Just a PSA.
Sorry to link to Reddit, but not only is the dev sloppily using using Claude to do something like 20k line PRs, but they are completely crashing out, banning people from the Discord (actually I think they wiped everything from Discord now), and accusing people forking their code of theft.
It’s a bummer because the app was pretty good… thankfully Calibre-web and Kavita still exist.
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accusing people forking their code of theft
AGPL 3.0 license
Too fucking bad, pussy.
Hey, pussies are great, don’t compare them to that idiot.
Fair point.
Damn 99% of the time someone says not to use an open source product it’s because of some obscure drama unrelated to the actual program.
But in this case the dev appears to not just be using AI code (not great but debatable) but using mostly AI code and using AI to reply to bug reports. Not something the average person wants to be running in a live environment.
I haven’t used Booklore but the excitement around it was nudging me there. I think I’ll stick with CWAs slower rollout.
Wow, I was thinking about switching from calibre-web soon too… Thanks for the headsup!
I literally just got this all set up and was about to hook up my wife’s kobo to it, good timing for this to come out so I don’t waste any more of our time with this slop. What a shitshow.
I just spun up Komga instead last night (I was going to set up CWA but I’ve heard sketchy things about their lead dev that don’t leave me optimistic). Very easy to get up and running, pretty basic but it seems to work well and does exactly what it needs to do. I was a bit hesitant since it seemed geared toward comics, but it’s handling regular ebooks just fine.
Wait, I use CWA… What do I need to be outraged about this time?
I don’t have the full details, but I saw some mentions in that Booklore reddit thread about CWA’s dev ignoring major issues in favor of new features and such, something like that. I admittedly didn’t really do much research into that nor the tool itself, but Komga’s Kobo support seems better, so I just went with it.
Hmmm… Calibre web’s kobo integration is good enough, but Komga seems to be able to sync progress as well?
I might have to try Kkmga after all.
That’s not a reason to consider CWA unsafe
Thanks, that might explain the jank I got when spinning it up yesterday…I’ll be back on calibre web or trying another option over the weekend.
Good thing I decided against switching to it, even though my main reason is that my weird book organisation scheme isn’t feasible with anything but calibre or manual organisation currently as far as I know
Booklore is actually good though.
Much more usable than those others
Seems the guy has calmed down too.
he only said I was a dumb bitch and hit me because I told him I didn’t vote for Trump. he’s not like this all the time.
when people tell you who they are, listen.
