Download Navi hasn't been updated in 3 years. Will it be a security risk if I keep using it? Are there any good alternatives if it is a risk? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] peregus@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

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

[-] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours 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.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 20 points 2 days ago

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

[-] SatyrSack@feddit.org 23 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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/