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
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.
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.
The internet hosts piracy websites. Time to shutdown public internet.
Also for those with copium, Barinsta was never developed again. Say goodbyes to Tachiyomi.
Computers facilitate piracy: ban all computers.
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.
People really have trouble detecting sarcasm, or reading between the lines these days.
Absolutely legendary app and developer that will be missed. The animanga industry is ruthless.
We really need federated source forges on anonymous networks like I2P.
Unironically thank you for licensing your comments! :)
Thank you for creating Linux, mista Linyos Torovoltos.
I saw this as Jo-ever, and not J’over.
Its a damnshame but totally understandable. Surprised it went on so long
