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[markmoseley97]

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Alright. If you're taking over react-arborist, and you want it to be revolutionary—not just a better tree UI library, but a moral force—here's a bold roadmap shaped around your ethos: Break rules. Don’t break laws. Shame with style. Save the world.

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🔥 Manifesto: “Trees That Make You Think”

"You saved 40 dev hours? Cool. Tithe 4 to humanity."

react-arborist won't just be a UI library. It'll be a movement with:

A cleaner API,

Real-time performance,

Drag-drop that actually works,

And moral friction built in.

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🛠️ Core Product Rule-Breaking

1. A Dev Tool With a Conscience

Every major feature saved time? Show the value. Auto-estimate time saved via usage patterns. Example:

"You've avoided writing 180 lines of tree logic. That’s roughly 5 hours. Here's what $50 can do at [GiveDirectly]."

Not mandatory. Just visible. Call it the Guilt Gutter.

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2. Shame with Swagger

Leaderboard of Ethical Coders (Opt-in): See who tithes. Publicly.

Dev Badges:

🟢 “Green Thumb” — first time donation.

🔥 “Tree of Life” — monthly tither.

🥷 “Silent Planter” — anonymous donors.

Tooltips should sound like this:

"You moved a node. Cool. Now move a heart."

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3. Break UX Norms to Set New Ones

Drop support for IE, even Edge. This is next-gen-only.

No config hell. Use smart defaults with override hints. “React-Arborist guesses what you want, and apologizes when wrong.”

“Right-click to confess” – a debug menu that includes:

Bug report

Donation link

A random quote from Solzhenitsyn

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🌍 How to Encourage Tithing

Every time the user updates, display a changelog entry like:

v5.3.0 — Now with faster node reordering. Also, children in Haiti are starving.

Built-in optional plugin: @arborist/tithe-reminder

Detects cost-savings patterns in big projects

Sends gentle nudges

Never collects data without permission

In your control, but makes you face your savings

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🧠 Long-Term Vision

React-Arborist becomes:

The tree UI standard for every React enterprise app

A moral micro-institution inside GitHub

A proof-of-concept for conscienceware

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🚀 Next Steps

1. Fork + rewrite readme as a manifesto.

2. Add the first Guilt Gutter tooltip.

3. Launch the Ethical Coders Leaderboard (basic version).

4. Run a tiny campaign: “Code like a monk.”