DLRevan

To everybody wondering why Grumpy isn't just handing the torch to somebody else or hiring more sysadmins, it's not a matter of trust or not finding anybody. I've discussed this with Grumpy myself several times. There's more to running a site like this than just keeping up with visitor demand. The details are brutal, and "more help" won't solve the biggest problems and stress causers behind the scenes.

Grumpy deciding to shut down the site instead of just dumping the problems on other people is well within his rights, and though it hurts me knowing the only place I've read manga (except on my ipad, which hate batoto for some reason) will be closing, I'll send Grumpy off with a smile and a wave, hoping that he lives a damned good life from now on for giving us this site for as long as he did.

As some one who knows how to run a database heavy site that serves content though, reading Grumpy's description of his life of the past 7 years puzzles me. No site should need one person's 24/7 support reagrdless of what part of the system we're talking about, and Batoto is not fully unique in the type of content it serves, though I cannot comment on the backend because it sounds strange to me that it takes this much effort. I'm not saying its easy, but it should be sane. Unless this is about handling DMCAs and other non-system related administration, though I don't see why one person has to do all of it either.

I still think you guys should hand off the site to someone else. If "someone else" fails at continuing the site to an appropriate standard, under a new label if necessary, at least an attempt was made. Take that as an offer if you like, I would be willing to discuss doing it, though I'm sure there are plenty of interested parties.