oh, ty!! not sure if the edit federated only after I replied or if it was bad timing on my part

ty nonetheless!

fluxer has existed before LLMs became popular, the history was squashed into one commit because the dev did not want all the messy commits they made from school (they submitted this at their uni or whatever) visible.

from the relevant blogpost:

I published the project with a squashed history because the early work happened privately, and I didn't want to make 3,000+ messy commits part of the public record. I'm proud of where things are now, and the codebase has improved a lot over the 3+ years it was developed in private.

Squashing commits during a closed source to open source transition is common practice, and it doesn't imply the project was vibe-coded.

https://blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-fluxer-a-discord-like-chat-app/

try replying to this I dare you :3