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[agent020]

Hi guys,

 

I'm Cruz from mangalism, we are a scanlator group who used to work on various series. However, due to the lack of translator and proofreader, and real life troubles (of course), most of our works have been dropped or have been picked up by other groups (my bad). If you are interested in, you can see our works at:

https://www.mangaupdates.com/groups.html?id=5495

 

As we all know, the shutdown of batoto was shocking news to anyone who like reading manga online. As a scanlator group, we also host our projects at batoto, so this is double the pain.

 

After crawling in sadness for days, I finally got through it and was ready to find another host site. However, there was a question in my mind: what if the site that I upload my works shuts down again? The biggest problems would be losing all the manga image files, and, losing the bookmark list, right?

 

So I was thinking about finding solutions for the problems. Fortunately, I was able to have some free time, and my group members were ready to work again. That was the time when I build this site: www.mangalism.com, a website to upload manga.

 

I'm not an expert, not at all, I just learn to code myself. So I can only build a side based off blogger platform. It's quite simple and full of bugs (haha). However, I was able to enhance some features that could be useful:

 

Firstly, no need to worry about losing manga image files again. If you ever created a blog at blogger.com, you would know that we could invite people to post contents on the blog. That's what I'm gonna do. I will invite people who are willing to be uploaders to post their manga. Since people post it directly from their google accounts, these image files belong to them forever (not mine), as long as they own their google accounts. Even if I no longer run the site, uploaders and scanlator group members are still be able to post the contents, update information and such. Not to mention that blogger provide unlimited content. I will never have to pay for hosting, which is the most popular reason for many manga sites and scanlator groups to ask for donation (not like I'm blaming them, though)

 

Secondly, I have added an external bookmark list (from saved.io), which could store your bookmarks conveniently. Then again, if the site is down for any reason, people will still have their bookmarks stored at a safe place.

 

Additionally, I don't use popular manga reader like other sites. My reader is more to a slideshow widget, so all image files are preloaded simultaneously, which could greatly increase loading speed (though some features will be turn off).

 

Lastly, please don't get me wrong. I'm not even trying to make a batoto replacement or something. I will never be able to do what they have done for us. Just think about my site as a place where you store your favorite stuff. Never shall I ask for donation or offer bloody popup ads.

 

Alright, it looks like I have talked too much (lol). The last thing I wanna say is, please take your time and help me build it up. Be it uploader or group, or anything, I truly appreciate your help! 

 

The site is up for now, like I said earlier, there's a lot of bugs, but at least you can visit and see how it works. And please don't for get to let me know what you guys think. Thanks for reading!

[Ishin Hazue]

Looks cool, I will be checking it out from time to time.

 

I'm a programmer myself, so if you need guide I may be able to help.

Just that my replies may be slow since I have my own side project as well as my day job.

 

hope it will be a decent site soon enough

[benderboyboy]

Thanks for the new site. I'm keeping it bookmarked and I hope it'll get picked up more as it goes along. 

[agent020]

Sorry folks my timezone is CST (UTC - 6) so I have to go to work now. I may not be able to reply to everyone at the moment. I will try to do it when I get home tonight. Thanks

[zetsuravez]

looks interesting... after batoto shuts down it is best to have more than just 1 site to check manga...

[Dfdfd]

Thanks for the hardwork!

Edited by Dfdfd, 26 January 2018 - 04:48 PM.

[Ominous]

Keeping you in mind! Thanks.

[Samhill]

Yellow box, front page:

 

"Once your are done".

[agent020]

Sorry about the typo, we have fixed it.

[Oliverfr]

Hey Cruz.

If you don't detest negative feedback (sorry about that, but it's meant in a constructive way), there's in my eyes an issue with your site.

I don't remember how it's called, I've also had it with some linux image viewer programs...

To describe it, it's the idea that we scroll down to view the bottom of an image... hit the button to move to the next image... and the next image is loaded from the previous image's last scrolling position, thus from the bottom.

And it's unfriendly, picture us reading, we scroll down to the bottom of an image, hit to view the next image... but we must first scroll up to view the image from the top.

 

No idea if it's doable, but if you could add, when we hit the previous/next button, a command to position the window back, it would be good.

 

Good luck with your site, I wish you well

[agent020]

Thank you so much for your constructive opinion. Indeed, I have built and also have tested several alternatives before I choose this style. If you are interested in, here is analternative: https://mangalismv2.blogspot.com/

 

This option provided traditional reading type where you can click or use keyboard key to navigate. The big problem is that it increase double,sometimes triple the time to post a chapter!

 

I can switch to this option but it could take much more time for uploading since I have to add image file one by one instead of adding multiple files as of now.

At the moment, there are very few uploaders at mangalism. In order to encourage more people to join us, I make the uploading process as fast as possible. That's why, I guess it's best to keep it the way it is now. If we have more uploaders and they request a change, I'll definitely do it!

 

As a aside note, the current mangalism always has a "back to the top" arrow, hope this helps

Edited by agent020, 01 February 2018 - 01:46 AM.

[APines]

It saddens me to see the community splitting like this. Batoto was great as it was a definitive site for scanlators and readers alike. Not saying I don't appreciate mangalism...mangadex and wtv but it would be swell if y'all could reach out to each other and work together instead of endless competitor sites popping up with a solution that's not really filling the void left by batoto :")

[TetraSky]

It saddens me to see the community splitting like this. Batoto was great as it was a definitive site for scanlators and readers alike. Not saying I don't appreciate mangalism...mangadex and wtv but it would be swell if y'all could reach out to each other and work together instead of endless competitor sites popping up with a solution that's not really filling the void left by batoto :")

Or if uploading to one site, uploaded to all the other sites.
Because it IS good to have more options. You never know when the copyright hammer will strike down a website, even if the hoster doesn't care, if it involve a lawsuit and the government gets in on it, they can bypass the hoster's unwillingness and go straight into the servers to cease it along with the domain name.