I applaud anyone who makes a rational call to stop. We're all great at finding excuses to carry things on and on, and terrible at deciding to end.
With git/fork, anyone can decide to clone. Name aside.
Discussions (18+23 points, 11+12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468320
I've been using tt-rss.org for years. It's good software, but at the same time still feels kinda clunky. There much to improve still, so I would argue that there's more left in that space than bugfixes. But seeing that he lost interest is probably part of the reason there isn't much meaningful development on that front.
Anyway, thanks for all the work the original dev and all contributors put into it, specifically thanks to the original developer for all his time and effort.