Is fauxbar still maintained?

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No update in 8 months, and a bunch of easy-to-fix issues... are devs still 
working on fauxbar?

I'd love to get involved if fauxbar gets moved to GitHub, where I do all my OSS 
contribution work.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ddascale...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2014 at 9:44

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Hey, nah I haven't touched Fauxbar in months. Lost interest, got fed up with 
Chrome breaking things and me having to play whack-a-mole to keep up with the 
changes when I just can't be bothered - not fun.

Would you like me to create a repository on GitHub?

I don't know what the situation can be with Fauxbar on the Chrome Web Store, 
and I've really just sort of moved on from this project. I still use Fauxbar 
myself sometimes but the effort of keeping up with the bugfixes just seems too 
much like work.

Original comment by herv...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2014 at 10:06

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Okay, I've created a repository: https://github.com/ChrisNZL/Fauxbar

I guess at this point, if you'd like something from me, need a hand, need some 
help, if you're stumped with something, tweet me @ChrisNZL, or email 
chris@mcfarland.co.nz, or post an issue on the Github repository, I think I've 
set it so that Github will email me if someone posts something. I don't check 
my fauxbar.org@gmail.com email address; haven't looked at it in yonks.

Having used Github for a couple of other projects now, I do prefer Git over SVN 
and Google Code.

As a small post-mortem, things that really grinded my gears that helped me see 
a decline in caring about maintaining Fauxbar:

1. When Google broke the ability to have New Tab Pages take focus away from the 
Omnibox.

2. No monetisation for Chrome extensions, only Apps. Google said it was in the 
works for extensions, but last time I checked you could still only sell Apps, 
not extensions.

3. Personal issues - I actually suffered from suicidal depression throughout 
2012-2013, but I've overcome that luckily, thanks to a lot of support. And 
having overcome depression, I've learned to stop worrying about things that 
aren't worth worrying about, and Fauxbar is one of those things I've actually 
cut out from my life. I've moved on to coding other things that don't piss me 
off as much frankly!

4. Setting up a separate email address for the project. Too easy for me to just 
not sign in and stop caring! Too easy to just turn off all caring and 
communication. I deleted the @Fauxbar Twitter account and the 
facebook.com/Fauxbar page during my depressive streak. Turned off the PayPal 
donation button. Just really felt like distancing myself from Fauxbar.

I think with OSS, it will always be there but motivation can sway.

Anyway, Fauxbar's on Github. I don't know where the Web Store will fall into 
place with other committers, or how it can work; I haven't looked into it. I'm 
not 100% sure I can be bothered uploading new builds to the Web Store based on 
others' commits. But hmm, if the Fauxbar Store entity could be transferred to 
someone else's hands, or if I can add uploaders to the Web Store or something, 
I'd be cool with that. Happy to help pass Fauxbar on to someone else who's 
willing to try and give it more TLC.

Chris

Original comment by herv...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2014 at 10:56

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Could I take over the project? What about the domain?

Original comment by j...@slabaugh.org on 8 Jan 2015 at 7:46