You can still fork from older commits. The state of open source is really unfair to maintainer. The more popular a project becomes, the most cost is involved

You can still fork from older commits. The state of open source is really unfair to maintainer. The more popular a project becomes, the most cost is involved in maintaining and supporting it, but all too often (like with redis, elastic search, and aseprite) there is 1 company or even just 1 person facing the brunt of the community and development burden. Building a community for your open source project is a whole job in and of itself. I love open source. I owe my career, hobby, and lifestyle to it, but the cracks are showing more and more. As a OSS community, we need to be more active in supporting the project we use for free otherwise what happened with redis is going to be the end state for many very popular OSS projects.