That drama has ended, he was demoted from dictator. Now things are chugging along with multiple contributors like most other projects.
For me Void seems like a very good distro, I think of it as a naked kernel with runnit init and xbps as the package manager, nothing gets in the way. It also has the nice property where the git repo is the distro in every sense.
While the problem wasn’t unique, the hostile takeover of the project was. The honorable and legal course of action would be to fork.
The owner had built the distro single-handed over ten years, and GitHub and Freenode helped to eject him from his own project, over his eventual strenuous objections.
Even that link doesn’t give a balanced story. You have to track down the founder’s posts to hear his side and to understand why he had stopped contributing for awhile.
