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Every so often, I revisit the collection of apps I monitor for selfh.st/apps to flag projects that are no longer maintained and prevent them from being recommended to readers (some day I'll get around to creating a separate view for them).

Given the relatively slow news week, I thought I'd pay tribute to a few of these projects.

In alphabetical order:

• Commento: Popular commenting platform for blogs before built-in comments became the norm
• CouchPotato: Media downloader before the *arrs were a thing
• Gelli: A very early and capable Jellyfin music client for Android that pioneered the way for many modern clients
• kbin: The OG content aggregation service (aside from Lemmy) that was popular during the Reddit exodus and the foundation for mbin
• Librum: Minimal, modern e-book reader known for its clean interface
• Pinry: The closest 1:1 alternative to Pinterest (image boards) before bookmarking and read-later platforms took off
• Self-Hosted Gateway: Tunneling alternative to Cloudflare and Tailscale (that now links to a Minecraft server project?)
• Sheetable: Music sheet organization platform that (to my knowledge) doesn't have a modern open source replacement
• Yacht: Container management platform before container management platforms were cool (although I'm not sure this one ever left beta)

Similarly, here are a few projects that made a splash at launch but never received more than 1-2 months of development (what we'd call the AI effect today):

• Gmail Cleaner: Web-based interface for cleaning Gmail mailboxes
• MedAssist: Medication tracking and reminders
• Metadata Remote: Web-based music metadata editor
• pad.ws: Whiteboard as an IDE
• Subvert: Video AI subtitle, chapter, and summary generator

And lastly, an honorable mention: the DumbWare suite of apps. They aren't technically unmaintained, but much of the hype has fizzled after a short burst of app launches last year. According to the project's Discord, the developer recently had a baby and is taking time off to be present, so no shade from me.

In other news:

• The Open Home Foundation released their first ever annual report (tl;dr – 2 million active Home Assistant installations, new partners, and assumed ownership over key projects like HACS, Music Assistant, and Z-Wave JS)
• The new Euro-Office project dropped its first release and the LibreOffice team had something to say about it
• Pangolin (remote access) added support for web-based remote access (SSH, RDP, and VNC) in its v1.19.0 release
• The co-founder of Plex and primary developer of Plexamp quietly launched a new headless music player called Caldera Music
• Due to hardware shortages, the going price for a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB of memory is now $350
• A new open source git forge called gitdot recently launched and is taking the moral high ground against GitHub – despite the 15+ CLAUDE.md files in the project's main repository
• A Lemmy user tipped me off to this cheeky CLAUDE.md file belonging to Kittygram, a self-hosted front end for Instagram
• The latest version of Infuse (media streaming client for Apple devices) added support for secondary Jellyfin and Emby addresses
• I asked the developer of Poznote (note-taking) for a new dark theme and he delivered in record time (and with a truly groan-worthy pun)

Happy selfh.st/ing!

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