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.
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.
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.
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.
This makes me so mad. It's bullshit that they caved into the pressure. Someone with the repo needs to put it back up on GitHub or something. It's open source software, there is nothing those companies can do to stop us really.
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.