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Firefish has been abandoned. (catodon.social)
submitted 10 months ago by jezebelley3d@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Just a headsup for any server admins running Firefish, apparently it is no longer being maintained. One of the core developers of Firefish has written about the situation in the link provided.

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[–] schwim@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The power of opensource.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

...is that it can be picked up and continued by anyone rather than lost forever, right?

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather go back to the 90s! The good old times, when devs can lose all that commercial software source code they are developing when the hard drive crashes! And there were no backups! Sorry people who bought licenses! 😂

Narrator: this happened more than once.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there a list I wanna know

[–] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

MajorMUD is the only one off the top of my head.