It was a rhetorical question; the answer is no, old issues with no updates don't necessarily indicate anything about the health of the project. Different people have different project management styles. You use your style for your project, and Carson uses his for htmx. There's no one correct way to manage an issue backlog.

My project is really healthy then, as I summarily close issues as “not planned” rather than leave them open.

this year I created and released fixi.js, created the montana mini computer (https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu), published an paper on hypermedia via the ACM, got hyperscript to 1.0, released 3 versions of htmx, reworked all the classes that I teach at montana state and am planning on releasing a java-based take on rails that I'm building for my web programming class

i am also the president of the local youth baseball program and helped get BigSkyDevCon over the hump

i think you'd be surprised at how little time i actually spend on twitter