Thanks for writing this up Justin.

My fork of the plugin is probably different from the others in that it's been modified in preparation for hitting the wp.org directory. In particular, I've removed the build-in translation so that GlotPress will take it over (https://translate.wordpress.org).

If you intend to run the Github version of a fork, and need any language other than English, then I'd recommend looking at the other two, and not my own.

On the upside (and the reason for the delay), when my version does appear in the directory, it will have had a ton of changes made to it, including around security, due to the requirements for plugin quality.