carbon-app/carbon
:black_heart: Create and share beautiful images of your source code
36.1k stars · 2k forks · JavaScript
Avoid
Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since December 2024, and only 0 of 11 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Dec 27, 2024 (1 year ago)
- Last human commit
- Dec 27, 2024 (1 year ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- Jun 13, 2022 (4 years ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 8 days
Responsiveness: of 11 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 54 since May 16, 2022
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 10
- Contributors
- 180
Top committers
- mfix22: 52% of commits
- CrimsonTome: 9% of commits
- Amirosagan: 4% of commits
- ASafarzadeh: 4% of commits
- SayHelloRoman: 4% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2022-05-16T00:22:40Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 25, 2017 to Oct 22, 2017: about 1.5k more stars than usual, peak 262 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 20, 2017 to Dec 21, 2017: about 40 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 5, 2018 to Jan 5, 2018: about 24 more stars than usual, peak 27 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 19, 2018 to Jan 23, 2018: about 155 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 3, 2018 to Feb 20, 2018: about 3.6k more stars than usual, peak 701 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 29, 2018 to Apr 1, 2018: about 485 more stars than usual, peak 285 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 26, 2018 to Jun 28, 2018: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 8, 2018 to Aug 10, 2018: about 281 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 12, 2018 to Sep 19, 2018: about 845 more stars than usual, peak 344 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 12, 2018 to Oct 16, 2018: about 333 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 17, 2018 to Dec 21, 2018: about 515 more stars than usual, peak 192 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 4, 2019 to Oct 8, 2019: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 10, 2020 to May 12, 2020: about 347 more stars than usual, peak 306 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Aug 4, 2021 to Aug 6, 2021: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 18, 2021 to Sep 19, 2021: about 104 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 20, 2023 to Apr 24, 2023: about 160 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 31, 2024 to Apr 2, 2024: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 12, 2025 to Jul 16, 2025: about 214 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: carbon-app/carbon
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- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2