This is probably the friendliest fork I've seen happen. There's even a comment where someone points out he's been active on other projects, and is thus alive and well and still coding, but just obviously ignoring htop specifically. The general response to that news seems to be relief that he's okay and that nothing (obviously) bad has happened.
It's nice to see users of an abandoned project happy that it's because the developer (apparently) abandoned it, as long as he's okay.
It's nice to see users of an abandoned project happy that it's because the developer (apparently) abandoned it, as long as he's okay.