 On August 8, 2015, the website of the original Popcorn Time application was redirected to the popcorntime.io website.A few days later, members of the original Popcorn Time project announced that they would endorse the popcorntime.io project as the successor to the original discontinued Popcorn Time.After the original developers discontinued the program, other teams forked the original Popcorn Time source code and continued development independently.