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Yes and many PR's not addressed ... very interesting project but looks unmaintained.

It's difficult to maintain a project for 5 years without other contributors popping up to support it. I think Matt has not actively dropped working on it, but maybe his enthusiasm has dwindled. I'm not sure if the paid version is enough of an incentive.

It looks like they took a break this summer but plan to do another release of WriteFreely.

https://musing.studio/roadmap

https://write.as/blog/a-calm-summer-2022

Yes, the project is still alive and well! It also powers our very alive commercial service, Write.as, which has most of my attention. The open source project is just moving at a one-maintainer pace because it only has one maintainer :)

There will definitely be future releases, especially once we get through a roadblock with the tool we use to cross-compile WriteFreely [0]. Otherwise, anyone who wants to see the project move faster is more than welcome to contribute, especially with tasks like code review, to help clear out those PRs [1].

[0] https://github.com/techknowlogick/xgo/issues/155

[1] https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/discussions/550

Makes sense! Thanks for the feedback!

It’s in many ways also “done”, in that it pretty much does what it says on the cover. I had to tweak a tiny few things to host it on DigitalOcean App Platform, and plan to do some development where needed as I start hosting an instance.

I get the idea of "done" software, but this software here has 3rd party dependencies. My biggest concern is not that it's not done, but that there are security issues inside the release.

WriteFreely is not a tool that counts lines in a file :). It's a rather complex application that needs constant caretaking. Especially because it's facing "the internet" :).

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