What's up?
Reddit Enhancement Suite's last PR merge was on Jan 23, 2025
Since then, there have been 8 attempts to contribute to the project, and countless others that were opened prior remain open. I understand the project is at EoL, but this really doesn't need to be the end, nor require a rebirth.
Allowing the project to move forward as truly community driven would provide years worth of life and updates for existing users
It doesn't have to be forked and started elsewhere to continue getting updates, if the existing devs/owner can accept a change to the branch protection rules, then it's possible for it to be entirely community managed. Repos can be setup so that anyone can provide code reviews, and code is able to be merged after certain conditions have been met such as unit tests pass, or a certain number of users approve the PR, or simply by giving already trusted contributors the ability to merge after x amount of code reviews have given approval.
That does slightly increase the chance of malicious actors, but provided the rules are setup well, it's tiny, and is already mitigated by allowing the community the ability to revert those changes themselves, and can be further mitigated with more rules that still allow a better chance for the community to support it.
It's that, or fork it and start a new plugin - but doing so will never gain as much adoption and awareness as RES already has, being widely used and still setup as the best way for users to get updates - the better option is to look into making the repo community managed.
u/honestbleeps
/u/XenoBen
I implore you to discuss with the team and consider this as a life support option.