in What if GitHub Disappeared Tomorrow? [pdf]
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    Non-GitHub account creation (2016)
    story by throwaway98234 · 2023-05-19 · 0 comments
  15. …feel free to get started!” (Though only if you’re a contributor or open a duplicate issue) [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
    comment by Waterluvian · 2023-05-03 · in MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
  16. …bit the bullet and fix it with Cargo 2.0. Take the opportunity to discard dead packages too. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/58
    comment by jimlongton · 2023-01-26
  17. …all exist, the file isn't too large, etc. But 99% of the testing happens on the client. Eg: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/blob/58e505f2abdabd6a... https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/blob/58e505f2abdabd6a...…
    comment by est31 · 2022-10-18 · in “You meant to install ripgrep”
  18. …find documentation to this effect, but users have reported it returning an error (e.g., [0]). [0] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/166
    comment by LegionMammal978 · 2022-09-13 · in A personal list of Rust grievances
  19. …backends is presumably on their todo list but something they can't commit to. Good news, though: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io (and they accept PRs)
    comment by DiabloD3 · 2022-05-23 · in Rust's Problematic Reliance on GitHub
  20. …Over time that might change. - Setting up a mirror is straightforward, should you want to do so: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/blob/master/docs/MIRR... - crates.io is financed by the Rust Foundation and is at no risk of…
    comment by estebank · 2022-04-15 · in Rustaceans at the border
  21. The code which contains the fixes: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/2637
    comment by jacques_chester · 2020-07-15 · in Crates.io Security Advisory
  22. …multiple accounts if you don't want to share tokens between repositories (bad idea security wise): https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/849#issuecomme...
    comment by est31 · 2020-04-14 · in GitHub is now free for teams
  23. …a few other crates in the same org) but nothing more [2]. This solution isn't really good tho. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/849 [2]: https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal/pull/337
    comment by est31 · 2019-11-18 · in Publish NPM Package with GitHub Actions
  24. I'm guessing they are talking about this issue which has been open for a disturbingly long time: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/955
    comment by oehtXRwMkIs · 2019-09-12 · in Candidates for Mozilla's IRC Successor
  25. …collected information. There seems to be an open issue and WIP PR with more details: Issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/955 PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/pull/919/file... The cargo manifest also…
    comment by typical182 · 2019-09-03 · in Go 1.13 Release Notes
  26. …are github.com/<creator>/<package>. Here are some writeups on what the rust team decided: - https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/58 - https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/crates-io-package-policies... Their stance seems pretty…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2019-07-29 · in Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
  27. …etc. For an open source example of what kind of complexity arises in real life check out crates.io: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/blob/363b9e036b2ba5d8...
    comment by jashmatthews · 2018-12-29 · in Sketches of Elixir
  28. …the new Rust installation. [1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/crates-io-compatibility-with-o... [2] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/584 [3] https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3763
    comment by Animats · 2017-04-28 · in Rust 1.17
  29. …See here: https://github.com/ryandotsmith/nginx-buildpack/blob/master/... for the default config, https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/blob/0f3adf36108dfac6... for the one we actually use. (Given this is offtopic, I'll leave it at that.…
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-12-14 · in Rust gets a faster sort implementation
  30. ▲ 2
    Remove Google Analytics and any other trackers from crates.io website
    story by JoshTriplett · 2016-10-21 · 0 comments
  31. Yes. See the diff here for an example of moving a project from one to another: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/457 lots of "npm run" -> "yarn run" there.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2016-10-11 · in Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript
  32. …solution to this yet. [0] https://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2015/04/14/as-a-goat-im... [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/75 EDIT: typos
    comment by DyslexicAtheist · 2016-08-20 · in Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone
  33. …depends on in the project manifest, but unauthenticated crates are a ar more serious problem. [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/75
    comment by goodplay · 2016-01-12 · in Two Weeks of Rust
  34. …I wouldn't be floored if crates.io was exploitable. Actually I know it is; [I've exploited it]( https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/176 ). Rust solves many interesting problems, but it is no panacea for program correctness!
    comment by Gankro · 2015-09-23 · in Exploitable vulnerabilities found in Kaspersky Anti-Virus
  35. https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io It uses 'conduit', which is a web framework that's basically only used by crates.io, as far as I know.
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-08-16 · in Rust web framework, Iron
  36. Postgres: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io It also stores the index via git and S3...
    comment by steveklabnik · 2015-05-30 · in Writing a website in Rust
  37. Filed! https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/56
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-11-21 · in The Rust community's crate host
  38. …to discover that the backend is written in Rust as well. Here's the code for anyone who's curious: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/tree/master/src
    comment by kibwen · 2014-11-20 · in The Rust community's crate host
  39. …is below the 'stats' portion, though there is an open issue to move this section above the stats: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/35
    comment by untothebreach · 2014-11-20 · in The Rust community's crate host