TachiyomiSY is continuing, forking Mihon

OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 229 points –
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I love seeing awesome open source softwares continue to live after being bought or shutdown :D

But forgive my ignorance: why forking Mihon and not just use it as is ?

According to the comment above, added functionality that's not present in the original like adult sites. It was based off Tachy and now just moved to Mihon as the base.

What is this open-source software for?

It's a reader app that supports extensions.

These extensions can be used to parse piracy sites, among other things, so a publisher went apeshit and harassed them into saying "fuck it".

Mihon/Tachiyomi base with some specialized feature for certain adult manga sites.