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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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[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just put it in the comment

[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Jack you also big manga fan?

EDIT: this is RoBoT095 BTW from mc server

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 points 10 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?

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 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.

[–] TGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 months ago

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

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

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wait it actually got taken down?

[–] hikikoma@ani.social 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] thethirdobject@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 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.

[–] Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.
[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] spiderman@ani.social 11 points 10 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.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social -1 points 10 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.

[–] spiderman@ani.social 3 points 10 months ago

this doesn't have anything to do with github

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 10 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.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 0 points 10 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.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 10 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.

[–] 0range0281@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] ponchow8NC@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm a little dumb and late to this so please forgive me if this is not a good question, but can you not develop an app under a pseudonym or any other way to protect your identity or was this like they tracked each dev down, got their info and legally threatened them?

Edit: I'm referring to Tachiyomi I forgot to mention that

[–] Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 9 months ago

Defeat the fuckingcapitalists

[–] 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] spiderman@ani.social 6 points 10 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.

[–] T4V0@lemmy.pt 1 points 10 months ago

Temporarily, you can use this repo for extensions.

[–] Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ardi60@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

aidoku/tachimanga/paperback. google it

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

tachiyomi

Free and open source manga reader for Android.

(For those wondering what this discussion is about)