Where to take things from here?

[jnfinitym]

The fork is based on commit 28b080122a44b8ad97aff76d7b60a3eae345b461; As far as I can tell, this is the latest one before features were removed, but please correct me if I am wrong.

In my opinion, the goal should be to create a fully featured community version here, that doesn't paywall anything.

[PhoenixSheppy]

I'm glad someone's taking the initiative on this, companies shouldn't be able to pull stunts like MinIO did that impact such a huge amount of people.

It would be one thing to announce this formally with warning, but this appears to be blatant, silent, and without any warning at all.

Seriously, who makes a major change like this on a Sunday, that's a non-working day, at noon! 😕
The Infamous "Pull 3509"

I'm hoping this takes off, and perhaps introduces new features or QoL improvements!

Thank you! 👍

[Morethanevil]

First: Thanks for forking it. I am able to use the CLI, but the web UI is a lot user friendlier and faster imo :)

It would be nice to know how to build it, or get a binary release. Most people will ask for a container too.
I have read the readme, but there are no binary releases yet and the build section was removed a long time ago. The console was then integrated in the MinIO binary itself.

How do I use this fork? I have set up a test LXC with the latest MinIO binary and this fork via git clone.

[jnfinitym]

yes, that's a work in progress. I hope by the end of next week we have at least a docker container and a deb

[Morethanevil]

It would be great if you could provide a binary too, but thanks. I am looking forward to trying it out :)

[ali2kan]

🚀 Huge thanks @jnfinitym for spinning this up so quickly — amazing work!

I had the same gut reaction when the rug got pulled, so I forked the original repo (along with some of the key dependencies) and have been deep in the weeds hacking on it the past few days. My goal was to get a fully-featured, Dockerized version of the original MinIO web UI — something you could point at any running MinIO instance or deploy alongside as a drop-in replacement.

And since MinIO is so closely coupled with S3-compatible services, this could eventually grow into a more general-purpose admin interface for any S3-compatible object storage backend — not just MinIO. Just a thought.

That said… it’s not been easy. The MinIO team clearly made things intentionally convoluted — everything’s tightly coupled and a bit of a pain to pull apart. But honestly? That just made me more determined. 🖕

Ever since the massive code deletion PR, I’ve been pissed and all-in on figuring this out. I’d love to help push this forward — development, testing, docs, whatever’s needed.

I also went on a logo + branding bender last night (from the 🚽 office, no less) and came up with a few directions we could explore. If folks are open to it, I’d be happy to start a thread and open a PR to kick off a visual identity refresh — something that clearly separates this project from MinIO’s branding to avoid legal issues and give us room to evolve.

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Let’s build something better — transparent, user-focused, and community-driven.
MinIO took something people loved and crippled it.
We’re going to bring it back stronger.

Looking forward to collaborating with everyone here. Let’s make this awesome. 🔧🔥

[jnfinitym]

Thank you! That sounds amazing! Feel free to share your logo ideas if you want to contribute them to the project.