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I'm not complaining about the fork.
The old version shall add a big banner at the top that it's discontinued. You shouldn't have to open an issue to ask if it's discontinued. I still see people recommending it. Hopefully not after today.
I'm using floris anyway ๐
Kudos to the first release ๐๐ป
It's the nature of opensource, to my knowledge there is no official confirmation that Bromite (for example) is dead. Development stopped more than a year ago.
I had an opensource project many years ago, I knew I could not continue it for quite a few reasons. I did announce it before I stopped, but not everyone can.
My project was picked up and is much better than what I ever did with it.
Thx, I understand.
I have a couple of old projects, if anyone would open an issue or pr i'd respond. The code still works, it's just not updated and uses old depenencies.
If people still open issues and/or pull requests, maybe you should consider announcing that you won't take care of it anymore. People spend time opening them and screaming into the void isn't nice.
If you have a project which is used by thousands or millions, it may be useful to announce that you won't take care of it anymore such that someone else can take your place. It happened but anyone who is not following news everyday on forums uses an old browser now.
I agree with you, and thank you for your work.
With my own project I no longer had the time, and a multinational was going to release it (based on what I had put online). So, I published everything I had and did a copyleft license. The multinational still made money, but could not patent it. Cottage industries still use it and you could make it right now with some soldering skills and a Mouser BOM.
The original product could be strictly physical, though it lacked quite a bit of functionality, adding a few chips or an SBC vastly improved its performance.
That's great if you can still maintain your project, not everyone can though. In some ways I wish I was still in the thick of things, but I can't be, and like I said it has moved on. My project is probably better now that I am no longer involved. Other people have moved it places I did not consider. I think that's great. I still check in from time to time and provide guidance if asked, mostly I let it run its course.
the street finds its own use for things -William Gibson
Sorry for the overly wordy nonsense