Maybe Anbernic couldve made a donation first

The users will suffer the most. I hope they can solve their issues.

All these fancy new DS hardware models and I've gotten lazy about my wireless multiplayer project I'm supposed to go research and work on lol.

I reaaaaaaaaaaaaally want to buy this console for family and friends so we can play multiplayer just like the DS/3DS era but MelonDS (and Azahaar AFAIK) only implemented the protocol over the regular network stack which makes it almost impossible to play over WiFi and just barely doable over Ethernet because the DS needs <20 microseconds of "packet" latency.

AzaharPlus is much more comfortable for a 3ds user. With a modded console you can use FBI to extract your games to cia format and play them as is on AzaharPlus; instead of being forced to decrypt it on an external tool which adds one unnecessary step to Azahar

Hardware is still there and probably worth supporting. Users are not going anywhere, and it wasn't their fault that Anbernic (or rather, their PR person) decided to promote their new product with something that works easier for the end user.

Also I'm just wondering how it would end if AzaharPlus would be called differently, without "Azahar" in its title. Would they still blame Anbernic? Would they blame that fork authors instead for basically the same thing they did themselves with Citra?

unofficial fork? its an unofficial emulator. What does unofficial fork mean? what is an official fork? It's open source. someone forked it and doing their own thing. It's also fine for the Azahar to stop supporting the anberric handhelds. That's how open source works.

Speaking of Citra.

Does anyone know a place to download "Citra-Nightly-1782.AppImage"?

It is the last version that supports OpenGL 3.3 and the Linux binary won't run without outdated libraries that are themselves difficult to obtain. But the appimage bundles its dependencies.

This archive.org page has copies of every release except the AppImage.

This page links to the AppImage but the link is dead.