TachiyomiSY devs have announced to work on a new "spiritual successor" of Tachiyomi

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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tachiyomi
Free and open source manga reader for Android.
(For those wondering what this discussion is about)
- I was wondering what all the hubbub was about the last few days. Thanks

Why did you post a screenshot instead of posting/quoting the text?
Text would have been more accessible and more discoverable.
- I thought having the screenshot would be more authentic. I would have added Alt text if Lemmy supported that.
  
  Just put it in the comment

ah ah that was so sure,
Thanks to them and others forkers 😎 .
Long live FOSS and EFF, and piracy mentality hell yah, 😂

Wait it actually got taken down?
- Because of fucking korean webtoon garbage of all things, just only allow manga and leave the manhwa crowd to find something else.
  
  I have never agreed more with a stranger on a topic so niche
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  Man that is nuts how thoroughly those guys are folding when they've done absolutely nothing illegal

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

I just refuse to update Tachiyomi so it still works for me.
- 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.
  
  Temporarily, you can use this repo for extensions.
- 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.
- Lucky... Maybe I will do that... Man this sucks.

- is it a tachiyomi fork or it just looks like one?
- Sort of off topic but I wish I had a kotatsu in my apartment. And an apartment big enough to have space for a kotatsu.

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
- It's not copyright infringement, so you can just tell them to fuck off and make them sue you. If they submit DMCA, you (and because it's open source, that means anyone, today) can counterclaim and it will get put back up until they actually go to court.
  It's just a lot to deal with harassment from a motivated company's resources.

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.

But is there a way to have it on iOS? Maybe a web app like wefwef/Voyager?
- aidoku/tachimanga/paperback. google it

- put the repo back and do what? you can make a fork before they take it down and maintain it yourself if you can. tachiyomi needs external extensions to do it's job, even if it won't be maintained anymore. and idt neither tachiyomi forks or external extensions will be for long too.
- Feel free to do so and handle the issues you'll face.

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