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Xagnam

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#1853496 Batoto will be closing permanently

Posted by cry_nevermore on 08 January 2018 - 12:52 AM

I don't post much (practically never, in fact,) but as someone who followed your work back when The Company scanlation group was new, and an early user of Batoto, who signed up after getting blown away by the beautiful layout and easy navigation, I just like to take this opportunity to say thank you.

 

Thank you for introducing me to some of my favorite Korean Manwhas, from Kubera to To Be an Elite,

 

Thank you for creating this Batoto.com, and fighting for its quality.

 

Thank you for your time,

 

Thank you for your patience.

 

I too, will stay until the end, and I hope that whatever comes next for you is easier on your soul.




#1853388 Batoto will be closing permanently

Posted by Viraz on 07 January 2018 - 11:37 PM

Thank you, RawR.

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#1852992 Batoto will be closing permanently

Posted by Grumpy on 07 January 2018 - 08:57 PM

Hello everyone.
 
Batoto will be closing down permanently.
 
I just don't have the will to run this site anymore. This is not a sudden decision for me or something I make lightly, it has been on my mind for a couple years now. And I've finally made my mind to put it into action.
 
I started Batoto along with the crew from The Company back in January of 2011 and it's been a very meaningful part of my life. I don't regret taking on this hobby called Batoto and I cherish the role that I've played as well as the countless hours everyone else here has put in as well as the great community that we've built. I've come to see this like my baby. At 7 years, I suppose it's not even a baby anymore. But it is at a point where I need to move on with my life. I'm tired and I just can't do this anymore.
 
Batoto is proving to be ever more time consuming to maintain despite the fact that we have fewer real visitors. Our bot visitors are always growing as we're the only source that still gives true quality. I've made some serious and controversial changes to counter that like adding membership requirements. While that helped a ton at that time, it always creeps back and we're almost back to square one at this point when I look at the statistics. They currently make up roughly 35% of the traffic which are much more troublesome than real users. And I don't want to make more serious change to this site that'll inconvenience the readers even further. We've already lost enough.
 
It's not just the bots that adds to the technical issues. It's a big site with huge number of page views. It's just expected part of running the site. Whether it be a DDoS attack, scraper bots gone haywire, servers/hosting company being annoying, ad company being annoying, there's just so many stuff that I constantly have to deal with. Over the last 7 years, I haven't had a single day when I could just freely take a day off. If the site goes down, I had to be there, on my computer, ready to take action. I obviously don't do something every single day, but just making myself available is taxing on my life. The fact that I'm unable to take a vacation have often been a point of argument with others in my life. Anytime someone says, let's go somewhere, I could only say no. I have to be here. Sound sleeping is also a thing of the past. I have alarms that go off when the site goes down. I'd wake up in the middle of the sleep to take care of it. False alarm, while irritating, is one of the best things to see when I'm interrupted from my sleep. How else would I have always responded to issues immediately?
 
I've simply run out of will and I feel this is the best choice for me. I beg that the community understands this difficult decision I've made.
 
 
Services will be severely affected starting January 18th as servers expire, though content may still be accessible for you. By January 25th, critical number of servers will have expired that the site will no longer function. But you should consider 18th to be the last day.
 
 
I have stopped accepting donations for a several months now and I'll check to see if anyone sent anything directly and I'll be sure to refund them if they did.
 
Going forward, some of the staff members have and still are in the process of backing up the entire Batoto comic content as they have been notified of this decision well in advanced. They may choose to create a new Batoto or something simpler. That will be up to them, but I will no longer be part of running it.
 
I understand that our forum is a valuable form of communication for many. Because of that, I will be keeping the forums running for an extended period of time, date of which is not yet decided. I will also be making an export for your follows list so that your list isn't lost. Additionally, this list will be available as long as the forum is up and running. Other information that may be useful to the community may be filtered and backed up then made available for the community, but I will, under no circumstances, give anyone a full backup of the site or database. Many have used our system in confidence and it will stay that way.
 
I would like to thank everyone here for your patronage all these years. It has been a good run. Really, thank you. Wouldn't have made it this far without you.
 
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Looks like a lot of people are in a scramble to save what they can, and as a result, site is lot slower. I'm turning on the cloudflare anti-ddos protection to put the site back to a manageable speed. Will likely need to keep it on until the end.
- 2018/1/7
 
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The export feature has been added. Go to my follows and check the side bar. Realized there isn't much data to save when our IDs and such are all gone. But it's there anyway for the fuller version.
If domain is no longer up, forums will be available at the alternate address of vatoto.com (not used right now)
- 2018/1/13
 
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The servers have begun to expire. First the of the servers are now offline. With the exception of the main (control) server, it's designed so that load is shared among the rest when one goes down. So, it'll continually get slower to serve pages unless people trying to access also decreases. I will manually remove reader pages by 25th and migrate the forums away.
- 2018/1/18



#1571252 Where Can I Find...? [Recommendations]

Posted by NoobRage on 12 May 2015 - 02:57 AM

Here's a new one. It's Xianxia.

 

RAW | Wu Shen Kong Jian [Martial God Space]




#1571161 Where Can I Find...? [Recommendations]

Posted by Algoz on 11 May 2015 - 11:29 PM

Xagnam, I just wanted to say that you put Insania Online, that Is a virtual world story, into the reincarnation tab.




#1556863 Juggling Image Servers

Posted by Grumpy on 28 April 2015 - 05:47 AM

Major item for me, though, you guys don't really have to do anything as it'll all be handled smoothly, hopefully...
I guess this announcement might get a bit technical. Only part that I do want everyone to know is that if there's hiccups, just use the gear button to change image servers. ;)
 
You can stop reading now unless you want to actually learn the plans.............................
 
