atom-ng VS web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

Well you can get arrested and charged for pretty much anything. Will those charges stick, and will you have to defend them is the real question.

As for CP, in the UK and the US there is the defence that you were not aware of the CP, you should be fine, but you may have to spend time/money convincing cops/prosecutors that.

As for the repo on my account that got spammed with reports today there are 2 things to highlight 1) the reports were nothing to do with CP, but “Sexually explicit content suited only for mature audiences.” 2) the repo was a fork of GitHub’s own (discontinued) Atom editor, it doesn’t even have the files in question included in the repo. The email I got (will paste below) talks about files in another repo that were updated ~9 months ago (couldn’t be arsed to look into the files history to see if they had existed before then and that date was just the last time they were updated). My fork was from 2022 when GH discontinued Atom (was still using it for a couple of projects, so took a fork just in case, but ended up never needing it).

So the atom repo fork got restricted (would need to be logged in to GH to access it) for content it for what I can tell never even contained any porn, lol. Guess because the user in question also had a fork or just a repo with a similar name “atom-ng” someone or group mass spammed reports on those repos, because I got 5 emails from GH all with 1 min about this one repo that had been untouched for over a year. Anyway enough rambling, what follows is that email. Note the yiff folder never appeared in my fork at any time, but it was still flagged by GH

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Access to the /atom repository has been limited due to concerns from our community that the contents of the repository may include the following:

Sexually explicit content suited only for mature audiences.

Going forward, users must be logged in to a GitHub account to view the repository and will be presented with a notice related to its content giving them the option of viewing the repository or discovering other content on GitHub.

You may contact us for more information or to request a review of this decision:

Appeal and Reinstatement

Visibility and access to your repository has been restricted due to reports of sexually explicit content located in the following directory: https://github.com/Alex313031/atom-ng/tree/master/packages/y... For more information on the relevant policy see: - https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-polici... Please contact us as soon as possible if you wish to resolve this issue and remove the restrictions from the repository.

This comparison might be useful to you https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

I looked into some alternatives a while back [1] and thought Neutralino looked promising except that it doesn't support node modules. I.e. you cannot use the existing ecosystem of node-stuff.

Still, glad there are many options for using web UI to create desktop apps these days.

[1]: Neutralino themselves link to this nice comparison table: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

"Web to Desktop" framework comparison: This repository was made to create an objective comparison of multiple framework that grant us to "transform" our web app to desktop application formats.

Electron lets you make you simple desktop apps using html and javascript, but you might get memed for hogging up too much memory. There are other solutions that seem to be better, but I haven’t tried them. Here is a comparison I found online

As a fullstack dev, I did try electron. but I am not Microsoft and my app was not as optimized as vscode can be. If you wan to keep using html, you may want to look into tauri or neutralinojs (among others)

> but it uses your system's existing browser

According to (1) that is incorrect. It uses WebKitGTK+.

(1) https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

Resources: Neutralino JS vs Electron vs Tauri vs NW.js vs NodeGui vs Flutter vs .net MAUI Neutralino JS Website Neutralino JS GitHub

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