[joshuanapoli]

Fork Freshness is poking at an important problem. If the author of an open source project stops responding, then there is usually no obvious way for the project's community to reorganize or recognize a new leader or a replacement for the project.

I agree with other commenters; I really don't want to talk about my dependencies on twitter to this bot.

[bullfightonmars]

This might also be a great way for the original creator to identify that people still find their software useful. It might help in handing off the project to an active community.

[tessierashpool]

yeah, that's an explicit goal: to surface the implicit/nascent open source communities that are already coalescing around projects.

if a bunch of people all agree that it's worthwhile to keep a particular project alive, and they're doing the work to make it happen, then they have something in common, and it should be easy for them to meet each other.

[tessierashpool]

author here! maybe I'll cave and just set up a regular UI. email might work also.

[abathur]

not entirely on-topic, but you're picking at another tendril of what https://adoptoposs.org is picking at