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IvanK_net • yesterday at 11:26 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

By the way, PhotoSuite is just a stolen copy of my project www.photopea.com , which I have been working on for 8 hours a day for the past ... 14 years? :D

It was discussed here on HN yesterday and then, the anonymous person behind it removed the "Issues" section completely from their Github

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972730

https://replayweb.page/?source=https://archive.org/cors/gith...


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lewelove • today at 12:23 AM

Never got to try out PhotoSuite, looks like it really was just ripping-off your code, the repo owner already deleted it, and now it forks PhotoCraft.

I have a huge respect for your work on Photopea, been using it constantly since the time I completely moved to Linux a year ago. It has the best Photoshop parity yet to find! Would you ever consider to: 1. Open sourcing your work (partially or completely) under some kind of a permissive/copyleft license. 2. Rewriting some parts of the website that require performance as WASM targets. 3. Using any modern JS frameworks, e.g. Svelte.

junon • today at 12:37 AM

Hey, thanks for photopea. I use it frequently.

Can you settle an argument, perchance? Is it pronounced "Photo-P" or "Photo-pia" (as in "utopia")?

consumer451 • yesterday at 11:37 PM

Hey, huge fan and user of photopea. You are not far behind the VLC guy, u/jbk in my personal world view :)

If I may ask, if you were to do this all over again in 2024 - 2026, would you choose SSR?

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xbar • today at 12:01 AM

Photopea is a great tool. I am sorry about the ripoff by PhotoSuite.

sergiotapia • today at 12:07 AM

I remember using your tool a lot for years but in the past year or so the ads have made it unusable. It feels more like browsing ign.com with no adblock or something. Just brutally slow and intrusive visually speaking.

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