DuckDuckHack: Past, Present, and Future

Over the past five years, more than 1,500 contributors formed an amazing open source community called DuckDuckHack that, together, produced over 1,200 instant answers for DuckDuckGo. That's over 5,000 pull requests, 250,000 lines of code and hundreds of squashed bugs! You can see all of those Instant Answers at: https://duck.co/ia. This is nothing short of amazing, and we are extremely grateful for everyone who has participated, from the passing commenters all the way to our Community Leaders.

For all of its good qualities, though, DuckDuckHack is still too complex. The contribution process can be difficult and awkward. Existing tools and processes unfortunately do not fully support our vision of community-powered Instant Answers at scale.

Therefore, we're putting DuckDuckHack into maintenance mode while we consider improving the contribution process.