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Posted by Grumpy on 13 April 2018 - 09:56 PM
Posted by Grumpy on 13 April 2018 - 09:48 PM
Even with the site closed for the most part, seems like haywire bots are still an issue for this site... I don't know what they're doing just making countless searches everywhere, but few bans and we're back to normal operation. I honestly haven't check this server in a while, so... it was probably at terrible speeds for a while now.
Posted by Grumpy on 01 February 2018 - 08:20 PM
They literally copied mangawindow site, and just replaced the name with batoto,it's just lazy. I have a question, can't they use the same layout as batoto?
Well, I own the copyright to the layout as I made it. It's also built on top of the theme that I bought/licensed from IPS theme designing company (IPSFocus). Lastly, IPS itself. So, they would be infringing on three copyright owners issues if they copied ours.
But there's nothing physically stopping them.
So... they can, but they shouldn't.
I'm not too surprised[...]
Batoto was just an image hosting site with convenient sorting and a forum. Don't be calling us names now!
Number of companies actually already worked with us and actually had another one that was rolling out before I told them sorry for wasting their time. So, I don't really think they were shy from being associated with us.
One company whom I was in contact with was super into buying it. But couldn't convince their CEO. So, there is a lot of mixed desires on their side too.
The quantity of batoto traffic + smooth transition is worth seriously quite a lot. I actually had the site evaluated with a consultant prior to approaching them. To a strategic buyer (like manga publisher), I was supposed to approach them with low 6 figure (for site, not just domain). But did warn me that the strategic route of selling rarely work and shouldn't get my hopes up simply because they usually don't assign a budget for this type of nature, even for large companies. Meaning, they'd have to reassign their budget to make it work. This was a super bargain though. Still feel like a big loss of opportunity for them.
In the end, market has spoken. The domain's value is 5k and it's where it's sold.
Posted by Grumpy on 31 January 2018 - 12:40 PM
It is weird. But oh well...
I actually approached other official publishers prior to putting domain up for auction to see if they're interested. From about a month and half before the announcement. Sadly, I either never got a reply or got turned down. I found that so stupid. They spend so much more money on advertising already and they were willing to let go of an extremely effective promo ability.
That's why I ultimately just sold it to market. At the point where publishers already declined, the only potential buyers left was random fan or a buyer like now. At least it's not malicious, so I can't complain... yet.
Posted by Grumpy on 31 January 2018 - 12:11 PM
(37, 'MoonFlower Scans', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2013/09/11/t/read5230b0327f12c/img000001.png'), (38, 'Shirayuki Scans', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2014/01/08/t/read52cd7aed1ab3e/img000001.png'), (47, 'Silent Sky', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2014/04/06/t/read5341a22974672/img000001.png'), (33, 'VisTrans', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2014/06/04/t/read538f3c8dca8c1/img000001.png'), (45, 'The Faiien Scans', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2014/07/14/t/read53c388d047891/img000001.png'), (56, 'IRSTLand', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2014/10/22/t/read54481318b6f19/img000001.png'), (58, 'Fallen Angels', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2014/11/07/t/read545c91bdce15c/img000001.png'), (59, 'Hot Chocolate Scans', 'http://img.bato.to/comics/2015/01/13/t/read54b5204a09104/img000001.png');
Posted by Grumpy on 25 January 2018 - 10:59 PM
I have updated the logo on all the themes now.
Setup new analytics and webmasters tools for the site.
Along with my grandfathered gsuite that i'm gonna use forever and google can never charge me. [email protected] is now functional.
Recached everything.
Reconfiged everything... stupid site has way too many specific rules.
Updated urls on chat
Wrote up prettier dead notice on bato.to, which now deletes all cookies on visit.
Removed ad codes from everywhere I can remember.
Added dog.
Did I miss anything? Why am I making work for myself?
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Updated privacy, tos and abuse pages.
Updated IPB license.
Posted by Grumpy on 25 January 2018 - 03:07 PM
To be honest, I'm not sure where I stand myself on this matter.
Initially, I decided to nuke everything. Which is why I even told other admins to not bother with acct deletions anymore.
But some people managed to convince me to at least keep the forums up. So, it's here right now. Plus, I think I have difficulty letting things go as well.
If keeping Batoto as a whole was like managing a fleet of dozen cars, managing forums is still like managing 1 car. Surely, there's lot less I need to do. And I can do it with less vigor or need for urgency to fix issues. No one's going to be hammering our servers for content. It's tiny effort compared to before, but still effort. Keeping forums up costs too, again, tiny amount now compared to before (~$50/mo now) and I don't really intend to spend money forever on something people may not be too interested in.
So, it's up now. But if there's of high value to you, you should make a copy of it for yourself.
Posted by Grumpy on 13 January 2018 - 09:48 AM
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