Ask HN: What happened to “Ferdi” – the “multi-messenger”?

by FabianBeiner on 4/13/2022, 1:25:37 PM with 19 comments
The website (https://getferdi.com/), as well as the GitHub repo (https://github.com/getferdi/ferdi) and the Twitter account (https://twitter.com/getferdi), is gone. Log in to the service is not working as well, of course.

Does anyone know why this well-used open-source tool is gone?

  • by rahpuser on 4/13/2022, 4:17:07 PM

    Now it seems like getferdi.com redirects to https://rambox.app/.. looking very similar to what ferdi was. Is this like a new version ?

  • by k_ on 4/13/2022, 2:05:53 PM

    I have no idea why it happened, but there are still some forks [0] around, the last updated one I saw being [1], updated 5 months ago. The opencollective page [2] seems to be still up, with a balance of zero.

    [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201027131828/https://github.co... [1]: https://github.com/aarongraham9/ferdi [2]: https://opencollective.com/getferdi

  • by mdaniel on 4/13/2022, 7:55:08 PM

    Ha, my r/DataHoarder tendency shines through; my local mirror of the "getferdi" org has up until Mar 21st

        $ git --git-dir=ferdi/.git log -1 origin/develop
    commit e300c01b46ec94fa46c91ce60c548335d5e30fab (origin/develop, origin/HEAD)
    Author: github-actions <github-actions@github.com>
    Date:   Mon Mar 21 00:29:48 2022 +0000

        Update submodules, browserslist data updates and linter fixes [skip ci]

    $ git --git-dir=server/.git log -1 origin/master
    commit 3a3860c65a1a492ff9ab1515731cd0c8e12b30e9 (tag: v1.3.2, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
    Author: kytwb <kytwb@pm.me>
    Date:   Mon Mar 14 15:36:34 2022 +0100

        1.3.2

  • by rid on 4/13/2022, 1:27:28 PM

    Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31014222

    Website went offline about 30 mins ago, repo and twitter are also gone. Looks like it's been hacked or pulled?

  • by steveharman on 4/14/2022, 8:35:27 AM

    Website is back and login to Ferdi is now possible again. This morning I can login to my Ferdi account and https://getferdi.com/ seems to be working again. Similarly Twitter. https://twitter.com/getferdi

    Go figure....

  • by Riuaux on 4/13/2022, 11:28:09 PM

    Could be a "same password for all sites" kinda hacking issue? https://twitter.com/getferdi/status/1514338991419580420

  • by justforferdi on 4/13/2022, 10:18:01 PM

    I found a mirror. Who wants to join me? Copy&Paste needed...

    PS: has the last push from 20h ago