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#1852992 Batoto will be closing permanently
Posted by Grumpy on 07 January 2018 - 08:57 PM
#1650339 Batoto becoming registered only?
Posted by Argent Witch on 20 October 2015 - 04:24 PM
That's very worrying...
I'll be honest... I trust you, Grumpy. You've run Batoto extraordinarily well, stuck close to your stated ideals, kept ads minimal/generally unobtrusive, and made the site the best it can be. So when you say that this move is "most likely inevitable", I believe you and think your intentions are good.
But I do think this will "kill" the site as we all know and love it. Only a small fraction of those nonmembers will register an account to continue using Batoto; the rest will simply shrug and move on to some other aggregator.
I don't know if this is necessarily good or bad... I've never run a big website, so I just don't know how such a huge loss of traffic will affect you and the site's future ad revenue. I'm also worried about the possibility that even if the revenue system is fine, the loss of traffic will have other effects... maybe some scanlators won't feel like hosting their projects here anymore, either because they oppose the move or simply don't think uploading releases to a much smaller Batoto is worthwhile? I can imagine the situation potentially snowballing from there... Of course, it's hard to say what will truly happen, and this could just be me overthinking/overreacting (and everything will turn out ok).
If this move could allow you to more easily track and crack down on the aggregator bots who rip chapters from Batoto, then that's a major plus. I'd love to see that work out.
But I agree with ku4eto; if you're going to move forward with this plan, it's imperative to start promoting registrations on the main page.The sooner, the better.
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#1650329 Batoto becoming registered only?
Posted by KaiKinE on 20 October 2015 - 04:17 PM
i see... maybe i'll stick to my "partial private" one...
like a few days delay in non members...
and also, make some sort of ads to make non-members becomes members... more like encouraging banner to sign up and its perks in becoming a member...
agree a week delay for non member would be the best instead not letting them read anything, also a page to encourage people to read it at batoto for every manga(for non members only), because 3 years ago I'm a former reader from leecher website but this page made me visit batoto and it took me a year to become a member.
So why not try it again and make it more direct
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