Vinyl Cache has left github
42 points by fanf
42 points by fanf
Is there a published explanation describing why? I scoured the site manually and with a search engine and don't see any posts motivating the change.
https://vinyl-cache.org/lists/pipermail/vinyl-announce/2026-February/000141.html implies it was somehow tied up with the name change, but there still isn't detail. I'm skimming the mailing lists to see if there's any more info - might be worth a second pair of eyes (ideally with a younger brain) doing the same :)
Edit: apparently not. Nils Goroll is on fedi though and could perhaps be asked?
This seems to be relevant: https://vinyl-cache.org/#years-old-and-it-is-time-to-get-serious-er
Contains an explanation for why they’re changing the name. It’s a Wordpress/Automattic type situation again where a private company has the trademark and could exert undue influence over the FOSS project.
It looks like they want to limit participation of bots/agents and using custom server gives them more tools for this.
https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/code.vinyl-cache.org
i don't like the new name, vinyl cache makes me think of a big stash of records. the music kind, not the http object kind.
"holds a lot of records". works for me!
you cache your records? the old ones are just thrown away when you buy a new one?
All the records you and me buy are a cache of the record label's master recording :)
The physical Netflix concept leveraged the households as extra warehouses/caches by allowing 3 DVDs at any one time. They didn't have to invest as much in central storage.
It wasn't done on a whim. Varnish Software screwed over the project, so they needed to pivot to a new name. Sure, "Vinyl" isn't an ideal name, but "Vinyl Cache" is at least very searchable.
It's definitely so much worse than "varnish cache", which is an entirely normal thing to say. Who doesn't have a hidden collection of varnishes?