Mastodon: Is mastodon still actively maintained?

[SoniEx2]

I see a large dip in activity on the repo. Makes me wonder if it's still actively maintained.

[DJSundog]

The latest commit was literally within the last twelve hours.

[SoniEx2]

That doesn't mean it's actively maintained.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/graphs/commit-activity

What happened with that spike (almost a year ago)? Why was it just a spike? Etc.

[Cassolotl]

April 2017 was a biiiiig influx of new users. I'll bet all those new users brought feature requests, and the extra strain maybe exposed things that needed fixing or improving, and the sheer volume of people arriving and then some of them gradually or immediately leaving showed what could be changed to keep people around. Also I wonder if a bunch of new developers found out about the project and started contributing? So yeah, that's the spike - the Mastodon userbase multiplied in a big way, and that had various knock-on effects on the development of the project.

I guess if you wanted to replicate that you could do things to raise awareness of Mastodon, to get more active users and help them to stick around?

Edit:

10 Sept - 1.6.0
17 Sept - 1.6.1
18 Oct - 2.0.0
15 Dec - 2.1.0
5 Jan - 2.1.2
9 Jan - 2.1.3
19 Jan - 2.2.0

And Gargron, the lead dev, has had PRs merged recently and has a PR WIP right now.

I mean, this is the most consistently, persistently actively in-development project I've seen on Github, sooo... (Not that I am super Githubby but yeah.)

[Gargron]

Yes.