Someone forked my React component instead of opening an issue

I maintain a small comic and manga viewer component for React called react-comic-viewer . The other day I was poking around npm and noticed something odd — there were three other packages with basically my package's name, published by other people. All three were forks of mine. Same description, same repository URL pointing back at my repo. None of the three authors had ever opened an issue or a pull request on my side. What the fork changed The oldest fork was made about three months after I first published, and it kept going for almost a year. Its version number ran ahead of mine at the time — I was on 0.3.5 while the fork was on 0.6.3. So I read the diff. Honestly, it was more useful than any issue would have been. The commit messages alone told the whole story: remove sass fix: support className props use Hotkeys and a new example file called controlled.tsx The sass one I'd already fixed. The className one I'd fixed too, about a year later. The controlled.tsx one I had never fixed. Not in four years. The part I never fixed Here's what their example looked like: < ComicViewer currentPage = { currentPage } isExpansion = { false } onTryMoveNextPage = { ( nextPage ) => { /* ... */ } } onChangedCurrentPage = { ( page ) => setCurrentPage ( page ) } pages = { pages } /> And here's what my component actually accepted: < ComicViewer initialCurrentPage = { 0 } initialIsExpansion = { false } onChangeCurrentPage = { ( page ) => { /* ... */ } } pages = { pages } /> The initial prefix is the whole problem. My component would take a starting page from you, and then never let you touch it again. It owned that state for the rest of its life. That's fine for a demo. It's pretty bad for anything real. You can't jump to a page from a table of contents. Syncing the current page with the URL doesn't work either. And if a chapter needs to be purchased first, there's no way to step in and stop the move. Every one of those needs the parent to be in charge, and the parent never was. Maki