RIP goddess
>cicada noises
No.
RIP uploading the Koran a thousand times to the non light novels folder under various spellings.
It's sad that they also kicked out all novels which are closly related to anime and manga.
Like LoGH, NHK or Tatami Galaxy...
>>142637345
Wait, seriously? At the very least, novels that have anime adaptations should be retained.
>>142637428
Yeah I also think so.
But I believe they are throwing every novel out which does not have an entry on mangaupdates.
What about artbooks, are they still allowed?
>>142637735
Well they are on mangaupdates.
And you can still find them on the page.
>>142635582
So... nothing really lost. Fine.
>>142635582
nothing of value was lost
>>142637875
>>142637876
>LoGH
>nothing lost
k
>>142635582
And thus, it begins its downfall.
>>142637983
You wish.
Sucks that they are also getting rid of the raw manga. I can get scanlations from 32763 different sources, but raws are a bit more difficult to find and it was convenient for uploading stuff myself.
Speaking of raws, it's been almost a month since jcafe died. Is there anyone that has any clue what happened? Any word from the admin or anything?
>>142635582
Wait, why are they stopping raws? That stuff gets deleted in most places, and it's on mangaupdates.
>>142635582
> Cicada noises
Stopped reading there.
>>142635582
Doesn't feel like anything has changed.
>>142635582
I agree with everything but raws. I liked that secret club had raws.
>jcafe down
>goddess going to shit
So where am I supposed to upload raws now?
>>142642162
Nyaa
>>142642162
Just ask the guy who runs it in the IRC. There are fuck all places for raws and there's nothing wrong with Madokami having them.
>>142642548
I'm willing to upload shit once and forget about it, not leave it seeding all the time in case someone feels like downloading it.
>>142642716
How likely are they to actually change their minds if enough people ask?
>>142635582
Time to bid the chinks
I really doubt non-light novels are placing an immense stress on the servers
>>142643570
Probably will if there's enough people. Raws are pretty important.
>>142643915
If I am reading the post correctly, the reason is not at all stress on the servers.
It rather seem to be the effort required to keep the non-light novels in a proper quality (removing inferior/broken/dublicates, making sure the context actually is what its labeled as, and so on.)
And if not enought people on staff (or unregistered volunteers, whatever) care about non-light novels, it gets the axe.
I'm actually surprised MU is continuing to index light novels as there seem to be a really low interest in novels from most mods.
Why the fuck would you stop allowing to upload raws, especially with jcafe being down right now?
Fucking bullshit
>>142644392
>MU
Manga updates shouldn't index Chinese shit and light novels, it just makes a mess of the releases page. I mean, there's fucking novel updates, I don't need that shit on Manga Updates.
>>142644392
Well, I'll admit that the raws section can be a bit of a clusterfuck since it isn't automatically organized like translations are, but I'd say that's acceptable if it's literally the only good place left to put them.
>>142638994
just buy the tanks from amazon to be quite honest
Differentiating LNs and non-LN prose is a mistake. There's nothing about LoGH and Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon that makes one an LN and one not an LN, beyond the largely arbitrary and ever-changing whims of publishers.
LN is a marketing buzzword. Don't fall for the meme.
>>142645620
This
100% this
>>142644917
Please read the whole post before you comment on something.
> and it was convenient for uploading stuff myself.
>>142645982
so? I don't give a shit about your uploads, retard, clearly no one else does
>>142646759
Why do you hate on raws this much?
Ah, so this is my despair.
>>142647345
Congratulations! You learned something new today.
What exactly happened. I expected it to be something like gookshitters started uploading their crap on there
>>142646759
I do, fuck off.
>>142636156
Ok Muhammed, now go spread the faith somewhere else.
>>142635582
I'm not sure I understand what's going on here, but these people don't want "weeb shit" , but they're saying weeb shit like *cicada noises* and their thing is called madokami. Who are they trying to fool?
>>142648542
Yes, you are misunderstanding. They're limiting the scope of the site to only "weeb shit" as in translated manga.
Only thing I will miss is raws.
Ok, contact the admin so we can redirect all of that stuff onto a different extension site. We run on donations to pay for all the expenses for the new servers and domain.
>>142648880
If we do make a new site, we should probably try and keep it off Reddit this time.
>>142648992
Not only don't I see that happening, I don't see it as necessary. I would suggest we simply have a thread where we upload raws to dropbox or whatever, then coordinate a translation, and then upload it when we're done.
>>142649157
>upload raws to dropbox or whatever, then coordinate a translation, and then upload it when we're done.
That would work for maybe a tiny percentage of what gets uploaded. If I buy a magazine and want to upload it, I'm not waiting around for someone to pick up a series in there and start translating it. All I want is to be able to upload shit and forget about it, and then someone who sees the file can then download and do whatever they want with it at any point in the future.
>>142649248
There are a number of systems for distributed datastores in existence. Since the information isn't sensitive or anything, it can be fairly lightweight.
>>142649157
Dropbox has shit deleted or something gone missing all the time, I suggest we don't do that, especially content that big.
>>142649248
If you want to share with the japanese there's haruka-yumenoato but I'm not sure if they allow unresized raws
>>142649506
Yes, most file sharing services tend to delete stuff, have a filesize/total space limit and/or links expire. I wouldn't use any of them for long-term storage.
