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CS guy here willing to keep site running... how get in touch with Grumpy?


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I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but none of the other sections seemed appropriate. I sent Grumpy a message a few days ago through Batoto but I haven't heard back yet. This is probably a hectic time for Grumpy, so I understand the delay, but as the clock is ticking down, I'm feeling more frantic and don't want to see another one of my favorite communities disappear so here goes nothing.

 

For transparency, I'm a computer scientist that's working on a small startup (literally just me and sometimes my friends help) interested in taking over the responsibility of running Batoto. I have a fair amount of experience with building and managing web systems and am even willing to offer compensation for the site. If anyone has other questions, please feel free to ask and I will answer what I can.

 

If anyone knows Grumpy and can pass on my message or knows a reliable way for me to get in contact with Grumpy, please let me know. If Grumpy doesn't want to see this site continue or thinks I'm not the right person, I will respect the decision, but having gotten no reply makes me concerned my previous message simply did not get through. Thanks.



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If your serious about this and will continue in the same way grumpy has run things then I wish you all the best of luck!
I <3 Batoto and I would hate to see this site come to an end so if somebody can and will pick up baton then all the beter :D



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Grumpy already stated he will not hand over the site in his post,dude.Those DB contains hundreds of thousand of user data and you think he's willing to let it go to random nobody which can literally risk a lot of people's data got farmed and used in an inappropiate way?
I'd rather let him nuke this website and let his worries go away.
Just contact the staff instead that have the comic database and open up a new website.
Not to mention there's already /g/ in reddit doing some framework to open up a new similar site to Batoto.If i'm you,i'd contact those guys instead.


Edited by HXIII, 10 January 2018 - 01:30 PM.

"I will say them once we meet again. Until then, I will never give up. Even if everyone says you're dead… even if the spells show you are dead… even if your grave stands before my eyes, I won’t believe it. I’ll wait for you for the rest of my life. But, even that won’t repay the thing that you did to me. I will call you back to life. Even if I’ll be called stupid, I will wait for you. With all my being, I will deny your death."

Louise Francoise De La Valliere to Saito Hiraga 'grave'.
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those guys in /g/ who havent even started building anything and want to compress images and have people download torrents instead of streaming

 

yeah thats gonna work out :P


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those guys in /g/ who havent even started building anything and want to compress images and have people download torrents instead of streaming

 

yeah thats gonna work out :P

Well,nothing's wrong with torrenting anyway,as scanlations is a damn illegal stuff.
I'd expected this site to go under 3 years ago during mass DMCA claims by JP publisher but it didn't.
To last this long is already a goddamn miracle for me.At least this is not like Nyaa where the owner just pulled the plug and nuke everything out(i'd wish Grumpy did that instead tbh but i know Grumpy is not that kind of person)
What i'm trying to say is that there's no way Grumpy will hand this site over to anyone else and once this website go down,hundreds will be raring to fill in the loophole.
Asking for a permission to run the site is an exercise of futility when the man himself already made things clear that he will not let this website go to anyone else,even to his close associates that he trusted for years to run things around.


"I will say them once we meet again. Until then, I will never give up. Even if everyone says you're dead… even if the spells show you are dead… even if your grave stands before my eyes, I won’t believe it. I’ll wait for you for the rest of my life. But, even that won’t repay the thing that you did to me. I will call you back to life. Even if I’ll be called stupid, I will wait for you. With all my being, I will deny your death."

Louise Francoise De La Valliere to Saito Hiraga 'grave'.
Taken from Volume 8 Light novel translation in BakaTsuki.Thank you for these translation,BakaTsuki Staff!

 


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Grumpy already stated he will not hand over the site in his post,dude.Those DB contains hundreds of thousand of user data and you think he's willing to let it go to random nobody which can literally risk a lot of people's data got farmed and used in an inappropiate way?
I'd rather let him nuke this website and let his worries go away.
Just contact the staff instead that have the comic database and open up a new website.

 

It could be possible to purge all private user data. People would just have to start from scratch (new username and all PM deleted). It's an option.

 

I don't want to stress out or annoy owner-san who should be doing whatever he desires... but, without a site like batoto where scanlators upload, we are screwed.


