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There are 100s of web based photo editors, paid and open source. How do you know they are taking yours, not someone else's or making their own with Ai?

I would imagine they all converge on common features and core implementation foundation

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There have been only two photo editors that fully support the PSD format: Photopea and Adobe Photoshop. When a new one appears, which fully supports the PSD format, from an anonymous creator, it is very likely a copy one of these two. And they usually name it Photopea-offline, etc.

but does it actually fully support the PSD format or is it false advertising?

This day in age, we need to verify ourselves

Can you show us an example? How did you verify?

The website is public, you can verify yourself.

That's the original, where's the copy, specifically the one OP DMCA'd, which is supposedly not taken down...?

I would think a github link would be easy to provide, sus that it hasn't been

I just searched "github Photopea-offline" and found one within the first 2 results. Uses "Photopea" name and logo.

Why is so hard for people to post a link? If y'all are going to be making claims, post the links to back it up. Then show how the code is the same. If the original is online and the copy is offline, that would seem to indicate a material difference (without digging into both their code)

This smells a lot like the Laya thing to me, especially with the astroturfing by friends and fans

I can post the link, but OP does not want to, so I decided to follow his request.

You can find it in about 1/10 the time it took to write this comment.

These Github repositories contain copies of my JS files (identical JS - letter by letter), with a few lines deleted to allow running it on any domain.

I wanted to discuss the behaviour of Github without giving these "projects" even more attention.

> How do you know they are taking yours, not someone else's

Because if the javascript source matches the source in the repo, then they copied it

it doesn't sound like that though and we have no way to verify

That's what they said though. It's the website with the ads removed

I guess if you wanted to actually check it then you could compare the javascript from the site and the javascript of the projects on github. Both are accessible

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