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#1889398 Still here!

Posted by nhatanh on 29 October 2019 - 10:23 AM

I just decide to visit the site on a whim and I already feel the old wound starting to burst open, especially considering the best alternative we get after potato's death is fucking mangadex.

Damn.




#1862423 Ew. The site made with the bought bato.to domain. Ew.

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! :P

 

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.




#1859564 Habit?

Posted by RealHounder2014 on 22 January 2018 - 06:03 AM

So, who - like me- keeps showing up here outta habit to check for releases?




#1859285 New manga site like bato.to

Posted by HermesPasser on 21 January 2018 - 11:50 AM

MangaDex: How about show just the last release of each manga in home page?




#1858894 Retaining old accounts on the new forum

Posted by sjoe on 20 January 2018 - 10:40 AM

This thread is, in some sense, requesting for the opposite of the Master account deletion thread, on a case-by-case basis. It has been indicated that Grumpy will be purging all accounts, and all user data (which I presume also includes forum stuff like posts and PMs) will be lost. However, at the same time, it seems like the forums themselves aren't going to be completely nuked, but merely shifted to a different domain. So I have a couple of questions:
1. Will the existing forum-related public data (existing topics, posts, status updates) be retained on the new forum (possibly with all user data nuked, so everyone will show up as Guest_xyz), or are we going to start afresh?
2. If some part of this forum is going to be retained, I would like my account not to be nuked. I have good memories, conversations and posts associated with my account which I would like to retain. Will this be possible (perhaps on a case-by-case basis)?


#1857608 New manga site like bato.to

Posted by Hologfx on 17 January 2018 - 09:08 PM

Our site is ready: https://mangadex.com/

 

I was able to code this very quickly as there is a lot of overlap with AniDex.

 

All the essential functions are now complete. Improvements to the site will be coming in the days ahead, as I get more user feedback.




#1856856 Export "My Follows" *with related data*

Posted by fuzzyk on 15 January 2018 - 06:36 PM

I found the existing possibilities to export “My Follows” totally inadequate, so I rolled my own. Bad news first: It’s a Windows-only application.

It’s available on GitHub: https://github.com/fuzzykiller/batoto-grabber

You can also download prebuilt binaries from the Releases page.

Usage:
  • Log in
  • Select languages relevant to you on main page
  • Start
  • It crawls series
  • It crawls groups (progress bar starts again)
  • Select file name to save to
  • It saves the database, then downloads cover images (progress bar starts again)
  • A message box will appear when it's done
To make pages load faster, loading images is disabled. However, it will wait 100ms between page loads. All in all, it takes ~3 seconds per series/group on my super fast internet connection. YMMV

This whole process will get you an SQLite database with information on:
  • Series (basically everything that’s visible on a series’ page, including the cover image
  • All chapters (title, which group, which language, ...)
  • Groups that translated those chapters (including their website URL if set)
System Requirements
  • Windows 7 or higher
  • .NET Framework 4.5.2
  • Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable x86
  • Lots of RAM (at least 2 GiB of free memory) for browser cache and whatnot
  • Batoto reachable at https://vatoto.com(I could change this later, provided all the series data is still available)
  • A reasonable amount of disk space (takes 90 MiB for the 279 series I follow, depends largely on the cover images)
Handled error conditions
  • Cloudflare DDoS protection
  • Cloudflare timeout pages
  • Random timeouts
  • Removed series (2 types)
  • Removed translation groups
  • Missing/otherwise unavailable cover images
If you want to modify it or whatever, you can use Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition (or higher). If you want to create something similar for different platforms, feel free to use the JavaScript snippets I created!

Disclaimer: I provide no warranties whatsoever.


#1855242 New manga site like bato.to

Posted by SushiAddiction on 10 January 2018 - 12:29 PM

Saw a comment on reddit discussing Batoto shutting down which might help you out with getting an idea of how the artwork looks on mangaupdates. There were also some other useful scripts for MU mentioned earlier.

https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/66979

I couldn't get it working no matter what (yes I followed suggestions) >EDIT - working. I don't see it's that much better than mylist.

 

so I'm using atm

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/10937-mangaupdates-custom-releases-page

 

Links to MF MH from MU. I've added another site, KA. in the comments section there is an attached script. It's partially broken. I can't fix it but I will probably add more sites. Hopefully someone can fix the script.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/19820-manga-updates-external-links

or

modified (MF,MH,KA,MP), need to create new script and paste the text from here into it. AniDB link broken too (not my fault)

https://justpaste.it/1fixt

 

Already had bring back group links installed. Excellent.

https://github.com/loadletter/mangaupdates-urlfix/

 

Covers should not be turned on unless needed. Extra traffic

 

Other stuff

 

This plugs a hole that affects every link. Helps on ad pages

http://www.github.com/jaredsohn/noopener_by_default

 

along with the usual extensions to stop nasty ads that behave badly.

