God Ginrai

I didn't see an edit option in the status section. How would I make such a change? I'm only aware of being able to edit titles and genres.

-God Ginrai

click "edit" below the cover image

I know this gets posted very often in the suggestion and with merit. But I want to share with people what I envision at least. And get a good sense of how people would feel about this change. Once complete, I will remove the existing comic follows (both the old and newer that we have).

 

The current follows system is a mix of my custom work based on IPB's core follow system. I had initially used the IPB's core follow in hopes that it'll help me in development and implementation. But I was very wrong. My attempts to use it in the manner which we use it turned out to be very inefficient and limiting. So, it will be removed entirely. I'm not saying your follow list is going to be emptied, of course, they will be imported to the new system. I'm saying the new version will not use IPB's core follow anymore.

 

Phase 1: 

The adherence to the language selection will obviously be supported.

 

This will be composed of 2 3 parts. The latest updates (like you see now in your follows) and list of comics. But the list of comics will contain information much like the old follows. This includes when it was updated and what you've last read. The comics will be sorted alphabetically and will have pages for those of you who have many follows.

 

Phase 1 will completely replace the "newer" follows. As it has no missing feature that the previous has, it shouldn't be any issue.

 

Phase 1.5:

Not a significant phase. But I'll also add export feature to export your current list.

 

Phase 2:

Additional sorting of the comics will be added. Including:

• by latest release
• by popularity (probably will be some form of follow count)

This cannot be done at the same time due to how we currently track comics. Or... lack of how we track comics. A lot of change will have to occur before the phase 2 can get started. This stage will also open additional doors to sorting via follows in comic search (I know that gets brought up lot too) as well as more accurate follow count.

 

End of Phase 2 will completely remove the old follows. As it has no missing feature that the previous has, it shouldn't be any issue.

 

Phase 3:

Option to remember what you've read.

This is per chapter. It will remember ALL the chapters you've read and mark it so. This applies to comic page as well (not the front page though). If there are chapters you've read already, they will be marked like this.

For your privacy, this feature will be off by default. So, we're not like youtube who remembers things you watched even if you delete your history...

 

Multiple follow list!

There will be a default: "My Follows" category which holds your follows. And then you can create additional categories. You can name each categories whatever you want, though I think i'll restrict you to alphanumeric characters (and space) in what you can name them for less hassle security reasons. So you can create categories like "Completed", "To read", etc. to organize your follows in your own custom setup.

 

Public lists. You can make your list public. It will be set to hidden by default.

 

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Follows for groups will be left as is. I have no plans for that right now. And I have enough plans.

I've created a bookmarklet that when clicked while on Batotos homepage will only show comics in english.

Install the bookmarklet

• Drag the following link to your bookmarksbar: Batoto Eng
• Right click the bookmark and select Edit.
• Change the URL/Webadress to the javaScript code below.
• Done.

Using the bookmarklet

• Go to Batoto.com and let it load.
• Click the Batoto Eng bookmark in your bookmarks bar.

Other languages
For other languages replace lang_English in the code to e.g.

• lang_Spanish
• lang_French
• lang_Portuguese
• lang_Turkish
• lang_Thai
• lang_Italian
• lang_German

javascript:(function(){

/* START BOOKMARKLET */
/* Bookmarklet developed by Akusai 2013 */

var contentTable = document.getElementsByClassName('chapters_list')[0];
var targets = document.getElementsByClassName('lang_English');

var len = targets.length;
var tableRows = new Array();
for(var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
tableRows[i] = targets[i].cloneNode(true)
}

contentTable.innerHTML = "";

for(var i = 0; i < len; i++) {
contentTable.appendChild(tableRows[i]);
}

/* END BOOKMARKLET */

/*
getElementsByClassName function was developed by Robert Nyman, http://www.robertnyman.com
Code/licensing: http://code.google.com/p/getelementsbyclassname/
*/
var getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm){
if (document.getElementsByClassName) {
  getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm) {
   elm = elm || document;
   var elements = elm.getElementsByClassName(className),
    nodeName = (tag)? new RegExp("\\b" + tag + "\\b", "i") : null,
    returnElements = [],
    current;
   for(var i=0, il=elements.length; i<il; i+=1){
    current = elements[i];
    if(!nodeName || nodeName.test(current.nodeName)) {
	 returnElements.push(current);
    }
   }
   return returnElements;
  };
}
else if (document.evaluate) {
  getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm) {
   tag = tag || "*";
   elm = elm || document;
   var classes = className.split(" "),
    classesToCheck = "",
    xhtmlNamespace = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml",
    namespaceResolver = (document.documentElement.namespaceURI === xhtmlNamespace)? xhtmlNamespace : null,
    returnElements = [],
    elements,
    node;
   for(var j=0, jl=classes.length; j<jl; j+=1){
    classesToCheck += "[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' " + classes[j] + " ')]";
   }
   try {
    elements = document.evaluate(".//" + tag + classesToCheck, elm, namespaceResolver, 0, null);
   }
   catch (e) {
    elements = document.evaluate(".//" + tag + classesToCheck, elm, null, 0, null);
   }
   while ((node = elements.iterateNext())) {
    returnElements.push(node);
   }
   return returnElements;
  };
}
else {
  getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm) {
   tag = tag || "*";
   elm = elm || document;
   var classes = className.split(" "),
    classesToCheck = [],
    elements = (tag === "*" && elm.all)? elm.all : elm.getElementsByTagName(tag),
    current,
    returnElements = [],
    match;
   for(var k=0, kl=classes.length; k<kl; k+=1){
    classesToCheck.push(new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + classes[k] + "(\\s|$)"));
   }
   for(var l=0, ll=elements.length; l<ll; l+=1){
    current = elements[l];
    match = false;
    for(var m=0, ml=classesToCheck.length; m<ml; m+=1){
	 match = classesToCheck[m].test(current.className);
	 if (!match) {
	  break;
	 }
    }
    if (match) {
	 returnElements.push(current);
    }
   }
   return returnElements;
  };
}
return getElementsByClassName(className, tag, elm);
};

})(); 

I hope you'll find it useful.

Besides, it's a common knowledge that shounen, seinen and the rest are not genres, but demography at which a certain comic is targeted.

"common knowledge" or not, Batoto refers to shounen, shoujo, seinen and josei as genres............as does every other reader site.

You could probably find a place on the comic page that you could put a toggle, so that people don't have to go out of their way to toggle the comments off.



-God Ginrai

How about placing the comment stream below the text box (youtube-like). It would make sense since the newest comment goes to the top anyway, and it would place the toggle at the bottom of the page which is not out of the way.

It's still less convenient than the i. And if it is possible to put it on the front page, it should be possible to put it elsewhere

Music- For the same reason there is a sports tag. There are many manga plots that are centered around music.

I would just like to add in a suggestion, if grumpy still reads this thread.

Status:
Ongoing

is what we see now on a comic page. I suggest that the 'status' be changed to 'scanlation status:', this should fix all issues regarding whether the status refers to scanlation or manga status. If people wish to know the manga status and not the scanlation status, there's always mangaupdates.

I dream of a world where shirtless men get the same rating as shirtless women let the sexism end!