Why even put a package download count on it? Just require it for everything submitted to NPM. It's not hard.

Because then it's extra hassle and expense for new developers to publish a package, and we're trying to keep things decentralized.

	▲	thewebguyd 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's already centralized by virtue of using and relying on NPM as the registry. If we want decentralized package management for node/javascript, you need to dump NPM - why not something like Go's system which is actually decentralized? There is no package repository/registry, it's all location based imports.
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	▲	LPisGood an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I don’t understand what benefits this kind of “decentralization” offers