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An Anonymous Coward writes:

With the first update of youtube-dl [github.io] since June of this year, the December 17th release [github.com] has a nice changelog, but also the Core Developer, Sergey M., AKA dstftw, steps down [github.com][1]. What will this mean for future releases, or is the project now dead?

Some have moved on to a fork of youtube-dl, known simply as, "yt-dlp."

Speculation: Considering the amount of controversial news the youtube-dl project has received in the past year or so, could someone with enough power/influence have "convinced" the developer to walk away?

[1] The correct message was that he marked himself as, "inactive", but IMO this may as well be called "stepping down."

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