GitHub Reinstated YouTube-DL but Restoring Forks Is Apparently a Problem

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  • Gitea

    Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

    The gogs maintainer currently seems to not be doing much with it and seems to be ignoring security reports. I would probably recommend the gitea fork instead.

    https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

  • youtube-dlc

    Command-line program to download various media from YouTube.com and other sites

    youtube-dl's main feature is its frequent updates

    Ah, yeah, now they do frequent updates. But here's a fork that I switched to for a while because the maintainers of the original youtube-dl were slacking off. :) https://github.com/blackjack4494/youtube-dlc

    I can't believe the level of entitlement that comment exhibits. :)

    My attitude (a bit tongue in cheek) is probably why many open source authors abandon their products. Too much work, no thanks, lots of bitching.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • youtube-dl

    Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites

    "I just keep a GOGS instance that auto-mirrors youtube-DL these days now, so I always have a copy."

    I keep this in my local crontab:

      ssh [email protected] "git clone mirror https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl.git"

  • yt-dlp

    A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

    youtube-dlc has been inactive since December 2020. Use yt-dlp instead: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

  • NewPipe

    A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

    And there are nice projects based upon it like NewPipe (https://newpipe.net/#download) on Android.

  • Gogs

    Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service

    Sure, I reported an issue to the Gogs maintainer over two weeks ago and he hasn't acknowledged it at all. Here's the public reference that their SECURITY.md asks for: https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/6534

    Here's another one posted about a week ago: https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/6536

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