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[–] VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 124 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 72 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My dad comes home with the milk

[–] roon@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago
[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

TIL Pulsar exists

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 15 points 9 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

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 5 points 9 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

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] flatlined@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] assa123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago
[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 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)_/¯

[–] kadotux@lemmings.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 9 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?