P.S. I just curious why in threads about GIMP[1] and Inkscape[1] releases URLs not replaced to each software homepage...
[0] https://www.leocad.org/docs/history.html
The other projects you mentioned are orders of magnitude better known and have been discussed a ton on HN. In that scenario we take a completely different approach. I wrote about this at length here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428. Funnily enough it happened to be in a thread about Inkscape.
When a project has never been discussed before on HN, we routinely change URLs to the project home page so that people get a chance to learn about it. In the current case the project had been discussed before, but only a couple times and not since 2017—that binds more closely to the "never-discussed" scenario than the "much-discussed" one, which is why I changed the URL.
If you look at the last paragraph of the post I just linked to, where it says "For obscure projects", you'll notice an explanation of exactly what I did in the current case. But the "no one is unhappy with the mods" part has now officially been falsified!