TalesForgotten

Wow... I'm gutted. I've been reading on this site since 2012. I do have other manga sites that I visit, but I always get really frustrated with other sites because they usually don't have a way of tracking manga you subscribe to, or if they have such a function, it's absolutely worthless...

 

All of a sudden, I don't really know what to do about my manga reading future. However, I understand that a site like this can be tough to run, especially more or less by yourself. I want to thank everyone in Batoto that kept the wheels turning. Thank you for putting out the best manga reading community and experience since the dawn of internet scanlators.

 

Have a good life Grumpy!

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I hope a replacement come fast to save us all.

Really sad to see you go but thanks for the time you've invested into the site and the service you've provided us manga fans with. Best of luck to you and any future endeavors you choose to take on!

 

But out of curiosity, is there nobody trustworthy within the staff willing to pick up the mantle for running the site? Even if you'd like to quit it doesn't have to mean the abolishment of the entire site and the community it has built up.

You people have no spines. His poor management skills and selfish pity party to avoid giving over the site is the marked death of the entire system. Don't take this rolling over, let him know what a mistake it is.

 

The way you're goin about it is wrong. No one can tell another person what they should do, we can simply advice them. It's ultimately their choice.

Now, if you read my previous post, I did suggest that he should consider hiring some sysadmins to help him with the work and that donations could cover the cost because if the site benefits we all users benefit. Else, an e-hentai decentralized kind of thing could also work while being cheaper to maintain.

Shutting down the whole site instead of just giving it to someone else just sounds like you're going "if I can't have it then no one can". I sympathize with how much effort you've put into this site and how it must have burned you out. But if it's too much for you, then hand it over to someone it isn't too much for.

What is preventing you from giving management to someone else? Being site owner doesn't mean you have to keep eye on it all the time.
 
I fail to see how this is a problem with bato.to and not a problem with your mindset. Bato.to seems to only cause your life problems because you are making so that it caused you problems, by wanting to be omnipresent and setting alarms for crashes and everything.
 
You don't need to do that. Hire someone to take care of site and stay as owner of the site who simply owns the place. Hiring people or finding someone else to keep this place up should not be a problem.

Absolutely this, I can understand not being up to the task of continuing being in charge but there's gotta be a whole number of alternatives to shutting things down altogether. This site is nothing short of perfect for reading manga especially compared to every other site out there. I appreciate and thank you for making this site come to be and hope you luck in moving on past your time here but I think it absurd that killing it off is the only option left for it.

I'm really feeling down from this.

 

I thank all the team for 7 years of hard work, but... Fuck, I didnt needed this in my life right now.

Thank you so much for your hard work! You'll be missed!

 

If the idea of of "passing on the torch" appeals to you in the slightest, I'd be more than happy to purchase the website from you! I'm a software engineer with both time and some money on my hands!

What is preventing you from giving management to someone else? Being site owner doesn't mean you have to keep eye on it all the time.

 

I fail to see how this is a problem with bato.to and not a problem with your mindset. Bato.to seems to only cause your life problems because you are making so that it caused you problems, by wanting to be omnipresent and setting alarms for crashes and everything.

 

You don't need to do that. Hire someone to take care of site and stay as owner of the site who simply owns the place. Hiring people or finding someone else to keep this place up should not be a problem.

​​Thank you so much for what you've done! I never knew that behind this wonderful site there was so much hard work, i truly hope that you'll be able to live without any more worries. What you did for us was incredible. Although i never posted anything i just wanted to let you know that every day of my life in these past 3 years i visited at least once the site. It is a big part of my life and i'll really miss it. Hope that you'll find all the happiness that you deserve <3 

And again THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THESE WONDERFUL YEARS

With all due respect, but did you ever consider getting more sysadmins on board? The donations count towards this goal because it's in the best interest of the site and its users benefit.

I honestly don't understand. If the site's growth (which is expected based on the content it serves) was too much for you to handle alone, you should've gotten more people to help.

 

Edit: wild idea: Turn it into an e-hentai thing where the bandwidth is offloaded between users who choose to donate it. This way, there's no one central point of failure and it becomes immune to DMCA due to its decentrailzed nature.

This.. actually felt like when a good manga is ending. Characters we love will freeze in an end frame and we'll keep on going with our lives imagining that their adventures are still going in a happy ever after mode. Grumpy, you're just like the character of a manga I've followed for years. I don't know you in real life, so for me you're this fictional hero that will still break legs even after ending credits roll. Same with others I've 'met' on the community. Admins, contributors, and fellow potatoes, we're all cool characters on each own's manga. Thanks for the adventure guys!

This is a very, very very painful farewell. Checking Batoto is the first thing I do as soon as I come back from work, it became a reflex -a very important one that gives me so much joy.

You've created an excellent website and gathered an amazing community. You made a very good job. Thank you for all your efforts, thank you for allowing us to enjoy ourselves for so many years. I'm extremely sorry you had to pay such a high price and sacrifice so much of your own life because of it though.
I wish you all the best.

It's sad...VERY SADDENING. I really enjoy this site for reading manga. I don't think I'll find any other site quite like this.

 

Truly the most predictable thing about life is its unpredictability.

 

I'll remain with this site up to the last possible minute. So thank you for holding out until now. Rest well, knowing that at the very least I really appreciate this site you managed for so long.