Glimpse project shuts down

stalebrim

https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/

We would like to thank everyone that has supported our project over the last two years. This blog post lays out the current status of our project, the reasons behind it, and what the future holds for Glimpse Image Editor.
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Our problem was not a lack of financial contributions or users, because the project was still growing in those areas. Our main issue was that we could not find contributors willing to step up and help with non-code tasks like moderating communication channels, triaging bugs, fixing packaging problems, working with the GNU Image Manipulation Program contributors, monitoring our social media accounts, running servers, testing/documenting new releases, and answering questions that users reached out to us with. As a result, we struggled to scale the project to match increasing demand.
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It is difficult for us to predict if or when the Glimpse project will return. There are just too many factors at play right now, and we do not want to mislead anyone or spread any false hope.

Solarmass

According to the project’s first blog post, they created this fork because they did not like the GIMP name.

https://itsfoss.com/gimp-fork-glimpse

JoshStrobl

Wow almost like a fork over an acronym is a silly idea. Who could've ever seen this coming.

kyrios

Politically correct people often lack the most basic common sense and are looking for problems where they aren't any. There has never been any hostility from the gimp team towards physically disabled people.

They actually forked the software after getting this motivated negative answer to their repeated requests for chaning the well known and popular application name. If they really wanted to improve the UI (which wouldn't be a bad thing imho) they could have contributed to the project instead of forking it.