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arnis.io is impersonating official site and charging users #1341
Description
Summary
There is a fake website https://arnis.io/zh impersonating your Arnis project official site.
It copies the MapSmith UI, claims to be Arnis Chinese official, and charges users for generating Minecraft worlds, while your Arnis desktop client is fully open-source and free.
The real official web version is arnismc.com/mapsmith.
arnis.io is a third-party imitation site misleading users to pay.
Evidence
- Fake site: https://arnis.io/zh
- Real official: https://arnismc.com
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/louis-e/arnis
Screenshots attached:
- arnis.io homepage pretending to be official
2. quota/payment page on arnis.io
You may issue copyright/abuse complaint to Cloudflare and domain registrar for this fake site.
Activity
louis-e commentedon Sep 13, 2026
Thanks for flagging this.
This website is indeed not affiliated with me or this project. Official sources are this repo and arnismc.com. Arnis is free, and the hosted version I run is MapSmith at arnismc.com/mapsmith.
I'm already handling this through their host and payment provider, so I won't say more while that's running.
If you used their website and feel misled, payment providers have dispute processes and search engines have reporting mechanisms for deceptive sites. Please don't do any of that on my behalf or in my name though, it can complicate what I have in progress.
Morfonica-Fox commentedon Oct 14, 2026
are you succeed?