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Kojiro_S

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#1686595 Fake Batoto site warning!

Posted by Grumpy on 21 December 2015 - 01:02 AM

I've been getting notices from various users about fake Batoto sites that's out there.

It looks exactly like us (pretty sure direct copy of everything), but with their own ads.

 

DO NOT LOGIN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE on the fake site. They're stealing your id/passwords. If you end up on that site for any reason, LEAVE IMMEDIATELY.

If you ever logged in to one of those sites before, change your password on EVERY SITE that uses the same password, not just here.

 

Our domain is bato.to. Anything else is fake.




#1651643 Moving forward: Upcoming changes and schedules

Posted by Grumpy on 23 October 2015 - 01:46 PM

New reader is now live. Feel free to report bugs in support...  :ph34r:

 

Old reader URLs are still functioning but will be taken down later (roughly a day). I imagine the change will require lots of update for everyone and does cause quite a bit of inconvenience. But crawlers will have saved them and would be able to continue to use past data. I am keeping it up for some time to reduce the inconvenience to the ones who have uploaded, especially recently.

 

I will be monitoring performance to see if everything's nice and smooth. If not, switch back.

 

 

 

Minor point:

With coming holiday seasons, seems like ad networks have a lot of new stuff, which also means lot of bad ads. :( You can report them here which I then forward to networks to resolve. I've also added a few things to cripple the ads a bit in case you do get a bad ad. Should help a little...




#1651226 Moving forward: Upcoming changes and schedules

Posted by Grumpy on 22 October 2015 - 03:19 PM

Other thread is so clogged, felt like a new announcement would be more visible. This thread is locked and purely for announcement only.

 

Bot Mitigation

I will be implementing some bot mitigation techniques. This will be the first of changes along with different reader. From the brainstorms, I've learned a few things that may assist in curbing bots, in addition what I thought of implementing. Some of it will be a bit more of an enterprise solution, some of it will be custom solutions, and some of it will just be basic changes that make crawling more of a hassle.

 

These will be added over a long period of time. Almost all of these are machine targeting machine. And you won't even see it.

 

Changes to Reader

To assist with the bot mitigation and reduction of resource usage, the reader will be changed a bit. It will look mostly the same, some might not even notice. But it is coded in a way that'll help me track the abuses more as well as making it lighter weight. So, the users should be able to hit next page faster too. Yay! This is already coded and being tested.

 

Unfortunately, this comes with new URL scheme. Old URLs will be shut down once new is fully operational and without issues.

 

Also, it will now require javascript & cookies to function. So... to the <1% that has it off. Sorry.

 

Membership Requirement

This has been a source of lot of controversy, but I do still find it almost certain it will happen. Yes, some users will leave. Ad revenue may go down, but so will operating costs. They always move together. I foresee no financial concern from this change. On top of that, kenshin has offered more help that's acting as a safety net in terms of cost issues. And if that means I get to have more horsepower to serve the members that care, I see no real concern. I believe what made Batoto into the giant that we have grown into are the contributors. And by contributors, I mean from people who's uploaded thousands of chapters and to people who's made a single comment about their thoughts. Contents are what makes this site, and they already are members.

 

There are no plans to close membership nor anything like a paywall. You can register anytime you want, and become part of this community.

 

Membership requirement will not be a sudden switch. It will be eased in. And what requires membership will slowly grow. The slow pace will give me the numbers to confirm/break my expectations. And that is from where I'll ultimately draw the final choice, not from guesses or what might be. I can't see the future, nor can anyone else from thin air.

 

Uploader's Private Direct Link

This is one change of direction I realized may be helpful after reading the feedbacks in various places. The uploader, optionally can generate a second URL to the chapter. It will not be mentioned anywhere on this site, but people coming to that URL from the source site won't need membership to view. That way, we can still provide a reliable way for uploaders to share without affecting the anti-crawl of our system.

 

I will likely add this sometime while membership requirement is being eased in. Hopefully in early stage.

 

Why are Changes Being Made Now?

Quite a lot seemed confused about this. I do apologize for lack of clarity initially. I've said before, but complete prevention of copying Batoto isn't the goal. It's just not possible. I know that some of them have humans to copy from Batoto in rare occasions that I troll them with fake contents. Goal is to reduce it.

 

Over the years of maintaining Batoto, I didn't do it alone. I have hired other professionals in the past occasionally to help. And their first reaction to my server is always that I'm getting DDoS'ed. If that were true, this is the longest DDoS in history of the internet. (They do eventually know that it's not) We just get crawled that much. We have to get it down to a reasonable level where it's manageable. This, is a viable goal.

 

It's not that Batoto's going to die tomorrow without making the change. Or a month or etc. It's an ever growing problem and has to be tackled sometime. Doing nothing is to just shut down.

 

After

Hopefully focus can be sent back to bunch of stuff that's like 80% done but never finalized... Like follows overhaul. Flattr/changetip that was started like years ago... So much in queue.

 

Self-Published Titles

None of this applies to self published titles. Except automatic bot mitigation.




#673049 [FIXED] To Aru Kagaku no Railgun broken(?) chapter

Posted by SoundSpark on 12 May 2013 - 08:37 PM

looks like someone took care of it




#450262 "My Follows" list stopped working.

