Sucks…
tl;dr
Tachiyomi will no longer be actively developed. It may continue to work for you for the foreseeable future but there will be no support for it nor the official extensions.
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English75•9 months ago
This is how FOSS dies.
Where the living fuck are the EFF’s team of lawyers?
I know they generally focus on US cases, but god damn, you’d think the egregiousness of this would get their asses involved.
- RobotToaster ( @RobotToaster@mander.xyz ) English23•9 months ago
Was the case issued in Japan? From what I’ve read the legal system there is famously one sided, criminal cases have a 99.8% conviction rate.
- ReluctantZen ( @ReluctantZen@feddit.nl ) English11•9 months ago
Kakao is Korean, but no cases have been issued yet right? Only threats
- PJB ( @pjb@lemmy.spacestation14.com ) English1•9 months ago
IANAL but since they used the word “threatened” instead of “I’m getting sued”, no case is being filed.
Pretty sure that if they were actually getting sued they’d already be radio silent.
- kikuri ( @kikuri@ani.social ) English57•9 months ago
One of Tachiyomi contributors will fork the app and continue development
https://old.reddit.com/r/mangapiracy/comments/195vq2e/a_tachiyomi_fork_hoping_to_be_the_spiritual/
- Chewy ( @Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ) English22•9 months ago
Hopefully their personal information won’t be found out by those lawyers, or they could also be threatened into stopping development. It’s sad to see how companies are bullying volunteers into stopping legal projects.
Edit: SLAPP suits are similar to this, where companies file lawsuits while knowing they’d lose, if the defendent had the time, money and stress tolerance to win the lawsuit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation
- AItoothbrush ( @AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip ) English3•9 months ago
There are already a lot of other forks no?
- LadyAutumn ( @LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English21•9 months ago
There’s already dozens of forks. There was before all of this even started. Sad to see it go, but the app itself and how it functions will pretty well certainly go on. Tachiyomi isn’t even an app that needs routine updates, it’s the extensions that do. So existing setups will probably work indefinitely so long as extensions continue getting updates…
So, sounds very “oh fuck” but for end users probably means literally nothing changes. Unless something breaks the functionality of the app, which really just means the reader and library and everything, it doesn’t need active maintenance. Bugs might crop up occasionally, but everything looks fine as of now.
- EstrangedMoistness ( @EstrangedMoistness@beehaw.org ) English4•9 months ago
For now, this is true. But those forks get updates from Tachiyomi (changes in Android / security fixes / feature updates / bug fixes) so they need a new base.
It seems important to follow the Mihon rebrand. Some forks, SY and AZ, announced they will rebase off Mihon (it’s in the #faq of the Mihon discord server https://discord.gg/mihon)
- admiralteal ( @admiralteal@kbin.social ) 17•9 months ago
This is a big part of why I dislike consolidating downloading and viewing.
I’ve been using PerfectViewer on a tablet for viewing for ages. I’m sure there’s a better one and would be game for recommendations, but I am very used to this app and its quirks.
There exist any number of ways to download and sync the chapters to my device. I currently mostly use the mangadex-dl script and a syncthings folder and it’s no trouble. And all my read chapters I can just move into an archive drive where I’ll have them if anything ever happens.
This is standard practice with media. You use something like MPV for viewing and the downloading is handled elsewhere.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English13•9 months ago
What even is Tachiyomi?
Edit: manga reading app, it also lets you follow sources and tells you when new episodes are published.
Perhaps one of the forks will take over.
- Gunpachi ( @gunpachi@lemmings.world ) English12•9 months ago
R.I.P tachiyomi, I have used it for years. Kind of sad to see it go. Are the forks also abandoning development ? I have been using the TachiJ2k fork for the past 3 years or so.
I guess I will be shifting to kotatsu soon.
- baduhai ( @baduhai@sopuli.xyz ) English11•9 months ago
Here’s to hoping j2k stays actively developed. Unlikely, as j2 himself already had pretty low drive for it already. (。╯︵╰。)
- Most Auspicious ( @Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•9 months ago
RIP Tachiyomi, time to try out Kotatsu
- VCTRN ( @victron@programming.dev ) English9•9 months ago
JFC why? Fuck
- conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 16•9 months ago
Because even though it’s obviously perfect legal, getting harassed by corporations over a hobby project is a pain in the ass.
- TWeaK ( @TWeaK@lemm.ee ) English6•9 months ago
why?
due to recent events involving Kakao Entertainment Corp’s threats to both myself and others that have been involved with the project.
- Lee Duna ( @throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ) English5•9 months ago
Greedy, this is literally
You buy digital items but you don’t own them
You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy
- 6daemonbag ( @6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•9 months ago
This is obviously sad and frustrating, but
P.P.S. I think someone on Reddit owes someone else $100 now.
Where can I find this juicey reference?
- voxel ( @vox@sopuli.xyz ) English5•9 months ago
how wll this affect aniyomi?
- spiderman ( @spiderman@ani.social ) English2•9 months ago
in no way if the dev can still work on aniyomi
- Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) English1•8 months ago
Ah yes, this will definitely make me buy Manga and Comics now. Good job Kakao whatstheirname company. Stuff like this definitely does not radicalize me further. Pinky promise.
- T (they/she) ( @Templa@beehaw.org ) English0•9 months ago
I am a Tachiyomi user but honestly my love for the project diminished a lot after terrible interactions I’ve had in their discord. People were extremely hostile to newcomers and people were constantly made fun of by asking questions.