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
Absolutely legendary app and developer that will be missed. The animanga industry is ruthless.
We really need federated source forges on anonymous networks like I2P.
Developers have a right to eat and pay for a roof over their head. NC prevents that.
Donations don’t exist.
Then the devs could be anonymous and the their repos couldn’t be taken down.
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
This is why I need weaponized drones.
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.
The internet doesn’t “host” anything, as much as also Tachiyomi doesn’t.
The developers are archiving the project because Kakao is not satisfied even after they removed the default extension integration. Kakao have no legal grounds to advance more requests, but they can because for Tachiyomi’s devs this was merely a hobby and they are not interested to start a legal war, even if they would win.
