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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com
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    1 day ago

    Being “private” and having a discord is like an oxymoron.

    I only see a front end on GitHub. Is this just a libgen mirror?

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      1 day ago

      No its not a libgen mirror - we have our own collections and are torrenting from libgen + zlib aswell - and backend is going to be open sourced in the future once its finished and ready - right now the code is very janky and im too embarassed to release it lol. Theres still alot of additions to do to the backend and once that is done I will release.

      We also have a telegram and signal group - the discord was just for my existing community who are primarily discord users aswell

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        5 hours ago

        The backend is so janky that you are embarrassed to release it? I’m all for free knowledge but that is concerning.

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          46 minutes ago

          when i mean janky it does and serves its purpose but my code isnt cleaned up and theres alot of redundant code - im currently doing a rewrite and when that is done i will release it