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TachiyomiSY devs have announced to work on a new "spiritual successor" of Tachiyomi (ani.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This message has been posted on their discord server yesterday, currently the app is being worked on and has no definitive ETA. We probably have to use other forks until that. I don't know whether I can share the discord server's link so not sharing that until a mod gives heads up.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait it actually got taken down?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Because of fucking korean webtoon garbage of all things, just only allow manga and leave the manhwa crowd to find something else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I have never agreed more with a stranger on a topic so niche

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I use it more for Korean webcomics than manga, there's lots of us. And kakao doesn't really have a leg to stand on with either against tachi, it's just that the devs don't want the hassle, which is completely understandable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I use it mainly for manhwa too, since it's really easy to find higher quality manga downloads compared to manhwa with it being webtoon based.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This was stated in their official announcement.

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Man that is nuts how thoroughly those guys are folding when they've done absolutely nothing illegal

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

legal battle is a headache for a bunch of open source devs who work in remote and communicate in discord. also having a legal battle will involve their irl names which is not a good thing for them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I guess a positive outcome of this might be people more seriously considering alternatives to Github. Something about MS owning the defacto developer platform never sounded good to me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

GitHub didn't do anything. This isn't because the code was taken down (it's still there, as are all the forks that are also perfectly legal); it's because the maintainers decided it wasn't worth putting up with big pocketed harassment to keep doing it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Based on some other article I saw on this yesterday, my understanding was that GitHub was likely going to take them down for the BS DMCAs they were receiving, but maybe I misunderstood what I was reading.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

GitHub (and everyone else) is required to follow the process laid out DMCA takedown requests. The uploader just has to submit a counterclaim, and they can put it back unless they actually go to court and file a lawsuit.

The whole process is dictated by the DMCA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

this doesn't have anything to do with github