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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately alternative are closed source (ADM , IDM ) , I've heard that free download manager was open source but even if it's still , I won't recommend it because it was reported that it redirected Linux users to malicious links

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like the author is still active and looking for funding: https://github.com/TachibanaGeneralLaboratories/download-navi

But development seems to have stopped indeed. There is a fork, with new developers, that is actively being worked on: https://github.com/Davilarek/download-navi

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Not sure I would call that "active". No activity in over a year. And even that was just changing a couple markdown files.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For offline software I wouldn't consider it a problem, but for something that connects to the internet I would want it to have the latest versions of its dependencies.

It looks like the dev has been updating their funding details recently, hopefully they have an update planned.

https://github.com/TachibanaGeneralLaboratories/download-navi/commits/master/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've always wondered what's the use of a download manager, especially on a smartphone. What's your use case?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I've always found download managers to be faster than browsers in downloading

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ok, but what do you download on your smartphone?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Firefox's default in-built download manager is hot garbage. It is so much more reliable to download multiple large files at once with a resource-friendly download manager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yep same question