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Fixed redirect on batoto.com, .net, .org and www. version of it to vatoto.com

 

Bet there's still more stuff to update somewhere that I can't remember.

I have updated the logo on all the themes now. 

Setup new analytics and webmasters tools for the site.

Along with my grandfathered gsuite that i'm gonna use forever and google can never charge me. [email protected] is now functional.

Recached everything.

Reconfiged everything... stupid site has way too many specific rules.

Updated urls on chat

Wrote up prettier dead notice on bato.to, which now deletes all cookies on visit.

Removed ad codes from everywhere I can remember.

Added dog.

 

Did I miss anything? Why am I making work for myself?

 

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Updated privacy, tos and abuse pages.

Updated IPB license.

All the bato.to links in posts and comments have been updated to vatoto.com.

There is another Manga Site that looks like it could be something special like Batoto was for all of us.

 

Tetrasky in another forum post said this and we need to draw more attention to it!

 

Go to that website and talk to all the scanlators that you know, we can keep on going, just on a different site if needed. Something similar happened to a different site that I frequented (though YoManga was muddled in a pit of controversy to go with it) and they managed to migrate and stay strong despite losing the initial site. 

 

WE CAN DO THE SAME!!! DON'T GIVE UP, JUST GET UP!

 

Here's hoping https://mangadex.com will be able to attract scanlators and increase their repertoire. It seems to be starting nicely so far. 

If anyone can succeed Batoto, it's Doki.

 

...Honestly I'm just glad that this was more profitable to someone than pornography was.

It does feel a little wrong though. Like it will be misused to represent their site as batoto to casual readers, or more frustratingly to anyone who followed any old notices saying "please use batoto". Such people will be few, though, I think.

You should probably be made aware that this site is closing down.  Not much point in making suggestions.

Never came here despite getting the account about two months or so ago. Seems only right to give an introduction before all servers go down.

 

Hi all, I came here from novel updates ()/ pleasure to make your acquaintance

Manga was the easiest addiction I've ever had to satisfy. 

 

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Being addicted to manga is not like being addicted to smoking, sex or even to hard drugs.

 

Anytime anywhere for any reason and with zero cost you can access manga.

 

Spend hours of your life entranced by the art form while completely ignoring the real world and your problems.

 

..................................................

 

For the last 5 years Batato became my source for this Addiction.

 

I've never truly contributed to Batato.

 

No equivalent exchange for the service they provided.

 

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Never gave any money.

 

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Never helped the new members.

 

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Just used it as a source for manga

 

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So now at the end I've still got nothing to offer Batato.

 

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Except my gratitude.

 

Thank you for everything. I enjoyed the ride

 

 

Would be nice if the follow export also included last chapter read.

That isn’t tracked though...?

 

Well, I’ll just leave this here: https://vatoto.com/forums/topic/28911-export-my-follows-with-related-data/

I was hoping to get a conformation "stuff you" from "Hopefully someone is competent is up to it."

 

 

 

stupid kissmanga keeps giving me "Banned - please try to disable VPN." on some servers. I've got over 800 to choose from and most of them work

 

I get they don't want scrapers, even though they scrape batoto. Still, annoying for VPN users.

 

 

The more I've looked, the more I'm certain. Mangaupdates with grease/tampermonkey scripts is the only way to go without a scanlator friendly site like batoto.

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.

hey, it would be great if you could add the name of the grouop(s) translating the manga to the export (or their website). So we would have sth. like:

id - manga name - goup name (or link)

It would make the transition much easier.

Batoto quickly became my favorite reader because it identified and even let us communicate with scanlation groups.  I cant think of any other aggregate sites that even identify where they got their pages from. 

 

Ill second Kissmanga as a next best thing. They have similar comment sections on each manga's title page and while they don't link scanlation groups there, they don't remove pages that identify them either. 

@istinkalot, that just brings me to the old follows link, which doesn't work for me due to the number of comics i have.

It works on my mod account, but not on my regular reading account. 3.8k comics to go though is too for the server to handle right now.

Even when the old follows was working for me in the past, it still took some time for everything to load.

 

The last complete server downtime that batoto had on dec 19th or so was pretty bad and the servers haven't been behaving well ever since.