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Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 2 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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ofalkaed ◴[11 Oct 25 23:12 UTC] No.45553552[source]▶
Non Daw. Its breaking up each function of the DAW into its own application gave a better experience in each of those functions, especially when you only needed that aspect, you were not working around everything else that the DAW offers. The integration between the various parts was not all that it could be but I think the idea has some real potential.

https://non.tuxfamily.org

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dizhn ◴[12 Oct 25 10:02 UTC] No.45556922[source]▶
I've never heard of this software before. Any idea why it's discontinued? There are a bunch of weird messages that point to sort of a hostile take over of the project by forking, but it doesn't say anything about why or how it was discontinued.
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1. ofalkaed ◴[12 Oct 25 18:01 UTC] No.45560295[source]▶
From what I remember; it was mostly a one man project and he was writing it for himself, this upset some people and they felt his personal project should be democratic. It created a great deal of drama and he found himself having to deal with the drama every time he tried to engage with the community. Eventually he just walked away from it all. The fork died shortly after since the people who forked it were still dependent on him for development, all they really offered was a fork that was free of his supposed tyranny.
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2. dizhn ◴[14 Oct 25 13:08 UTC] No.45579580[source]▶
That's a shame. For some reason a lot of projects are forked by people with not enough skills to do any continued development. And some people seem to thrive on the ethical high horse side of free software.