Image servers are getting swapped to different hardware and locations. Generally to spread it out more and get more bandwidth throughput in total.

  • US1 image server is being taken down. It has already been removed from DNS and will be offline from 30th of April.
  • US1 is being replaced with nothing because the newest one as I'm expecting CA1 to just handle the load. Whether or not it can is something I'll have to watch. Early stats show promise...
  • By mid ~ end of May, I will likely remove US2 as well, in place of new server also in the US (but central us).

Why is this change being made?

  • US1 has been very buggy... Goes down very often and generally under-performing to expectations. I think a good portion of image server complaints go here.
  • US1 and US2 are located in eastern USA. And I know people from Asia have a difficult time getting a good connection to our image servers.
  • CA1 is even more east than US1 and US2 (two US are in same location). So, I really want a more western one to counter and give Asia better traffic.

One actually in Asia would work best, but honestly just can't even remotely afford it. International bandwidth for servers in Asia is crazy expensive. That and some of our 2MB per black and white image aren't exactly a good match. Seriously, what the hell guys.
One in west coast usa is next best performer for asia, and still trying to find one. If I do find one, it'll be there. But again, not finding any in good price range right now, so may have to settle for central USA.
 
Longer down the road sometime... I will be replacing the one in Netherlands with a bigger but generally same area (Germany, France, other Netherlands... they're all kinda close).
 
 
Once all the image server moving is complete... (no date promises)

  • We'll actually only have 3 image servers from previous 4, but expecting higher capacity.
  • I will begin experimenting optional compression of images (default will be full, and user can select compressed). That will, again, provide better speeds to people in Asia, should they choose to.
  • I'm going to try to make the server assignment to be more location based. For example, if you're from Europe, you will almost always be assigned the EU server rather than something else. Currently, it's mostly which server can afford to give you as some of them have caps.

In case you need pics.

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#1545468 Where Can I Find...? [Recommendations]

Posted by TSC_GOTL on 14 April 2015 - 01:42 AM

@Xagnam: Mai Can Thai Thieu Binh is not the title of the work, it's the name of the author.




#1529201 Where Can I Find...? [Recommendations]

Posted by Pseudonymous_Existence on 22 March 2015 - 07:24 PM

We just need to get the Popular threads star again kekeke

 

~aomori9

True. I miss that little star in the right top corner.

 

Hopefully it wont take long.

It will also means Xagnam has 2 popular topics. Granted they're pretty much the same thing,it should still give him some prestige xD




#1529177 Where Can I Find...? [Recommendations]

Posted by Pathos on 22 March 2015 - 07:01 PM

We just need to get the Popular threads star again kekeke

 

~aomori9




#1518058 [Recommendations] {ARCHIVE}

Posted by Crazyh on 10 March 2015 - 09:35 PM

Here's a light novel I've been enjoying recently: https://thatguywhosthere.wordpress.com/le-festin-de-vampire/

 

Didn't see this in list at the start (could be that I'm blind)

Also, saw you didn't have a link to Kyuuketsu hime, https://madospicy.wordpress.com/kyuuketsu-hime/This one has picked it up, only done prologue and ch1, but might be worth linking if they continue with it. 




#1513977 [Recommendations] {ARCHIVE}

Posted by asphaltus on 06 March 2015 - 07:48 PM

Can I advertise my own fiction here? While I know it will be good, it nice to have reviews in the beginning chapters to see where i can improve. Here's the link

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Thanks a lot for the list. I have wasted many glorious hours refreshing this page.




#1497874 [Recommendations] {ARCHIVE}

Posted by Zephyrial on 19 February 2015 - 06:26 AM

I'm grateful to the person who started this thread because this has helped me find many stories, such as Tsuyokute New Saga and Knight's and Magic.




#1494376 [Recommendations] {ARCHIVE}

Posted by necrodevz on 15 February 2015 - 09:50 PM

Firstly, much thanks to Xagnam for starting this thread and another thank you to all the contributors. You guys have saved me from boredom many a time. 

 

I'm just a lowly leech, and I hope you guys can help me with my little issue.  A few weeks back a link was posted to this thread pointing to a google drive folder with the title 'Western Fiction', I believe. I had to reinstall the OS of my laptop cuz one of the applications i was building went haywire and since i came back I've been unable to find the link. I assume that it was in the posts that were deleted recently.  

 

Is it possible for anyone to provide me with the link to that folder? 

 

Thank you. 




#1487242 [Recommendations] {ARCHIVE}

Posted by Solistia on 10 February 2015 - 07:16 AM

(Aaahh, thank you for adding Overseer Xagnam ;u; I am touched you found it worthy of the list)




#1479042 [Recommendations] {ARCHIVE}

Posted by kai143 on 04 February 2015 - 07:43 PM

hello ppl

first of all i just made this account to thank you Xagnam and all the ppl who contributed in make this amazing thread.

 

i have some questions regarding Fimbulwinter (Daniel Black) and Good Intention 1&2, does these books have any rape scenes? i m ok with erotic sex scenes or gore or violence or any other mature stuff but not fan of rapes so if any of this book contains rape scenes please kindly inform me, also if someone is kind enough to point out other books listed here which has rapes.


Is there any novels out there with a demon protagonist?

i would suggest Demon Lord series by Morgan Blayde if you havent already finish reading info page: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16205710-red-moon-demon






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