4 pointsby asimovDev12 hours ago4 comments
  • Anonyneko3 hours ago
    Yorhel is also the creator of ncdu (a visual disk usage analyzer terminal tool which saved me countless times), as well as https://manned.org/ (a huge man pages index). And in the VN world he has also done a lot of non-public but equally vital work too. Tremendous loss.
  • optionalsquid10 hours ago
    This is a huge loss for the visual novel community.

    Not just the loss of the person, but also the loss of the developer who was developing and maintaining what is probably the single most important resource for the community.

    He will be sorely missed

  • asimovDev12 hours ago
    I am sure there's some fellow nerds on HN that read or used to read visual novels and are familiar with the website

    Backstory on the website and Yorhel: https://vndb.org/d7#2

  • glpy2yi9 hours ago
    Re-hosting the site non-anonymously is a "funny" issue, because of laws regarding child exploitation material that stupidly get applied to victimless fictitious anime-style drawings, and even in Japan, there would be stupid issues regarding lack of mosaic censorship or probably even copyright memes.