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996icu/996.ICU

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996icu/996.ICU

996.ICU is a large, active advocacy-style open source repository centered on opposition to China’s "996" work schedule. It is not a conventional software product; it mainly hosts a README-driven campaign, a license, proposals, translations, and lists such as blacklist/whitelist/remotelist. It has very high visibility: 275,799 stars, 20,923 forks, and recent commits as of 2025-08-22.

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Stars275,799

Forks20,923

Default branchmaster

Last pushed2025-08-22T06:01:29Z

Best maintainedNone

Closest to upstreamLafcadia/996.ICU

Most feature-richIQAQI233/611Study.ICU

Most opinionatedIQAQI233/611Study.ICU

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IQAQI233/611Study.ICU

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substantial

Choose this fork if you want a more focused 611/student-wellbeing advocacy project with a custom web presence. Stick with upstream if you need the larger, more maintained 996 archive, translations, and reference ecosystem.

Likely purpose

To adapt the 996.ICU protest model for school overwork/mental-health advocacy, likely as a more focused public-facing campaign for students and their supporters.

Best for

Student-rights advocates; People organizing around Chinese education pressure and mental health; Maintainers who want a narrower, more focused protest site; Users who prefer a campaign landing page over a large reference repository

Additional features

A custom `index.html` web experience for the fork’s own campaign page.
Animation work in the front end, suggesting a more polished landing-page style presentation.
Reframed advocacy content focused on the 611 study schedule and student mental health rather than workplace-only labor abuse.
A more campaign-specific message and branding around `611Study.ICU`.
Extends or customizes major product areas around `awesomelist/` and `blacklist/img/`.

Missing features

Reduced multilingual and internationalization coverage compared with upstream, with many `i18n/` files deleted or heavily trimmed.
Loss of some upstream reference-heavy content such as blacklist/news/music/proposal material, making the fork less of a broad 996 reference hub.
The fork appears behind upstream by 9 commits, so it may miss recent upstream updates and curation.
Broader upstream organizing surface area like the large list/reference ecosystem is substantially narrowed.

Strengths

Clearer audience focus for students and parents who care about school overwork.
More direct, public-facing website presentation than a documentation-heavy fork.
Likely easier to understand as a single-issue campaign than the larger upstream repository.

Risks

Much smaller community footprint than upstream, so adopters get less visibility and fewer contributors.
Content pruning may reduce credibility for users who want the full evidence/reference archive.
Staleness relative to upstream suggests slower maintenance and a higher chance of drift.