project will no longer be under active development due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp’s threats to both myself and others

In the upcoming days:

  • Our core GitHub repositories will be taken down
  • The official social media accounts will be closed
  • The official Discord server will be repurposed into a general community for those who are interested in staying
  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    It’s sad to see companies threatening completely legal projects, knowing that the volunteering developers don’t have the time and money to win a lawsuit against a large company with lawyers. It’s nothing less than bullying volunteers, or similar to SLAPP suits.

    Edit: typo

  • whou@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    i’m so fucking sad that a shitty¹ company was able to bully a 100% legal piece of FOSS to shut down.

    It is THE best app for reading manga, and it single-handedly started my love and (healthy) addiction to reading manga lol. It’s also one of the best examples on how a FOSS model is superior to any competitive proprietary one.

    I hope so much luck to the devs and every contributor. Their work through all these years is immeasurable. Makes me regret a little for not trying to contribute to the community with some code at a time I was wanting to. Thanks for all the hours of fun reading manga. I’m sure at this very moment people are already organizing a fork to live on Tachiyomi’s legacy, as is the spirit of FOSS.

  • Armand1@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    As someone who has used this app for at least 6 years, I am very sad to see this happen.

    I’m surprised they weren’t able to get away with it after the change in extensions a couple versions ago. By not shipping extensions that have copyrighted content that should have been enough, similar to how emulators, services like Plex and torrenting applications survive.

    It’s effectively just a comic / manga reader that can be used for piracy when the right extensions are added.

    Apparently that wasn’t enough, and I can’t blame open source devs for not wanting to start a legal battle with a profit-earning company.

    For now, the app does allow you to add external repository’s (list of extensions for various sources) that are still being updated, and I believe there are at least a few forks of the project that will survive for now.

    All I can say is great work to the dev team for sticking with us until now and I wish you luck in your future ventures.

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    10 months ago

    This sucks. Tachiyomi was by far the best app for reading comics, none of the paid options come even close in terms of options or ease of use.