(fallen london stamps by (this was an old Dreamwidth post that I thought I'd bring here)
I'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for a variety of non-plural stuff around the time of its creation, which its creator was and is fine with, but it was originally made for tulpas.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. The query for Tupperbox has the repo's "created_at" at 2018-04-08. Meanwhile, the query for PluralKit has a "created_at" of 2018-07-13.
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 I also have an archived version of the open-source announcement. Note that if you click the GitHub link provided in the second post, https://github.com/kartelant/Tupperware, it will redirect you to the current home of the bot, https://github.com/Tupperbox/TupperboxLegacy.
