With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and “came out of nowhere” with its impressive scale.

To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.

Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn’t necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.

If you do have an answer I’d appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.

  • @Xeroxchasechase
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    193 months ago

    Thunderbird for sure. It had a major ui overhaul and now it’s going through a rennisance

    • @Ugurcan
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      33 months ago

      I happen to use it after the last year’s UI update but UX still needed a lot of work. Did that improved too?

      • @Xeroxchasechase
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        23 months ago

        Personally I enjoy using it now, but it still has it’s issues