> As software gets more stable, updates should be less frequent. But a project like youtube-dl needs frequent updates, because otherwise it'll stop working aft

> As software gets more stable, updates should be less frequent. But a project like youtube-dl needs frequent updates, because otherwise it'll stop working after an update from Google. I'm not the parent, but the "a few months ago" timeline makes me think they switched to yt-dlp in December 2021 when youtube-dl did not work for a few days after it broke due to a change from Google. There were PRs quickly made to fix the issue (some of which actually predated the breakage if I remember correctly) but no one was around to merge them for a few days. This is also the time the project's maintainer officially became inactive[1]. 1: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6e70d51011cfb3fb86d84055182 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/21b759057502c6...