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Does anybody know what's going on with Calibre Web Automated? [Solved] (github.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been using this as my e-book library management for a couple of months now, ever since switching from booklore, which imploded a bit.

I just noticed today that it hasn't shipped an update since February, and in fact there's been essentially no activity on the GitHub page since early February. Four months is not that much time without an update, but it is a pretty long time without any new commits. I'm not seeing the lead developer replying to reports, etc. Is this still an active project? Does anybody know? It seemed like there was a lot of enthusiasm behind this project six months ago, so I'm not sure.

Edit: There is an active community on Discord that is working on updates. There is a fork with bugfixes here.

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[–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

They put out a LOT of updates in a row a few months ago

Hopefully the maintainers are taking a break, and they aren't burned out.

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    • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe it’s stable enough! You know what they say. If it works, dont enshittify it 🤣

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    Part of what caught my attention is a feature that the current version removed with a note that it was being re-worked for the next release. It has been reliable for me, but there is also regular activity in the bug reports.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    CWA nextgen is an active maintenance/bug-fix fork, link: https://github.com/new-usemame/Calibre-Web-NextGen/tree/main

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    There is an active fork which job is to accept public patches before they are accepted in cwa. The fork acknowledge that cwa development speed is not that fast, privilege on stability.

    I switched on the fork happily

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