During making of searchlibs.com I've came across some weird data that eventually turned out to be true. For example one complaint I am constantly getting is when people are searching for something and their favourite library is on the bottom because it had no release in the past year. So I've made a list of few of them to see if anyone would consider this as interesting as I do.

htmlparser2 (latest 2 years ago)

20M downloads/month. Active but without releases. Forgiving HTML/XML/RSS parser

Chartist (latest > 1 year ago)

100k downloads/month. Seems to be dead. Good charting library.

stylus (latest 2 years ago)

200k downloads/month. Dead or done? Alternative to SCSS/LESS

nedb (3 years ago!)

100k downloads/month. Dead. Embedded database.

blessed (3 years ago!)

1M downloads/month. Dead. Terminal UI toolkit.

Redis (latest 1 year ago)

4M downloads/month. Active, but without any releases. Redis driver.

Cheerio (latest 1 year ago)

800k downloads/month. Not very active. Scraping swiss-knife.

More to come, come back next week :-)