What a cowards approach. Closing up shop due to legal threats is one thing, but then just lock the discord, and official reddit so people can’t discuss the decision amongst themselves because they can’t face their own actions, what a bunch of sad sacks.
The days in between the last update for the app and this decision is comical. Just constant questions about this extensions change and people worrying that this was the end of Tachiyomi and the support staff literally saying “If you think we are dying then just leave” shows a toddler level of professionalism and empathy.
The Streisand effect of this all is great. I can’t be the only one that found out about this app (and the repos) because of the stupid law suit right? Amazing that they went after the container instead of the contents.
Can’t wait for Glad or Rubbermaid to be C&D’d when the cops find contraband in one of their bags/bins.
Okay, but why? Can’t you do that with selfhosted gitea/gitlab/forgejo? Remember that access to the instance has to be easy enough that normies can use it, so I guess having to figure out i2p is not viable
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.
R.I.P tachiyomi, I have used it for years. Kind of sad to see it go. Are the forks also abandoning development ? I have been using the TachiJ2k fork for the past 3 years or so.
TachiyomiSY will still be actively developed. No idea about J2K but I read somewhere that the dev will implement third party repo support sometime next week so I guess that’s a sign.
SY devs have announced to develop a new app that won’t be just a tachiyomi fork.
!@everyone Update we now have a name.
Mihon (見本), Logo is being made by the same guy who made Tachiyomi’s
Context: Coming to terms with the practice of ‘tachiyomi’ but not wanting to have all of their books flipped through, bookstores started designing books and magazines labeled ‘Mihon’ (ie. samples) for people who engage in ‘tachiyomi’.
more options are definitely good if the developers are different, i hope the devs aren’t burner out by developing two applications serving the same purpose.
I use SY and I get the sense that Bobby is more of a fast and loose type while the Mihon dev is focused more on polish. My assumptions are based on the unpolished nature of SY features and the Mihon dev saying “some of us liked plain Tachiyomi” [sic].
I just downloaded TachiyomiSY before a week and I liked how it was better than TachiyomiSY in feature wise. I think Bobby is a dev who focuses more on features aspect. So if the other dev focuses on user interface, I hope it might be a good pair.
Yes, but to prove that you’d have to go to court and that requires lawyers wich can’t work for free.
I say lets DDOS their website and services until they fuck off. They are a illigal monopoly as well in Korea but their korrupt system doesn’t do shit against them.
No no, throw drugs in their HQ then go after them. The precedent set is that the container is the problem, not the source of the illegal things itself.
The reader includes extensions that allow you to download manga from various unofficial sources. So their justification is that it facilitates piracy. It’s still the best manga reader (imo), but there’s dozens of other options for local media without that feature. There’s no world in which I buy physical manga or subscribe to 12 different services to get access to the ones I want to read, so I don’t know how much the company is ‘winning’ with this move.
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