The community left Namecoin to be forgotten
I wouldn't say so. It's much more the case that the community is waiting for the release of
the new Namecoin DNS apps.
I can tell you with certainty that if you can find someone to develop this and devise a plan, pools holding the majority hashrate for NMC would support the hard fork.
Namely antpool, f2pool, viabtc and kucoin pool and any miner with ties to China would 100% support this fork
It's not the case that someone just can come around with a GitHub fork and get all mining farms on board. I don't even see the need to change anything in the consensus rules at the moment. While the main wallets Core and Electrum could still be unlocked in terms of many hidden features, this would mainly affect usability. However, since all additional tabs and features (of both Namecoin and Bitcoin) de facto access the wallet from the outside via the RPC commands and are thus only graphically integrated, I prefer to offer additional apps as external apps to maintain compatibility with older and current versions.
Btw, for the readers, from the .bit Discord community - there are several German speaking Namecoin contributors, and for sure
domob is not the BM-man:
[img=https://namecoin.online/downloads/Dot_bit_Discord_2022_05_16.png][/img]