We're sorry to bump this thread but we've been busy since starting to read it and just caught up and we saw a point to address.

"According to Gio they took down the reader as well."

The webapp version of the reader that Gio hosted got taken down some time ago, but the desktop app is still readily available on the GiovanH/unofficial-homestuck-collection repo. To my knowledge Gio has not made any claims of legal action against the reader application itself.

(Note: this is a clarification, not a defense. As much credit as we'll give Gio for his work on TUHC 2.x, we still have no love for the guy after the Homestuck Renaissance era harassment he contributed to)