BookOrbit: The Truth This needs to be immortalised and written up with all evidence, so people can make an informed decision: NeonSoltice the primary developer for BookOrbit is the Former Developer acx10 (Aditya) From BookLore. They are not disclosing this information to their users and is financially benefiting from the back of this deception. This is not an endorsement or hit piece. This is NOT a personal attack of a person" . It is simply a detailed outline of a series of events. Culminating in The Developer, who I will wholly refer to as ACX, except where another alias is of importance. Attempting to hide evidence which to their knowledge would not be visible to anybody. I do not endorse, or have any benefactor of any alternative projects mentioned below, they are just relevant. There will be a clear distinction between conjecture and evidence. It is my firm belief that this information is pertinent, and the withholding of it is "intentional misrepresentation or concealment of an important fact." Potentially leading to the financial gain of up to a minimum of $545 (USD) as per ( https://ko-fi.com/neonbookorbit) In advance I apologise for the depth of this. TLDR at the bottom. Given events that transpired I tried to collect as much evidence as possible, that couldn't be doctored, deleted, or more in the future. Part 1: Evidence https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/releases/tag/v0.11.0 Firstly, We see here that the github account acx10 signs of their contributions as Aditya. For this release V0.11.0 and many more. There are no other contributors for this commit. All code belongs to acx10, and is signed as Aditya At Approximately 7AM (UTC) on the 6th of September on this post https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1w8hmew/ I linked this blob from the bookorbit website. https://github.com/bookorbit/bookorbit- site/blob/main/public/images/hardcover/settings-connection.webp Within the Span of approximately 20 minutes of this. The link was updated as above ^ To hide the Hardcover username that was Used as Below: https://github.com/bookorbit/bookorbit- site/blob/56675ddc8f7f8b4fe17630fb1fa8668a4b0a40eb/docs/public/images/hardco ver/settings-connection.webp This commit has been tried to remove, and isn't available on all platforms. But thankfully we have this: https://web.archive.org/web/20260819233253/https://bookorbit.app/hardcover/ #connect-the-account%23connect-the-account Pinning this for a moment -- Here is an internet archived link for the github. https://web.archive.org/web/20250730064756/https://github.com/booklore- app/BookLore?tab=readme-ov-file More evidence that Aditya is largely and wholly the main dev for booklore their name is wholly tied up with it These are some screenshots I made at the time from my phone https://www.reddit.com/u/BookOrbitFromACX/s/zwmwTQ8R3z The discrepancy here between updated 19 minutes ago, and last week. Is due to the fact that they. Went out of the way to hide this evidence. Clicking on that one commit where they updated bookorbit-site takes you here https://github.com/bookorbit/bookorbit-site/commits? author=neonsolstice&since=2026-08-31&until=2026-09-06 Which is completely empty. Further more we can go here: https://github.com/bookorbit/bookorbit- site/commit/5f96e318020bc35b18f9e3c735502fb8ff153437 https://github.com/bookorbit/bookorbit- site/commit/853ab48dfd7ecd726319b81a6243bd47698c228c https://github.com/bookorbit/bookorbit- site/commit/b320f10300f48c3113940b11e62aae1cf27a82ec These are the only commits between August 17 and September 6 (Today) You're welcome to see that there is no recorded change of the image. But as we can see from the website now, and its archive. it has been changed. In fact it changed essentially before my eyes. This can be evidenced from my comments in the reddit thread linked at the start. Think on that for a moment. Furthermore, Neon is really the only person. who ever made any changes to the website. minus two amazing people, who never touched the hardcover portion. Brooks here only ever did this single line commit. But to do so they had to fork the whole repo! https://github.com/bkjohnson/bookorbit-site as such https://github.com/bkjohnson/bookorbit- site/blob/main/public/images/hardcover/settings-connection.webp: thus each history: How bizarre... To briefly recap Part 2 - Criticism and Meta-Analysis WARNING: CONJECTURE Since making those comments and posts on this Reddit account a few things have happened. Firstly I received this comment "Looks like you're doxxing someone here, which is a major policy violation. You might want to delete that before you end up banned." and "Careful mate. Doxxing someone and throwing around defamatory claims is a quick acx is the main dev for BookLore NeonSoltice is the mainDev for BookOrbit acx signed some commits as aditya********git (with which there is some weird account crossover, but essentially ACX = Aditya) NeonSoltice Made a commit to the Booklore website that shows their hardcover account as Aditya******** NeonSoltice Upon learning of this due to my leak in the reddit comment section. Made a Commit to redact his hardcover username NeonSoltice Deleted Both commits. "hiding evidence" way to land yourself in legal trouble. If I were you, I'd delete that fast and your account too. You don't want to get sued, right? Edit: you're impersonating as well!! " not saying they're a bot. But well: (I'm not really a redditor, and yes it's obvious from my name what this account was made for.) I have already disclosed the stake I have in this as per another comment. But I will reiterate myself "What's your stake in all of this and why should we not be suspicious of a 1 week old account with a name like that? Did you make this user just to shit on BookOrbit specifically?" "yes i did. because of how reddit works you need to build karma and shit.. it's long i don't use social media because it's quite toxic... i actually made another account with basically no karma and did the same thing and it got banned u/BookOrbitbyACX . because i left similar comments like this and for some reasons it attracted a lot of (potentially botted) downvotes and got banned within like 12 hours (i must wonder why) i actually can't wait for my work to be done so i can delete this account (i hate it here so much) but riddle me this, how would you go about leaking such information if you had to? well your established reddit account would be a good start i imagine? and if you don't have that? then what. i have no stake in this game im just providing facts and evidence. as i said prior you can continue to do as you please as can the developer. But it's the right thing for stakeholders and donators to be aware of who they are giving their time/money too.. you can trust me as a person or not, i don't care. i just need the information to be out there so others can make an informed decision. But i hold no financial or intellectual benefactor or gain over any mentioned or other book hosting platform nor any self hosted project for that matter. im just a person who doesn't like fraud and deception and doesn't think people should waste their money on vibe coded nonsense. especially by a developer that has already fell from grace (for just cause) in the past. Said developer has every right to try and regain a better reputation. but doing that by deceit and defrauding people is not the path to do so. anyway go look a the evidence provided not what some idiot (me) has to say about it." "You sure? Bookorbit has many contributors whether booklore was one man show if I recall correctly." Well despite all the other evidence I'm glad we mentioned this! Yes I'm very sure. booklore was one man show if I recall correctly. This is not entirely true! But it is a part of the reason why it imploded. Feel free to draw your own conclusions from this information... But I wouldn't call either of these projects particularly "largely collaborative" janedoe's Commits 1 commit13,309 ++ 44 -- ???? Another issue, Which I feel must be addressed. Is vibe coding. This is no criticism towards the act. But now more than ever is a better time to address it. Let's make no remark of what happens between March and may here! Surely not significant. Neon Across the entire period. Makes 1035 commits with a ratio of 2441135/478127 = 5.105620473 ACX. Across the entire period. makes 921 commits with a ration of 768635/465599 = 1.650851913. now the fairest comparison as of right now. But I think it needs some re-framing. WARNING: Conjecture. Bookorbit was put into a LLM and said make this type script. thus was already a massive codebase. It would be more fair to compare say the last 3 months. of BO and BL Before today, and it's inevitable demise 498 commits1,651,697 ++203,092 --