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This research investigates the abandonment rates of intimate partner abuse (IPA) support applications, revealing that over half (58.9%) of the 197 tools analyzed are no longer maintained or accessible. The study highlights the critical issue of application sustainability in a domain where users are particularly vulnerable and reliant on consistent support. These findings underscore the urgent need for better funding and resource allocation to ensure the longevity of tools designed to assist individuals facing IPA.
Over half of the intimate partner abuse support applications are abandoned, leaving vulnerable users without critical resources when they need them most.
Many support applications are developed to help users living through intimate partner abuse (IPA). However, many of those projects get abandoned, because the application was a prototype that never got turned into an actual product, funding ran out, or the people maintaining it moved onto other projects. This abandonment can have devastating consequences because the users of these applications are vulnerable by definition. In this ongoing research, we aim to measure the abandonment of intimate partner abuse support applications. Our preliminary results with a dataset of 197 support tools indicate that 58.9\% of applications have lost support over time, either no longer receiving updates or not being available online at all.