nickemanarin/screentogif vs nilaoda/bbdown
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, screentogif and bbdown both show mixed maintenance signals. screentogif last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors, while bbdown last saw a commit 4 months ago with 1+ active contributor. screentogif is MS-PL-licensed while bbdown is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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nickemanarin/screentogif
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (MS-PL); no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 66% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (MS-PL) — review terms
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 5w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓MS-PL licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
nilaoda/bbdown
Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible); no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3mo ago
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: onboard a second core maintainer; add a test suite
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| screentogif | bbdown | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 27,590 | 13,903 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 4mo ago |
| License | MS-PL | MIT |
| Open issues | 331 | 245 |
| Has tests | No | No |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 0% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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