While we should all be grateful for the work the developer put into the project, it’s also not uncommon for open source projects to use life cycle planning to determine potential redundancies if the original developer steps down. As things stand, their contributions are likely to go to waste, whereas ideally others could have picked up the torch from where they left off, preferably with historical data intact.

With how important Fediverse Observer is, the developer should have made an effort to hand it and its data over to another member of the community before winding the project down.

Have you contacted them about the discrepancy? Ideally FediDB could just become the new Fediverse Observer.

Missing out on accurate data about Fediverse growth would really suck. 😕

Given that there’s an agents.md file, an AI usage disclosure statement would be helpful.