Fca-Horizon-Remastered
A formative systems project showing API breadth, realtime event handling, community adoption, and the cost of long-term maintenance.
Context
Built while learning, adopted beyond the original experiment
Built during my early programming years, Fca-Horizon-Remastered expanded from personal automation scripts into a library used, forked, and redeveloped by bot projects. That history matters because it records both early technical curiosity and the responsibility created by community adoption.
System
A wide automation surface
The public source includes sending, editing, deleting, forwarding, attachments, reactions, typing, group administration, polls, thread and user lookup, history, search, read and delivery state, requests, archives, mutes, blocks, and realtime MQTT listeners.
Outcome
Community adoption with bounded claims
The repository currently records 20 stars and 58 forks, while public descendants and references show that the code traveled into other bot ecosystems. Historical npm distribution was reported at roughly 1,000 monthly downloads before removal, but that figure is labeled self-reported because it is not reproducible from a current public record. The portfolio does not estimate countries, Facebook reach, or total users.
Evidence
Repository and ecosystem evidence
The archived GitHub repository is the primary source for code breadth and repository metrics. Public derivative repositories provide supporting evidence of community reuse. These signals are stronger than remembered download patterns, but they still do not measure every copied or privately used installation.
Reflection
Why it was archived
I archived the project when I could no longer provide the security and maintenance guarantees its ecosystem required. The npm security holding package and malicious-package record are disclosed separately from the GitHub source because attribution requires a version-by-version package and commit comparison.
Result
Outcomes
- Implemented a broad messaging, group-management, thread, user, search, and realtime listener API surface.
- Reached 20 GitHub stars and 58 forks on the archived repository as verified on 2026-07-03.
- Historically reached approximately 1,000 monthly npm downloads before package removal; this remains a self-reported historical metric rather than a current public statistic.
- Influenced derivative bot and library projects that publicly reference or redevelop the repository.
Boundaries
Known limitations
- The repository is archived and should not be treated as actively maintained or production-ready.
- The malicious npm package record does not by itself identify responsible source commits or author intent; package-forensics would be required.
- No install command, live demo, current npm download claim, or Facebook reach estimate is published here; the historical npm figure is explicitly self-reported.
Provenance
Evidence ledger
GitHub repository
The archived repository currently shows 20 GitHub stars and 58 forks.
Review sourcePublic source tree
The repository exposes messaging, group administration, thread and user operations, searches, and realtime MQTT listeners.
Review sourceCommunity derivatives
Multiple public projects credit, fork, embed, or redevelop Fca-Horizon-Remastered; exact ecosystem size is intentionally not claimed.
Review sourceHistorical npm distribution
Approximately 1,000 monthly downloads before removal is retained as a self-reported historical metric and is not presented as independently verified current usage.
Stack
Technologies
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- MQTT
- Realtime events
- HTTP