Hi
@davidlevy, sorry to hear that you are having this situation.
First of all let me address that
@tomsit is part of the Community Staff, not the "company" staff. These are different concepts and he as any other "staff member" helps on good will. There's no boss-employe relationship here and he neither gets any money made by anything Chevereto related. At most, he gets money from showing ads in his websites and/or selling the websites that he builds (totally on his own).
After reading the reddit, some people is saying that the company is taking advantage of your idea which is just not the case.
Some samples:
Tomsit is a site developer that has apparently just stolen an idea from one of his own paying clients.
"from one of his paying clients"
buy their product, and then turned around and took your idea and marketed it as their own?
"marketed it as their own"
Ripped off the concept from a friend who actually purchased the software from OP.
"purchased the software from OP"
Just to be clear, comments of that kind are just wrong. Just like the comments in this topic:
https://testsquadron.com/threads/so...t-sharing-website-from-a-paying-client.14846/
Software Developer of Chevereto steals SC screenshot sharing website from a paying client
Software Developer of Chevereto = Me. You are accusing me when you use these words.
Tomsit is also the owner of their discord channel to my dismay...
He's a mod on Discord, I "own" the channel.
Again, all wrong.
@tomsit is part of the Community staff. I will fix that label to display "Community Staff" to avoid this kind of confusion in the future.
Being honest, I don't know what
@tomsit stole from you besides from the idea of building a website around Star Citizen. You only described your intention, you didn't share how is going to look like or anything solid to accuse
@tomsit of stealing your work. At most, he took the idea and from there he built his own version of it. You can't expect to own the right of being the only person in the world able to run a niche-based website just because you have spent the last months telling people about that.
For what I can tell, you have a strong position in the Star Citizen community so you should not trouble yourself with this thing at all. The SC community should prefer your work just because you are behind the wheel, just like people prefer a solid brand instead of a generic brand.
You, and your personality is something that could never be stolen and that unique value is what makes your website unique.
I think that you both have the right to run a SC based Chevereto website and I believe that having two websites for such great game is only a win-win for every SC fan. Try to coexist, not to kill each other.