[thayne]

You could add your own banner that makes it clear what the status and expectations of the project are. In fact, that is probably a valuable thing to do if the project is archived too.

If you archive it, then sure user's are less likely to send you disrespectful messages by whatever means (assuming they can find such means), but they are also less likely to use it, because you have basically said "this project is abandoned". Which if you don't want users at all, I guess that's fine, but then I'm curious why you bothered to publish it publicly at all.

[altairprime]

The thing I’m publishing is currently the only public source of that information and code worldwide. For those who need it, there is literally no competition, unless someone else opens Ghidra and reproduce my efforts over several long years from scratch. I don’t publish because I want to play numbers-go-up with the world population; I publish because I invested years of research for my own benefit and wish those who come after me to have a starting place further along than where I had to begin. Sure, it’ll benefit users, but ‘on the shoulders of giants’ only works when you publish at all.

There are only maybe a few thousand people at most worldwide who could benefit from what I’m doing, and only 1% of them might actually go looking for this. Can you imagine working as an open source maintainer on a project with a hard cap on audience size of a hundred people? Seems fine to me; I’m one of those hundred, after all :)