 

 

ALL this is a stopgap. We really need a new batoto. A place where scanlators will upload. Many of these other sites just scraped batoto. These sites will become shit with batoto gone.




#1855218 CS guy here willing to keep site running... how get in touch with Grumpy?

Posted by joelruns on 10 January 2018 - 10:35 AM

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but none of the other sections seemed appropriate. I sent Grumpy a message a few days ago through Batoto but I haven't heard back yet. This is probably a hectic time for Grumpy, so I understand the delay, but as the clock is ticking down, I'm feeling more frantic and don't want to see another one of my favorite communities disappear so here goes nothing.

 

For transparency, I'm a computer scientist that's working on a small startup (literally just me and sometimes my friends help) interested in taking over the responsibility of running Batoto. I have a fair amount of experience with building and managing web systems and am even willing to offer compensation for the site. If anyone has other questions, please feel free to ask and I will answer what I can.

 

If anyone knows Grumpy and can pass on my message or knows a reliable way for me to get in contact with Grumpy, please let me know. If Grumpy doesn't want to see this site continue or thinks I'm not the right person, I will respect the decision, but having gotten no reply makes me concerned my previous message simply did not get through. Thanks.




#1855191 New manga site like bato.to

Posted by Revassin on 10 January 2018 - 08:07 AM

I'm also looking for a site like this(though I think everyone is); but if it helps, here are some sites you SHOULDN'T go to. The ones I heard about, I heard about through yahoo answers or reddit threads.

Mangad*ep- Has malware ads, but aren't very obtrusive. Probably best bet so far; thanks kingpipot89!

Mangap*nda- has instant redirects and pop-ups. For me it was completely unusable.

Mangastre*m- heard it has exactly the same problems as Mangap*nda.

Mangare*der- has same problems as aforementioned sites.

Mangah*re- heard it has malware ads and redirects.

Mang*go- has malware ads and redirects.

Kis*manga- has alware ads and horrible navigation that causes you to click them unintentionally. Also redirects.

Mangaf*x- Has malware ads and pop-ups.

Onem*nga- heard it has malware ads and redirects.

Mangap*rk- obtrusive malware ads.

Thespe*trum- has malware ads and redirects.

I'm updating this as I find or remember more sites. Also, most of these sites are still usable with the proper ad-blocks, I personally would just rather stay away from sites that try to give you viruses( or affiliate with ad companies who do the same).

This list is nice and all but I think these are actually the only alternatives to bato.to at this moment? If you are looking for a site with a collection of manga. So the only other option would be to check the daily releases at mangaupdates and then find the scanlation site itself. Personally I pref they way bato.to did it with the small thumbnails because I could always get an idea of the artwork and whats the story about when looking for new manga to read. Having to go back to scanning all the titles on the mangaupdates release page and checking random titles for new manga is gonna be so tiring everyday :(

EDIT: Does Onem*nga still exist in some way? As far as I know that site doesn't exist anymore???




#1853994 New manga site like bato.to

Posted by Solipsist on 08 January 2018 - 10:35 AM

To be honest, one of the things that I enjoyed about Batoto was the "Currently popular" tab. It introduced new stuff to read.
Other websites, however, only have things like "Latest updates" or "all-time popular", which doesn't help at all. Being a direct host for multiple scanalation groups also helps out.

I do wonder if someone is going to bring up a new website with the same idea in mind, since checking each individual scanalation groups' website is just not realistic.
EDIT: MangaDex.com seems to be a top contender in that regard.




#1853820 Batoto will be closing permanently

Posted by Purple Library Guy on 08 January 2018 - 06:34 AM

Well.  No way could I have stuck it out as long in your place.  Thanks for all these years of hard work. 

It's strange to realize just how much of my leisure time I have spent on this site for the last few years.  It has been by far the best, both to use, as a place of community, and above all in its ethics.  I'm going to miss Batoto badly, and all the avatars I've come to recognize and appreciate the minds behind.  Damn, damn, damn, dash it all, now what?




#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



#1850662 Trying to find out the name of a manhua

Posted by _S_ on 23 December 2017 - 05:32 PM

Found it. The title is Life Howling for anyone interested.

https://vatoto.com/comic/_/comics/life-howling-r17859




#1796909 Emergency maintenance - 2017/06/09

Posted by Grumpy on 09 June 2017 - 07:58 AM

I think everything is migrated now. Everything that matters anyway...

 

If something is broken but was working before, please report here. Thank you.

 

 

 

p.s. I know the flash uploader is sometimes working and sometimes not working. Just refresh a few times or a different browser. It's weird... I know. Or use remote upload.

p.p.s. Batoto Twitter: @BatotoStatus Bookmark or follow for these kind of stuff. I can't use the forums to say stuff if the forums is down. I don't use it unless I have something to say about the status though. So... don't ask me questions there.






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