Posted by Grumpy on 12 December 2012 - 01:28 PM

Fixed!
Sorry about that. (screwed up)


#437284 Binbougami Ga! Wrong volume for latest chapter

Posted by powha on 27 November 2012 - 10:44 PM

Fixed~


#392169 Breath of Fire -Tsubasa no Oujo- please delete old chapter 1

Posted by KidCongo on 17 October 2012 - 07:14 PM

Done.


#327847 Binbougami Ga! Wrong volume for latest chapters

Posted by Loki on 01 September 2012 - 04:26 AM

Have fun.


#259599 Koharu no Hibi: loooooooong comment messed up page layout.

Posted by Trebor on 13 July 2012 - 06:39 AM

Don't see this, so I'm assuming someone else already took care of this.


#221794 Items in follow list always listed as "new"

Posted by wintercry on 07 June 2012 - 07:38 PM

This problem appeared after the maintenance. And yes, I also have the problem. Everybody do.


#220934 Esprit v3 c11.5 = redundant chapter

Posted by KidCongo on 06 June 2012 - 06:16 AM

I re-uploaded c.11 without the extra.


#211108 To Aru Majutsu no Index X To Aru Kagaku no Railgun 4 Koma Anthology

Posted by powha on 24 May 2012 - 06:21 PM

If someone has it, feel free to upload. :D
I contacted the uploader, will see if he reuploads it. ^^


#17148 Batoto is...

Posted by Grumpy on 27 September 2011 - 04:47 AM

(This is probably overdue... but better late than never)

Dear readers, fans, contributors, authors and friends,

Through this small letter of mine to you, I hope to let everyone understand what Batoto is all about -- why we exist, what we wish to exist for and why we must exist. Batoto at a glance is just another online comic reader, an aggregate of comics. But we exist for a goal much different than the others. We exist so that the community, the ecology, and the value, the economy, of comics have a place to exist.

I'm sure almost all of you have found your way here to read a scanlation -- a derivative work created by fans for the fans of an original comic. Scanlations exist because there is no other way. Without scanlations much of the world populous would be unable to read your favorite comics, whether it be a manga (Japanese), manhwa (Korean), manhua (Chinese) or any other origin, due to barriers of language and barriers of finances. Ordering a comic that you cannot read from a country far away where shipping will easily out price the comic 3 to 1 is just not possible for many of us. I'm sure you've had moments where you laughed and cried (or you didn't read enough!) as you read them. But the joy that it brought to you is a moment that everyone deserves and a moment that we hope to share. And that is why scanlation exist. As much as many of us wish that all of this can be done for free of charge, free of hassle, that is not possible. There are expenses; you need to pay for your comics, you need to buy equipments to make the process possible, you need to pay for hosting your content, and etc. Then there are those who earn through this process; your hosting company earned, even your electric power company earned, and etc. You see, everything in the world has an intricate active economy no matter what. Sometimes you need to spend more, sometimes less. And when the costs end up being too high, you may have to just stop. And that is why Batoto exists. Batoto hosts not only your comics but also the groups' own ads with them for participating groups. This gives them the chance to recoup their costs through their own advertiser(s) for who need it. This may not be a lot, but through their earnings, it secures their ability to continue and motivate to do more. (While this crossed out statement is still within Batoto's ideals, we are currently unable to do so due to changes in ad networks' function. We will re-enable this feature if/when we can.)

Now that is why we exist today, but we want be and do so much more. Primarily we want to be a place where you can publish your own. Next, we also want to truly be part of the economy of comics. Today, there is no place where you can publish your own comics without heavy restrictions or retain your rights to your work except through self publication. But if you were to publish your own web comics on your own website, vast majority will struggle to even get hundreds of views. Numbers like these will not be able to financially help the author. So, just like we make the impact for scanlation, we want to do the same for self published work. A place where they'll retain full rights and immediately be introduced to potentially millions of viewers. Then, perhaps, they can spend their energy in creativity of their work rather than worrying about their next meal. Another wish for Batoto is to be able to be in a position to buy licenses to increase our reaches to more comics in more languages than ever before. This way, our existence benefits the ecology and the economy of the comic world.

Lastly, Batoto must exist. Today, there is a growing trend in the comic world that's quite frightening and making me grumpy. That is: loss of respect. Some of our competitors are doing things that are just wrong. Some are doing things against the wishes of their scanlators, publishers and/or authors. Hosting the content even when requested not to. Frequently even ignoring DMCA notices as the reaches of the law are often powerless in the Internet. Some are even going as far as claiming that the works are their own. What can we do when even the law can't? We can show people that there is a better way. We can educate people to do things the right way. And we want to show that doing right way doesn't even require more effort or cost. Though we may not be able to eliminate those who disrespect others, we hope to diminish their effects and their powers by simply being the better alternative.

Batoto is a publisher that just wants to make things right.

Sincerely,
Founder of Batoto, the one who is grumpy about what's wrong.




#173083 Fetishes, i has.

Posted by bushwhacker2k on 25 April 2012 - 02:58 PM

Buut~
It was MADE to be perverted !
It`s about fetishes, and i don`t want normal ones,
I want to read the craziest shit, so i can say ``This made my day!`` :batoto_024:


I'm kind of in the middle ground, I'd rather hear about unique and interesting ones but I don't want to know about the things that are just basically gross...

Petite red heads (NOT loli).


I like loli, but I also like petite(kinda pettanko, but small girls in general) and redheads are awesome.


#172051 To Aru Majutsu no Index chapter 49 is shown as 48

Posted by powha on 24 April 2012 - 10:20 PM

Fixedesu.