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mysociety / yournextrepresentative

A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Why is the project abandoned? #1002

Closed angryziber closed 4 years ago

angryziber commented 4 years ago

Hi! I had the idea to build a similar platform and found this one. However, it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. Why? What didn't work?

struan commented 4 years ago

It did, and does work fine. mySociety stopped working on this as we didn't have the resources to carry on maintaining it. However Democracy Club in the UK have continued to develop it for use in UK elections, along with a number of other tools that use the information gathered using yournextrepresentative. You can find the current codebase here:

https://github.com/DemocracyClub/yournextrepresentative

And details about DemocracyClub here:

https://democracyclub.org.uk/