I don't want to revel in the fork's demise for any reason besides relief that it didn't end up splitting GIMP's contributors and community in a way that would have harmed both projects.

> we could not find contributors willing to step up and help with non-code tasks like moderating communication channels

Gotta say though it feels ironic that they couldn't find enough people to be comment janitors considering the whole thing was based on wanting people to stop saying a particular word.

> As a result, we struggled to scale the project to match increasing demand.

‘Glimpse didn't fail; it was actually too popular’?

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ChocolateGod 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

That's the thing, they didn't take any GIMP contributors.

Everyone that was behind Glimpse was third party to the GIMP project.

	▲	pndy a minute ago \| parent [-]
		This wasn't even a serious project but an example of malicious virtue signaling with a long-term plan for sort of hostile takeover. People involved just took the original code and replaced every GIMP occurrence with Glimpse, added new logo/icon and called job done. Then went to the news sites trying to raise awareness of the supposed name controversy hoping noise will discredit GIMP while they'll portrait themselves as the saviors, because who'd want to contribute to a software that has such bad reputation. Nearly every discussion regarding GIMP on hn will include thread about the name 'problem' and this is getting tiresome. It's been over 24 years for me since I've used GIMP for the first time and the only problem that exist for me was always with GUI ergonomics. You had to understand everything anew after being more accustomed to proprietary software pieces. My friend never adapted to anything else but Photoshop - even Krita is beyond her abilities.