OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage

[kevinastone]

This was in response to MinIO/AIStor removing the browser-console UI from the community offering (locking it behind enterprise licensing) a few months back.

Unfortunately, this fork has not developed any traction. It's last commit was 4 months ago basically after the initial fork and instantly became dormant.

You can see the list of 'Still alive?' issues: https://github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser/issues...

[tempaccount420]

That's usually what happens to these type of forks.

[dang]

Recent and related:

MinIO stops distributing free Docker images - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665452 - Oct 2025 (499 comments)

[mbreese]

I'm not entirely sure how their commercial offering works. It looks like it's a commercial fork of MinIO, but I wasn't able to find anything about assigning copyright for pull requests in their Github. (I didn't look that hard).

But, if the main product is 100% F/OSS AGPL, how are they accepting code from outside contributors and still maintaining a private enterprise offering under (presumably) a different license?

[yencabulator]

You assume competence. Minio originally tried to argue AGPL infects client code over the network.

Just let the company fade away..

[binarymax]

Hey I know picking names is hard, but this is the first time I've ever been on the other end of a collision like this.

[pxc]

This hitting the front page made me do a web search review what's going on with MinIO, and... turns out it's still 100% F/OSS, released under the AGPLv3.

This is absolutely not comparable to something like OpenTofu, OpenBao, Forgejo, etc. (I guess it's more like recent CentOS forks, like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, or whatever.)

Personally, I think supporting it would be regrettable. MinIO is fine.

[mastax]

MinIO has gotten rid of the admin UI from the OSS version and is erasing documentation. Even if they stop here that's enough to need a community fork, but I don't expect them to stop here. Their obvious intent is for the OSS version to only be useful as a trial version of the commercial paid product.

[avoutic]

MinIO gutted the UI recently. Actually fully removed it from the codebase.

So you either have to stick to a vulnerable version or have no een UI.

This form seems to target just that. So for the UI kinda similar actually.

[max-privatevoid]

MinIO has a CLA, so they're in the exact same situation as HashiCorp, just not as far ahead.

[PedroBatista]

What's up with the naming of rage forked projects?

OpenMaxIO, Forgejo, Valkey, OpenTofu..

Some worse than the others, but still..

Btw, MinIO making these not "open open-source" moves should not be a surprise. Since the beginning, YEARS ago their own CEO, lead people talked in a way it was clear they wanted to follow the Hashicorp book, a few years later they've taken quite a few hundreds of millions in investment.

So let's not be childish, adopt it for what it is and when it happens adapt it for what it is.

[nunez]

OpenTofu is a "best of a bad situation" kind of thing. The project was originally called OpenTF, which makes sense since Terraform config code almost always ends in `.tf`, but HashiCorp sent out the lawyers, so they had to change names. Plus, it goes well with OpenBao, their Vault fork.

[snug]

I don't get your point about naming. What would you have them named? OpenMaxIO seems different than any of the other ones you listed. They wouldn't have been able to name it OpenMinIO without some legal problems.

[mholt]

Wait'll you hear about:

- https://github.com/WedgeServer/wedge

- https://github.com/tmpim/casket

Both forks of Caddy...

[dang]

[stub for offtopicness]

(submitted title was "OpenMaxIO is a community-maintained fork of MinIO"; we've replaced it with what the article says, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

[0xC0ncord]

"Community-maintained" is quite a stretch considering the repository has had no activity since the fork and name change.

[sprior]

Looks like it's a clone of the browser UI, not the MinIO server (like I was expecting any minute now based on their recent news).

[parliament32]

> forked from minio/object-browser

> This is a fork of MinIO Console.

> JavaScript 75.2%

It seems this is just a community-maintained fork of the minio UI, not minio itself.

[bananadonkey]

Isn't this just the UI and not the minio storage server itself?

Title is misleading if so

[sreekanth850]

This is not minio. Its minio UI.

[ekjhgkejhgk]

Why "open". The point here is freedom. You're going to give RMS an ulcer poor fellow.

[bdcravens]

I'll take it over "libre"

[stronglikedan]

I feel sorry for the OMIO maintainer community considering how entitled the MinIO community revealed themselves to be.

[Spivak]

Step 1: I made this thing and am freely giving it away for the benefit of everyone. Come join the party!

Step 2: Wow, because this is a community project I can depend on it continuing to exist freely thanks to a large base of diverse parties invested in its continued growth and availability.

Step 3: Just kidding, I'm taking back the thing I made. Sorry if you were depending on it, migrate to something else or pay me.

Step 4: WTF dude?!

Step 5: Why are you all so entitled?