At the moment, there isn't a clear way to deprecate a DockerHub repository. Communicating that the container images are no longer being maintained is essential to the users for a number of reasons. DockerHub offers the archive feature to mark repositories as read only but that can be automated when you have about 20k+ base images hosted on DockerHub.

To solve this, I built a Playwright script that automates the DockerHub UI and mass-archives DockerHub repositories.