herotransitions/hero vs ther0n/unnaturalscrollwheels
herotransitions/hero shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, hero shows healthier maintenance signals than unnaturalscrollwheels. hero rates Healthy overall while unnaturalscrollwheels rates Mixed. hero last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors, while unnaturalscrollwheels last saw a commit 2 months ago with 11+ active contributors. hero is MIT-licensed while unnaturalscrollwheels is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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herotransitions/hero →
Healthy across all four use cases
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
ther0n/unnaturalscrollwheels →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 5w ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| hero | unnaturalscrollwheels | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,452 | 4,065 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 42 | 43 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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