alt Hacker NewsThere are countless applications out there still running on PHP, but if the community interest can't raise the required resources to maintain the tool, maybe it's time for it to die, or at least downgrade into maintenance mode so in time it'll become a legacy language.
If they asked harder for donations, they would surely raise enough for maintenance.
Plenty of companies can donate 0.1 engineers to work on php, if for no other reason than to make php better for their own use cases.