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 22 points 2 months 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 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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/

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] maliciousonion@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months 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.

[–] Stomata@buddyverse.one 1 points 2 months ago

Yep same question

[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok, but what do you download on your smartphone?

[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month ago

Movies , audiobooks ,rarely apks and PDFs