Happened to me multiple times

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

Keep in mind that software doesn't have an expiry date. If a piece of software is unmaintained and doesn't have an active fork but it still fulfills your use case and doesn't have any major issues, there's no need to replace it. Some of the software I use hasn't seen any updates in five years but I still use it because it still works.

Edit: As an example, a lot of people still use WinDirStat even though the latest release 1.1.2 is now 17 years old.

Yt-dl - > yt-dlp

OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

Simplemobiletools --> Fossify is pretty epic

youtube-dl moment

"PIN number"

vs.

"FOSS software"

Who'd win in a fight?

Mplayer -> MPV

sandboxie. The final update from the original makers made it open source.

yo but tbh this gets old.

i just want my stuff to update without me having to find out a year later its unmantained and had a fork all along.

or having to watch the repositories of stuff i use for signs it might be unmantained. i didnt know half the (popular!) stuff mentioned here was abandoned then forked.

libforknotifier when (or even how)?

Paperless -> Paperless-ng -> Paperless-ngx

It may be a game, but....

Pixel Dungeon -> Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Jellyfin

Even better when someone forked it away from proprietary, closed-source, publicly-traded, for-profit, US-based, account-required, training-AI-on-your-code-then-selling-it-back-to-you Microsoft GitHub forge/social media network often with vendor lock-in to some other forge without all that BS.

Gitea -> Forgejo, e.g.

Audacity -> Tenacity

obs-cli -> obs-cmd :)

rust™ -> crablang when

Synergy -> Barrier

RIP revanced extended.

Clementine -> Strawberry :)

And somehow everyone is still referring to the dead project

If you develop with MySQL on a Mac...

Sequel Pro > Sequel Ace ;)

rEIFt ---> rEFInd was this exact feeling for me.

it's a wonderful feeling when that happens!

What's a fork, I know what GitHub is and use it too. Just don't know what a fork is haha

Hyperion -> HyperHDR

See also: universal-ctags.

For me, it's MPC-HC.

Slic3r -> PrusaSlicer -> SuperSlicer

Me with Liftoff :)

But compiz...

We're current using bump2version, which already is a fork, but doesn't use toml and thus isn't very strict in its config. Turns out there's already a successor (forgot the name) that supports toml. Haven't had time to switch yet, but it's on the massive backlog of shit I want to fix.

vi?