I don’t really undeestand from this mail how is it not open source, but I am not well versed in licenses and technicalities either.

I am also genuinely interested in further explanation of this view.

I have my status bar on both monitors by default on Hyprland.

Sorry for the late reply, look for ILoveCandy option in the config.

You can have actual Pacman emoji for the progress :)

Why are they shut down?

No problem. You can use extensions like LibRedirect in order to make it automatically change SO to this one.

I really like using code.whatever.social as an alternative frontend to Stack Overflow. It has way less distractions and allows me to only look at the question and the answers and nothing else.