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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.
  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…
  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.
  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
  7. 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.
  8. …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
  9. …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
  10. 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?
  11. Rust is a bit buggered, crates.io depends on it https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …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”
  15. …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
  16. …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
  17. …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
  18. 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
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …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
  25. …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
  26. …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
  27. 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
  28. …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
  29. …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
  30. …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!
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Filed! https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/56
    comment by steveklabnik · 2014-11-21 · in The Rust community's crate host
  34. …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
  35. …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