I think that is a pretty normal OSS situation though; there's a fairly small overlap between who care enough to play in the arms race for Tiktok videos and people who want to spend their time updating youtube-dl. Other sites were regularly updated, so it's just down to what individual maintainers have time and inclination for. Tiktok are pretty active in that arms race, I can only suppose most maintainers feel it's not worth a constant battle for Tiktok content.

There is no "arms race", because the maintainers made no commits to the tiktok extractor for the past 8 months AFAIK.

And twitch, a fairly important site, was similarly broken for three months due to maintainers' inactivity: https://web.archive.org/web/20201002044125/https://github.co...

Your tone is unnecessary; Apologising before breaking the conduct rules doesn't excuse the infraction.

You're likely to get flagged and certainly aren't helping your 'side' of the argument.

That said, you seem offended that someone might point out that an OSS product lacked timely updates. I don't understand your position, would you mind expanding on it?

How is this entitlement? They are responding to a claim:

>The value of youtube-dl wasn't the software. It was the community. It was the ability to respond, within hours, to a change made on any given site. I.e. youtube-dl stopped working? No problem, file an issue, wait a day, solved.

I don't think you need to preach to HN the value open-source maintainers provide. I think it's fair to assume most people on HN understand this.