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by prepend 2344 days ago
If enough people support your idea you will get a new community around your fork.

Or you can pay the cost of bringing in changes from the upstream project. This happens a lot for commercial software. I remember having to maintain a “fork” of BEA’s WebLogic server for a year or two until they incorporated changes my employer needs.

It’s not so bad.