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title: "Friends of open source, we need your help!"
date: 2025-12-29
canonical: https://solmaz.io/x/2005729271893881215/
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license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Friends of open source, we need your help!

A lot of Manim Community accounts got compromised and deleted during Christmas

Manim Community is a popular fork of @3blue1brown's original math animation engine Manim, and its accounts have over 5 YEARS of contributions, knowledge and following

Apparently GitHub support already saw the request and in progress of restoring the GitHub org. But if anyone knows how to speed this up, if would be greatly appreciated!

Unfortunately, the Discord and X accounts are deleted and less likely to return

But there might still be a way to restore them, or at least the data?

Re. Discord: Maybe @RhysSullivan's Answer Overflow has archived enough of the old server? That server contains YEARS of Q/A data and is vital for newcomers

Re. X: Maybe someone high up can do something to restore the account? cc @nikitabier 

In the meanwhile, it would help a lot if you could follow the new account @manimcommunity and share this post! Thank you in advance!

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