No secret. It was mainly the ‘gridfile’ and ‘bucket_grid’ contribs that I wanted to remove from the contribs page of erlang.org. I considered the approach flawed and had no interest in endorsing them.

If anyone actually were using them, they’d have their own copies, and the right to keep using them and even share them with others, of course, but that doesn’t mean that I have to advertise or support these components myself.

What was the point of removal if it’s not a secret?

It’s quite hard to remove something once it has been put on the Internet especially open source software.. Someone might use it already..