Just to add that it was the worst performer because the tester made some mistake when doing said markdown test. When he corrected the test it was nowhere near the worst, but it was already to late.

Some people (tester included) tried to reason with the dev, but to no avail. I think he was scared because he was using his real name in github, and didn't want to have bad code in his résumé or something like that.

IMHO, the dev overreacted. But it's his project so it's is decision.

Some people forked the project before it went down, so maybe we can see a comeback in the future.

The dev for Raccoon also had a Lemmy community to announce updates and things (he also deleted that community). Before he deleted it, he said that post about markdown support was the last straw and he was done with it. He announced he was going to delete everything related to Raccoon and it was all gone within like 12 hours of him saying that. He said any of the forks of his app can continue development, but since he deleted the entire repo with very little warning I don't know if any of those forks were current with the latest commit before the parent repo disappeared.