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Booklore is officially dead (lemmy.world)
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According to the official Discord, "ACX has made the decision to close Booklore and step away." Some contributors are working together on an unnamed replacement project.

For those not in the loop, Booklore was an app for selfhosting book libraries. It had a nice UI. It was able to store metadata separately from the download files, so you could have an organized library without duplication. In recent weeks, there have been conflicts about AI code, licensing, and general Discord nastiness.

RIP

Edit: The discord, website and github are all gone. I found a copy of the announcement:

Announcement๐Ÿ“ข A note on where things stand

ACX has made the decision to close BookLore and step away. He has a partner, a new chapter of his life ahead of him, and honestly - building something that reached 10k stars and thousands of daily users is something to be proud of. We wish him well.

That said - this community, and this project, is bigger than any one person. That's the whole point of open source.

So here's what's happening next:

A group of the original contributors - the people who built a lot of what you've been using - are continuing the work under a new name. [PROJECT NAME TBD] is that continuation. Same mission. Better foundation. Governed the way an open source project should be: transparently, collaboratively, and with the community at the center.

We're not starting from zero. We're starting from everything this community has already built together.

If you want to be part of what comes next, come join us: ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://discord.gg/FwqHeFWk

More details - name, repo, roadmap - coming very shortly. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for giving a damn about this project. That's exactly why it's worth continuing.

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[โ€“] Internet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I saw the writing on the wall and tagged my 1.13.2 image locally. It's still running fine on my machine and I added his animated donate button to my filter lists on ublock. I'm going to have to backup this image and keep using it until it breaks. Hopefully by then someone has a fork.

[โ€“] vividspecter@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

The risks of auto-updating now include "devs losing their shit" which has become increasingly common.