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
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
GNOME once fought off a patent lawsuit, Maybe they could have partnered with a non profit related to FOSS that could have done the “heavy lifting”.
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.
There are already a few actively maintained forks of Tachiyomi. TachiJ2K and TachiyomiSY are two such popular forks which have several features not present in the original app. In fact, many hardcore manga readers in the community had already switched to them years ago. There’s also Aniyomi, which not only supports manga but also watching anime via extensions, the same way you’d read manga in Tachiyomi.
So thanks to the power of FOSS, Tachiyomi already continues to live on and you don’t need to wait for a fork.
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.
I haven’t heard of this before, but why is a reader a threat to a company? What’s the issue?
Absolutely legendary app and developer that will be missed. The animanga industry is ruthless.
Don’t use it but hope it gets the revanced/ cloudstream treatment and survives in another form.
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.
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.
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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.
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unfortunate to see, it’s been a great app for a long time. Anyone know of an alternative that’s good? I mostly just read on mobile through firefox on mangafire now, but would love if an app offered a better experience
There are forks (I use TachiJ2K) but who knows what their future will be.
