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Flat-UI repository is available again

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Good, LayerVault was really just fishing for some free ads.

None of LV's claims are true, the graphics is different. You cannot copyright an inspiration and not like LV were first there anyway. A lot of their gfx was inspired by some other work.

Did you miss the part where they included direct copies of the Designer News logo and several other of Layervault's illustrations?

I did miss that, because they didn't.

You could argue that Flat UI's icons were derivative works taking inspiration from LayerVault, but they were certainly not direct copies.

LayerVault's design's are awfully derivative themselves.

Yes, I never saw this claim til now. Link to source?

I missed it it seems. I saw comparison pictures [1] of the Layervault logos and the Flat-UI logos without spotting a single copy. I'm sure you have a source for your claim?

[1] : http://imgur.com/IH1osAD

Did you miss the part where they didn't? Here is a comparison of Layer Vault, Flat UI, and The Noun Project which preceded LV and Flat UI: http://imgur.com/IH1osAD

Sorry for the misinformation, I obviously wasn't paying enough attention to those claims.

Reminds me of a feud we had with a website called ChampionSelect.net

Back then my brother and I were huge LoL fans and we decided to build a fansite for the game.

You can see it here (it's no longer active):

http://web.archive.org/web/20120506035929/http://www.oracleo...

We used Twitter bootstrap for our UI and that other site whined that we copied their style. When they were just using the default styles.

... Really? Did they realize they were using default bootstrap? That's pretty dumb of them.

/LoL player here as well

I used to see that site a lot, then I mained Nidalee and hit plat l0l she gives no fs about counters

Nevertheless, funny story, I realized it was just bootstrap and it looked quite decent

Hey small world. I heavily regret not working on the site more, but when Lolking came out with tons of funding from the Curse network, I figured I couldn't compete against a team of programmers and designers working on it full time. I could only work on the site for a few hours in the weekends at best.

My brother and I are currently working on a similar site for another game, this time putting into practice all the good things I've learned along the way. We won't quit this time.

Yeah it happens, but at least you have the experience for your new project :p

I for one can't stop playing LoL ~

It would be nice if one of the parties of all this would put up a blog post explaining what happened (behind the scenes) and the conclusion to it all (how/why it's back up). It would be nice to see how it was all resolved and the outcome, whether it was good or bad.

It's not been resolved yet, it's only the DMCA process that's completed (send notice, github goes down, send counter-notice, github goes back up).

Cool!

waiting for pro version of Flat UI - http://designmodo.com/flat/

LV get free advertising from this process... i think this is just a wrong step from LV...

I'm just waiting for LayerVault to issue a DMCA takedown against the Art Institute of Chicago for hosting a work which despicably stole their colour scheme back in 1989: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/152758?search_n...

Maybe someone should do something like that to show how ridiculous DMCA can be

This is great, but does anyone know what the current status of the actual DMCA takedown is? Has LayerVault rescinded the takedown? What a ridiculous ordeal this is.

Since Designmodo responded with a counter-notice [1], LayerVault would now have to take it to court.

[1]: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6a33a213e04e7fc5e74ce3...

I'm curious about this. Is it on a company-vs-company basis? Or could LayerVault just file another DMCA takedown notice challenging a different aspect?

Say LayerVault filed notice on file A, which made github remove the repo for 10 working days from counter-notice. When back up, they file notice on file B, etc. Would this be possible?

By DMCA, the repository must be restored between 10-14 days in the event of a counternotice. Today's the 14th day.

EDIT: Technically, it's 10-14 business days, and today's the 10th business day.

Are you seriously requiring a tweet to get a download link?

This is a pretty scummy practice.

It's scummy practice to ask for a tweet in exchange for a huge UI pack that took hundreds of hours of work that you're getting completely free?!

Pretty much.

I'm not saying it's right, but it does feel scummy. If you think about it, it feels way less scummy to just ask for money. Asking for a tweet is like saying, here you can have this free thing if you degrade your friends' experience on twitter by a tiny amount first.

Do it a bunch and it adds up.

Whereas me paying someone one dollar doesn't degrade all of my friends' twitter streams.

I know I don't want to read people's "free stuff" tweets. I'd rather they didn't show up in my feed. I only want to read recommendations when they are genuine. Not when they were required.

The tweet is an endorsement of the product before you have had a chance to try it. This is why it is bullshit.

You could always be counter-scummy and delete the tweet right after the assets start downloading.

I deleted my Twitter account, so when people do this, I can't even use it to try to promote it - no less the argument that I'm not going to promote something I haven't even used. People do this all the time on Dribbble and it's really frustrating.

slmt, you've been hellbanned, nobody can see your posts (unless they have showdead on). since it looks like you're a new user, just make a new account - and try not to make any more posts like this until you've been around awhile and proven you aren't a troll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5164228

I didn't see any such requirement, simply clicking on the <down arrow>zip icon gave me a zip. github dot com slash designmodo slash Flat hyphen UI slash archive slash master dot zip

He's referring to their own download page: http://designmodo.com/flat-free

Ah. I never bothered to go there, since the HN link was to github.

Ill download the darn thing before it gets pulled off again, I really like style.

Just fork it like 411 did off of this:

https://github.com/iurevych/Flat-UI

and 133 did off of this:

https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI

It shows solidarity :)

You gotto love the answer "I definitely feel your frustration. The tone of this topic is not in line with the civil level of discourse I'd like to maintain here, so I cannot respond."

User is (rightly) pissed. Less piss him some more.

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