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Happened to me multiple times (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by TxzK to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The unmaintained repo has a link in the readme pointing to the best fork

[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My dad comes home with the milk

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Lmfao

[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

This is the problem, making the fork known to the userbase of the original software. When the Atom text editor was killed by Microsoft we decided to fork it as Pulsar but it was an uphill struggle to really get the word out. We got a massive boost when the youtuber Distrotube featured us in an episode and again with an itsfoss article but we still routinely find people who have been using Atom without knowing we even exist.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

TIL Pulsar exists

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You found some more by commenting about it now.

But if the fork is on GitHub there are some ways to search for the most maintained forks, albeit not with the GitHub tools which is unfortunate

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's always the fork network graph, but it's not exactly easy to spot which forks are good, just the ones with the most recent commits

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, it's just that I have recently tried to find an active fork, ao experienced this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What tools would you recommend to fund good forks. I've had a Firefox extension or two but they've either creased working or weren't fantastic to begin with. Currently just using the network graph, limitations and all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

lovely forks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think somewhere in these comments was a recommendation, can't find it now. I opted to just follow each fork linked in the repo and check for an update date ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, first time I'm hearing about this. Gonna check it out ty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I never used atom, but I could use a new sidearm next to vs code (my plugin list is getting a bit ridiculous)

Is it (or rather proton) worth checking out?