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Origins of Tupperbox
Dec. 31st, 2020 06:00 pmI'm going slightly bonkers watching people claim things about the Discord proxy bots (like that Tupperbox is only for RP and PluralKit is only for systems) without even knowing the history of these bots, so I went digging.
Tupperbox used to be known as Tupperware, and it was created by a singlet for their tulpamancer friends. It was advertised on /r/Tulpas when it was created, and generally received well, although some people accused it (baselessly) of harboring malicious code. In response, the creator made it open-source.
It was also adopted for a variety of non-plural stuff around the time of its creation, which its creator was and is fine with, but it was originally made for tulpas. Hence the name: "tupper" is slang for "tulpa" in the community.
It was created some months before PluralKit, according to the GitHub API: here's the query for Tupperbox, and here's the query for PluralKit.
The original advertisement thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/8ak9rn/tulpa_discord_bot/
The thread announcing a move to open source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/8aosvn/tupperware_is_now_on_github/
Unfortunately, the creator deleted their comments on the subreddit. I have a few posts by an /r/Tulpas regular that recaps some of the threads' original content, but it's hardly a primary source. I also have archived versions of the threads that contain the original comments and will be posting them in an access-locked post. (There's nothing bad in them, but I don't know why the creator deleted their posts and I'm not sure if I'm at liberty to repost them publicly.)
Tupperbox used to be known as Tupperware, and it was created by a singlet for their tulpamancer friends. It was advertised on /r/Tulpas when it was created, and generally received well, although some people accused it (baselessly) of harboring malicious code. In response, the creator made it open-source.
It was also adopted for a variety of non-plural stuff around the time of its creation, which its creator was and is fine with, but it was originally made for tulpas. Hence the name: "tupper" is slang for "tulpa" in the community.
It was created some months before PluralKit, according to the GitHub API: here's the query for Tupperbox, and here's the query for PluralKit.
The original advertisement thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/8ak9rn/tulpa_discord_bot/
The thread announcing a move to open source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/comments/8aosvn/tupperware_is_now_on_github/
Unfortunately, the creator deleted their comments on the subreddit. I have a few posts by an /r/Tulpas regular that recaps some of the threads' original content, but it's hardly a primary source. I also have archived versions of the threads that contain the original comments and will be posting them in an access-locked post. (There's nothing bad in them, but I don't know why the creator deleted their posts and I'm not sure if I'm at liberty to repost them publicly.)
