This list needs a massive overhaul

[Bilge]

I've only browsed a few sections, but immediately I am overwhelmed with:

• Libraries nobody uses (less than 20 stars) [example]
• Libraries not maintained for 3+ years [example] [example] [example] [example]
• jQuery everything (and this isn't even exhaustive; there are unmarked jQuery libraries lying in wait) – jQuery is antiquated technology, if I see jQuery anywhere I immediately drop it off a cliff.

For this list to be remotely useful in 2021, it needs a thorough clean out of antiquated and unmaintained clutter.

[gokaygurcan]

Hi,

jQuery is not a bad or outdated library. Yes, there're other ways to do things for sure, but that has nothing to do with jQuery's good/badness. It's still being actively maintained and developed. You might not like it or use it, that's your choice, but you can't basically shit on it. That'd be unfair.

On the other hand, yes, there're tons of small/unused/outdated links or projects in the list. There're many reasons for this, but first and the most obvious one is the lack of attention from @sorrycc. Without his level of permissions, we (@andreasonny83 and myself), maintainers can do only this much. I tried to reach out to him many times and asked him to transfer the ownership of this list, so that we can build some kind of a validation mechanism but got no response back.

You're not the first person asking something similar btw. If you check the old issues, you can easily see this topic was asked over and over: #98 #143 #438 #488 #504 #517 ...

Feel free to update the list, and we'll do our best to validate and merge those changes. I'm also personally not happy with every single JavaScript developer who started their new pet project to come here and create a PR to add that (soon to be abandoned) project to the list. Or when we say it's not popular enough to be in the list, complaining and acting like a child. Some of the old links were there before I put the checks in PR. And even now people are ticking the last item (which says this project has some hundred stars) even tho the project has only 2 stars, of which one from themselves. I don't know how to fight with this, and I have limited permissions. Suggest something and we can also give that one a try.

Thanks for bringing up the topic, again. I hope we can find a better solution this time.

Best,
G.

[francisco-lafe]

@gokaygurcan If I see a list of 36 pending PR I would definitively not submit a new one.

[gokaygurcan]

I can't push you in either direction, do whatever you like. 36 is just a number. It doesn't have any context. React currently has over 250+ open PRs. Does that mean we shouldn't contribute to React? But anyway. Thanks for your input.