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Introducing a new open-source shadow library!
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Hey everyone! 📚 I’m excited to introduce Bookracy, an open-source shadow library dedicated to preserving and freely sharing knowledge. With a large and growing collection, Bookracy is (annoying) ad-free, non-profit, and lightning-fast ⚡—plus, it’s fully open-source and powered by a passionate community. Whether you're a reader, researcher, or developer, there’s a place for you here. Check out our Reddit, website, GitHub, and hop into our Discord to join the conversation and help grow this movement for open access! 🤝❤️
btw you say “ad free” but I can see an ad in the home
Regarding the download speeds etc, also Anna’s archive was faster time ago but then the more you grow the more you have to take care
So my question is, are there any plans for scaling?
i said annoying ad-free i should have clarified i meant no popup or redirect ads - and yes there are plans for scaling and we have a few different services like you saw sponsoring the project aswell
For your sake, I'd strongly recommend not monetizing the site at all. Publishers will come after you if you make any sort of profit from the site especially if you're located in a western country.
That's one of the main reasons Nintendo took action against Yuzu - they were making a lot of money from Patreon.
we arent monetizing the site - we still need a way to fund the project and snowcore have kindly agreed to give use a bulletproof server that we use for caching and proxying between our storage server
all money ever donated or gained is invested back into the project - we arent making anything
people are giving you way too much grief about other things, but you are most definitely monetizing the site.
ive made nothing from the advertisement on the home page - instead we were donated a server by snowcore to act as our proxy and caching server. No monetary gain has come from the advertisement and the storage server is paid out of pocket since we havent gotten much donations yet
my mistake. carry on.