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Fucking pieces of shit. Should not be this angry while drunk at nearly 4 in the night.
It won't be as collaboratively maintained. It means that any new services won't be part of youtube-dl and instead we'll have to depend on the state of the repo as it was today when it got taken down. Also, any modifications to existing services will break youtube-dl as it is right now. Not ideal, just means that people who have coding skills will keep updating their own local copies, but the ones not in the know will have to give up.
OK, I stand corrected: this changes a little, because the next place the devs host yt-dl (gitea, self-hosted gitlab somewhere) will probably get a bit less contributions by drive-by github users, but you will definitely not need to maintain your own copy.
The communities are actively organising across gitter, IRC and matrix trying to put together a plan on how to proceed.
The original developers were inactive so it doesn't matter that they don't personally get involved. This is currently in the hands of fairly competent developers. I don't think there's any reason to worry long term.
Even if youtube-dl was wiped off the internet, there are also many other projects that accomplish the same goal that still exist, including Invidious, Second, NewPipeExtractor, LavaPlayer, ytdl-core, and many others that I've forgotten the names of.
It will always be widely available, this changes nothing.
It won't be as collaboratively maintained. It means that any new services won't be part of
youtube-dland instead we'll have to depend on the state of the repo as it was today when it got taken down. Also, any modifications to existing services will breakyoutube-dlas it is right now. Not ideal, just means that people who have coding skills will keep updating their own local copies, but the ones not in the know will have to give up.OK, I stand corrected: this changes a little, because the next place the devs host yt-dl (gitea, self-hosted gitlab somewhere) will probably get a bit less contributions by drive-by github users, but you will definitely not need to maintain your own copy.
Communities can converge again.
The communities are actively organising across gitter, IRC and matrix trying to put together a plan on how to proceed.
The original developers were inactive so it doesn't matter that they don't personally get involved. This is currently in the hands of fairly competent developers. I don't think there's any reason to worry long term.
Even if youtube-dl was wiped off the internet, there are also many other projects that accomplish the same goal that still exist, including Invidious, Second, NewPipeExtractor, LavaPlayer, ytdl-core, and many others that I've forgotten the names of.
I thought newpipe depends on ytdl?
Nope.