Uriel the FlameVeteran
Just in case you are not aware there is a recent reddit thread on r/Eve about your new release:
TL:DR: Roughly a week ago, Alia Collins released a version of EveMon as a fork of Peter Han’s original version to much fanfare. They claim to be reviving a dead project, however EveMon has been alive and maintained at here for some time now.
The issues with this are:
Personally I don’t know the exact details to can make a proper elaboration who is right and what nuances are there to support either side, but it is irrelevant as well.
Just linking this so you can address the situation in case you aren’t aware of it yet as well as people can learn about it and do their own research regarding the subject and come to their own conclusions.
Hey, thanks for letting me know about this. I appreciate you keeping it neutral and letting people make up their own minds. I had missed this.
I originally downloaded the ZIP to my machine just to play around with it. I never expected to actually get it working, but it did, and I pushed it out. Beginner mistake, I didn’t realize downloading the ZIP instead of properly forking would strip the commit history.
In my mind, I had done the right thing made it available under GPL and credited Peter Han and the original EVEMon team. Technically not wrong, but I get the sentiment. The history has since been grafted back. You can check the Edit on the reddit post as well.
This drama has been following me since day one of the fork. I plan to keep updating it. If people use it, great. If they want to use other forks, that’s fine too.
There has been group of people have been relentlessly attacking me and pressuring me to push my code into the other fork. That’s not right either, If I want to maintain my own fork. Though it’s demotivating enough I hope to continue pushing out updates. Yes, I used AI to help ship faster. In today’s world, if people are against that, that’s fine too.
I’m not here for drama. I just want to make a tool that works. I’ll keep updating it, if people use it, awesome, hope people get something out of it.