Happened to me multiple times

Yt-dl - > yt-dlp

Simplemobiletools --> Fossify is pretty epic

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.

It may be a game, but....

Pixel Dungeon -> Shattered Pixel Dungeon

youtube-dl moment

Gitea -> Forgejo, e.g.

OpenOffice -> LibreOffice

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)?

it's a wonderful feeling when that happens!

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.

"PIN number"

vs.

"FOSS software"

Who'd win in a fight?

Jellyfin

Synergy -> Barrier

Paperless -> Paperless-ng -> Paperless-ngx

Mplayer -> MPV

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

Slic3r -> PrusaSlicer -> SuperSlicer

Clementine -> Strawberry :)

vi?

obs-cli -> obs-cmd :)

Hyperion -> HyperHDR

And somehow everyone is still referring to the dead project

Audacity -> Tenacity

Me with Liftoff :)

rust™ -> crablang when

RIP revanced extended.

If you develop with MySQL on a Mac...

Sequel Pro > Sequel Ace ;)

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

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.

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

gqview -> geeqie

For me, it's MPC-HC.

See also: universal-ctags.

Yes, and there's that small thing that's done in a slightly different manner that you can't change through settings and it messes with your muscle memory.

Clementine -> Strawberry :)

The next step is the inevitable death. But enjoy it while it lasts.

Neolink

But compiz...