F<p>Tachiyomi is probably the best, most full-featured manga reader on mobile or desktop. The code is also clean and easy to maintain, a feat that I can only credit to the amazing developers leading the project.<p>This will definitely not be the death of Tachiyomi though. There were periods of time where upstream was on hiatus and development soldiered on in community forks (see <a href="https://tachiyomi.org/forks/" rel="nofollow">https://tachiyomi.org/forks/</a>). At some point I even maintained a fork myself that gained some momentum (eventually had to give up due to time constraints). Anyways, many of these forks are still well-maintained to this day so I'm sure users will always have somewhere to go.<p>Tachiyomi is dead, long live Tachiyomi!
This saddens me greatly. In my opinion, Tachiyomi is a crown jewel amongst mobile applications — a lot of my friends have not switched to iOS because of it, which should tell you something. I would like to thank the creators and everyone else who worked on Tachiyomi and wish them good luck with whatever comes next for them. Their work has made a small, but significant impact on me both as a manga reader and as a developer.
This sicks, Tachiyomi is one of the few applications that make me value having a smartphone over a normal cellphone.<p>Fortunately it's OSS and there are various forks already, so it's a bit of a youtube-dl situation.
The way Tachiyomi worked is that it used specially written extensions to automatically connect to different web sites that provide access to manga and download from them. I mean simply saying it worked kinda like web browser except if you had to download search engines yourself. And in that comparison any legal threats against it looked very dumb. Like someone said "If Warner Bros sued Google Chrome because it gives access to piracy sites". With last update they even completely removed direct access to download these extensions and instead you have to manually provide link to third-party repo with them. I really thought that big change would safe Tachiyomi from any legal trouble for a long time
One thing that I feel is missing is some sort of BitTorrent for git repositories, git already work quite well in a distributed environment, but it would help to have some ability for being able to push/pull in background, that would make code projects much harder to shutdown, the closest I have seen is a git repos hosted on tor hidden service, but it adds a lot more friction.
I recently installed Tachimanga, an iOS fork of Tachiyomi and was quite surprised to see it allowed on the App Store.<p>I haven’t tried any other comic reader, but I didn’t find the reading experience anything extraordinary. But it comes with access to bunch of extensions that all can download comics in high resolution for free.<p>The list of extensions are pulled from GitHub in an attempt to not have them stored in app, but it’s also the first thing it does, so any reviewer would necessarily have to download these too.<p>I’m not surprised they’ve been legally hunted by some publishers.
Really sad day for manga enthusiasts on Android. Tachiyomi was one of the most usable apps to read comic books and manga through local source and Komga. It is extremely easy to use and was literally the app to stay on Android.<p>I'd like to wish better times to developers and contributors in future. You did an incredible work that a lot of people loved to use.
Absolutely devastating-- Tachiyomi has been my go-to manga reading app for years. It's also one of the most polished open source projects out there and I frequently recommended it, even to those who don't even know what open source is. Thank you to every contributor who put their blood, sweat, and tears into each release of the years. I wish it didn't have to end like this!<p>As for Kakao, going after the maintainers like this was absolutely disgusting <i>especially</i> after they purged the extensions. I don't even think the music industry went after torrent clients, so they're somehow even worse. A part of me wishes they were able/willing to fight this with support from the EFF or some other org with a dog in this fight.
Man all my favorite Android apps are getting sniped. First Infinity for Reddit, now Tachiyomi. These apps are important since official apps don't have e ink optimizations (aka disable animations).
Sad, removing built in extensions earlier this week seemed like admission of guilt, at least read like the kind of concessions that would be favourable to kaka case and bite tachiyomi in ass.
This kind of stuff is why I use a downloader for my manga, and then host it all on a Kavita instance on my homelab, with a cloudflare tunnel for external access.
Isn't this the same fair use argument.
Why is this app getting sued for same thing.<p>This seems much more like Big Guy and Little Guy.<p>And Little Guy just doesn't have the money/resources to fight, even thought they are right.<p>""The AI companies also argue what they're doing falls under the legal doctrine of fair use — probably the strongest argument they've got — because it's transformative. This argument helped Google win in court against the big book publishers when it was copying books into its massive Google Books database""
It was always subpar, not because of anything Tachiyomi did but because of the inherent unreliability of pirate manga sites and their low resolution downscales. Maybe this incident will encourage some of you to self-host your own manga streaming website (for personal use).
Honestly, the Tachiyoma model can easily be legitimized. I'm more than willing to accept sources that add ads or even payment options to support the licensed material, but I want to use a solid reader that is user friendly and not enshitified.