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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    1412·
    6 hours ago

    I’m unaware of these, but I’ll take you at your word. I still say even if the guy is an asshole, we still lost someone who was contributing. If he is picking up his toys and going home, we still lost a developer. I wasn’t there for those issues so I don’t know how they were handled.

    I’ll compare it to Lemmy. Lemmy devs are (sorry guys) I’ll say… Disagreeable. They are headstrong and definitely have their own opinions which I have different opinions are about. I don’t think we would be friends. However, look at what they built, and the communities we’ve built thanks to their work. They started all of this, and now we have mbin and piefed and others thanks to what they started, even if don’t like how they handle things. We should always remember that the people contribute, and that’s more than the vast majority of us.

    (Not directed only at you commenter, but everyone else reading this to share my point of view)

    • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 hours ago

      You may need to go catch up on this. The “dev” in this case caused more issues than they solved.

      One can’t be missed if one didn’t contribute to anything in the first place.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      It seems to me that having an asshole that contributes is a shitty situation, but each to their own.

      (hehe poo joke but the point stands)

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I still say even if the guy is an asshole, we still lost someone who was contributing.

      I use tt-rss. Tho I’ve never interacted with the dev personally, from what I can tell, he is kind of a hard headed, asshole. Still a great piece of software tho. Him being an alleged asshole doesn’t deter me.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        28 minutes ago

        It would if he was dumping huge portions of AI generated code into it the repository faster than people could reasonably review it.