Both Hugo and mkdocs appear to receive more updates than Jekyll these days. I was in the same situation as the author and decided for mkdocs, because it features better syntax highlighting and customization than hugo. I find it also better to read for long documentation-like posts (have a look du.nkel.dev). There are less themes available compared to Hugo, but those that exist feel more powerful and complete.

(author here) yes, the lack of updates is concerning. Interesting, I will check mkdocs out!

Yeah - I’m still on Jekyll because of built in GitHub pages support, but if I was starting today I’d probably use Hugo.

https://jamstack.org/generators/ is a great list of static site generators.

Last time I was evaluating static site generators, Dimples and Nanoc both stood out for this recent-updates reason, among other personal criteria.

https://github.com/waferbaby/dimples

https://nanoc.ws/

Are updates needed?

They might be. I tried running it locally with the latest ruby LTS and ran into errors. It only worked with Ruby 2.7.

However, what isn't clear is if we need to discard the whole project and go to another one or just help the maintainers. I will see if I can help.

Maintenance is certainly useful even if there are no new features. I doubt the project is bug-free so no updates means no bugfixes either.