Telethon moved to Codeberg while GitHub archive misleads developers on top Telegram libs
Two of Python's most-used Telegram libraries, Telethon and Pyrogram, show archived GitHub repositories, but their actual maintenance status differs significantly. Telethon remains actively developed on Codeberg, where its maintainer pushed a new commit on 14 September 2026 and released version 1.45.0 on PyPI just days earlier. Pyrogram, by contrast, is genuinely inactive, with its last PyPI release dating to April 2023 and no notice on its documentation site warning users. JavaScript library GramJS presents a third scenario: nearly 900,000 monthly npm downloads despite an archived repository, leaving a vast user base with no way to file bug reports. Experts advise developers to check package registries and maintainer profiles directly rather than relying on GitHub star counts or repository status.
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