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It could be possible to purge all private user data. People would just have to start from scratch (new username and all PM deleted). It's an option.

That is possible. On another Forum I am registered on (semi-legal survivalist stuff), they deleted the mail addresses, but passed the usernames and passwords on to the new admin. That way, users just had to reenter their mailaddress on their first login and kept all the other stuff, and since the PW was needed to get the username, their was no identity fraud either.



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It could be possible to purge all private user data. People would just have to start from scratch (new username and all PM deleted). It's an option.

 

I don't want to stress out or annoy owner-san who should be doing whatever he desires... but, without a site like batoto where scanlators upload, we are screwed.

Yeah.Sure buddy.If you are not even sure what you're trying to say and justify,don't.
Mangaupdates covers everything up already,my friend.Don't be a lazy person.A simple google search will blow you away.
Batoto is just a convenient way to read illegally scanlated manga for us leechers and place for scanlators to outsource and promote their website to other readers.
As i said over and over again,it will not take long for another website to pop up and fill in loopholes that Batoto left.Just leave the guy alone already.Let him pull the plug peacefully.
 


"I will say them once we meet again. Until then, I will never give up. Even if everyone says you're dead… even if the spells show you are dead… even if your grave stands before my eyes, I won’t believe it. I’ll wait for you for the rest of my life. But, even that won’t repay the thing that you did to me. I will call you back to life. Even if I’ll be called stupid, I will wait for you. With all my being, I will deny your death."

Louise Francoise De La Valliere to Saito Hiraga 'grave'.
Taken from Volume 8 Light novel translation in BakaTsuki.Thank you for these translation,BakaTsuki Staff!

 


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Wow, where did civil discussion go.


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I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but none of the other sections seemed appropriate. I sent Grumpy a message a few days ago through Batoto but I haven't heard back yet. This is probably a hectic time for Grumpy, so I understand the delay, but as the clock is ticking down, I'm feeling more frantic and don't want to see another one of my favorite communities disappear so here goes nothing.

 

For transparency, I'm a computer scientist that's working on a small startup (literally just me and sometimes my friends help) interested in taking over the responsibility of running Batoto. I have a fair amount of experience with building and managing web systems and am even willing to offer compensation for the site. If anyone has other questions, please feel free to ask and I will answer what I can.

 

If anyone knows Grumpy and can pass on my message or knows a reliable way for me to get in contact with Grumpy, please let me know. If Grumpy doesn't want to see this site continue or thinks I'm not the right person, I will respect the decision, but having gotten no reply makes me concerned my previous message simply did not get through. Thanks.

Very unlikely.  HXIII has listed some of the reasons why. And yes grumpy has been busy.

Plans to directly pass the torch are currently out the window. User data should eventually be nuked.

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"If you build it, they will come."



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Wow, where did civil discussion go.

I'm just being firm,actually.
I'm emphasizing 'could be possible' because to me,it sounds like you did not exactly understand how leaked private user database actually impact people's life when it's in a hand of someone who's very malicious and will be using the info to blackmail/ruin people's social life and unless you do some super military-grade/CIA data wiping on those DB,these data can be recovered with a right tools even if you wipe them off and still can be used to ruin someone's life.
Nowadays,with social media being connected to everything that can even include private information and even if by small slight chance a portion of user data in this site are leaked,it can cause doom and even ruined someone's life.

 

"If you build it, they will come."

Indeed.No way scanlation communities let the black hole Batoto left unfilled for a very long time.


"I will say them once we meet again. Until then, I will never give up. Even if everyone says you're dead… even if the spells show you are dead… even if your grave stands before my eyes, I won’t believe it. I’ll wait for you for the rest of my life. But, even that won’t repay the thing that you did to me. I will call you back to life. Even if I’ll be called stupid, I will wait for you. With all my being, I will deny your death."

Louise Francoise De La Valliere to Saito Hiraga 'grave'.
Taken from Volume 8 Light novel translation in BakaTsuki.Thank you for these translation,BakaTsuki Staff!

 


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Grumpy did not reply to you because he has no interest in handing over the reins.

 

As he has already stated.

 

Thread closed.

 

Edit: Unless your offer is over one... MIRRION DORRAS. In which case you can PM me and I'll make sure the offer gets to Grumpy.


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