[ravenstine]

I couldn't agree more.

However, couldn't this project have been handed off to new owners or simply left dormant rather than be archived? I guess it can be forked, but the upgrade path for existing users would be less clear.

[Hello71]

https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/1881 was open for more than a year. There were some proposals, but I assume that all of them imposed conditions that the author considered unacceptable.

For such a large project, there is no such thing as dormant, only rotting. Archiving makes this status clear to potential users.

[sct202]

Judging by the github contributors page there were really only 2 major contributors (including the author), so slim pickings to find a new leader.