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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] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

tachiyomi

Free and open source manga reader for Android.

(For those wondering what this discussion is about)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I was wondering what all the hubbub was about the last few days. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why did you post a screenshot instead of posting/quoting the text?

Text would have been more accessible and more discoverable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought having the screenshot would be more authentic. I would have added Alt text if Lemmy supported that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just put it in the comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Jack you also big manga fan?

EDIT: this is RoBoT095 BTW from mc server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not really, I just saw the post and thought I would offer advice on a more technical issue. Is många just Japanese comics though? I liked ATLA, but that's a more western perception of eastern culture than actual eastern comics, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Avatar: TLA was what actually got me into anime, which then got me into manga. But yes, manga/anime are specifically japanese comics/animated shows. While ATLA borrows quite a bit (imo) from japanese styles, it's distinctly more like western cartoons.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

ah ah that was so sure,
Thanks to them and others forkers 😎 .

Long live FOSS and EFF, and piracy mentality hell yah, 😂

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wait it actually got taken down?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 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 9 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] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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] 15 points 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 months ago

this doesn't have anything to do with github

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

“From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring…” – J.R.R. Tolkien

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I just refuse to update Tachiyomi so it still works for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it still works for you because the external extensions are still working, all we can hope is for those external extensions to work properly until we get a proper replacement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Temporarily, you can use this repo for extensions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Lucky... Maybe I will do that... Man this sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I did a bunch of downloading of stuff I plan to read before the extensions stop working. Should give me time to wait to see what develops until then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Thanks for posting this & to all the comments helping to clarify the situation. I though for a moment my phone was failing or something , sad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But is there a way to have it on iOS? Maybe a web app like wefwef/Voyager?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

aidoku/tachimanga/paperback. google it