>>142650836
Don't think I've heard of them before, what makes it any different from other share raw sites?
>>142650836
>I'm not sure if they allow unresized raws
If they don't, they're utterly useless and a waste of time.
>>142635582
...is the number of raws uploaded really that great?
>>142651306
No, they just can't manage it because they are lazy.
Like most of the people here.
>>142651306
Decent enough to be substantial, and it's the default place to put raws so other anons can find them later.
>>142650926
You can post links there, a lot of raws originate from that site
>>142651534
I see. I'd rather not use them though, I don't want to have to resize or go through shitty DL hosts.
>>142635582
>focusing back on translated manga
It sounds like a positive change.
sage.
>>142651682
There are plenty of other places to get translated manga if you need to, but not raws at the moment.
>saging a thread on page 1
>>142651682
Less places to get the raws so we can translate them is not a positive change.
What is this shit? Why doesn't it upload chapters from batoto anymore? Kissmanga downscales images
And nothing of value was lost.
In fact, this just made other things more valuable.
>>142652222
Batoto started taking measures to ban bots.
>>142652331
Jesus fuck
>>142652331
It is getting more and more annoying to keep up with scanlations, fuck this shit.
Batoto really turned into a piece of shit.
>>142635582
Why do people care about online reading? Seems like the most useless feature.
>>142652222
They do? I thought Kissmanga kept the original res.
>>142652506
Remember when you had to visit the scanlators own site and download releases? Welcome back.
>>142652636
Batoto x1600 png
Kissmanga x1040 jpg
>>142652506
>Batoto really turned into a piece of shit.
To be fair, the intent was to block all the manga[animal] aggregator shit sites spamming them to the point that it was slowing down their servers. The goddess just happened to be doing the same thing.
>>142652636
Not the same anon, but I noticed some releases are resized while others are normal.
>>142652636
I think Kissmanga picks up garbage from literally anywhere so it might just be down to luck. They might not resize and alter the image themselves, they might just pick them up already resized. Don't take my word for it though, as I have never really used the site for any significant amount of time.
>>142652331
Batoto has not implemented any hard measures against content scraping. It's still pretty easy.
>>142653319
then upload it to madokami you fuck
>>142653382
Too much effort and my existing code is not intended for upload.
>>142653319
I don't remember the exact numbers, but if you pass a certain amount of requests per hour or hit the 404 page too many times you're assumed to be a bot and therefore banned. There was one Chrome extension that tracked new releases by spamming with requests and got all its users banned the first day they implemented it.
What is this?
>>142653571
Guess it doesn't matter cuz it's shit now
>>142653571
Some shit site run by a shit fanbase.
>>142635582
whether it's a website ?
>>142635582
what it means if a website has been closed ?
>people even mentioning kissmanga
absolutelydisgust.jpg
>>142653752
English.exe not found
So, where is that archive by that guy who donated bitcoins to mangatraders?
>>142653791
Yeah, god forbid anyone mentions anything. If we shut our windows hard enough, the rest of the world will disappear.
>>142654062
It was uploaded to nyaa 6 months ago.
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=764691
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=764911
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=765143
>>142635582
what website ?
>>142653791
It really is surprising. I didn't think there were that many people still reading things on these garbage ass aggregators. How hard is it to go to the scantlators site and download it? Or if all else fails, at least grab it off of mado, if it's not some shitty rip there itself.
>>142654191
mangafox
>>142654153
Oh shit, thanks, I thought it was dead in the water and tried to make a sarcastic comment. Seems like not-so-bad things can happen.
>>142654209
>mentioning a site=reading shit on it
Literally the only reason it came up is because madokami leeches from it. Are you people completely retarded and unable to follow a simple 5 post long conversation?
>>142654229
but the website still works
>>142654209
I'm fine with Batoto, since it's the scanlators themselves uploading it there. I just use some CSS/JS to load the whole chapter on one page and it's much easier than downloading.
>>142654080
i wish
>>142654314
Sorry, meant mangaweasel.moe
>>142635582
Madokami access is needed.
>>142654209
Read the thread fucking idiots
>>142654494
Why are you so hostile?
>>142654547
Why are you so stupid?
Madokami has a bunch of shit you can't find anywhere else (for free). I don't get all the hate.
It's also great for downloading those giant licensed manga rips.
>>142654547
Not even him, but people acting with a condescending attitude while not even understanding what the argument is about should not be allowed to post.
>>142654639
link
>>142654642
>>142654575
You guys know this is just manga right?
>>142654639
Yeah, I wonder too why people hate seeing a good site turn slowly into shit.
>>142654702
Stupid people should be banned
>>142654735
Madokami was never intended for raw manga you retarded shit.
>>142654294
>>142654494
I was saying that mado leeches from them because they are used so much. And because it leeches from them, we get their shitty downscales taking up half the page on most any give series.
>>142654735
>turn slowly into shit
So turning into shit means not allowing western novels?
As for raws one of the arguments is that almost no one can read runes and considering that there's raws for translated stuff it's kind of a waste of space if the quality is low. It's also 334GB, so it's something to care about.
Also someone made a mega link for those novels that got purged I could post it if someone wants it. This is what is on the link http://pastebin.com/cbfYnG0e
>>142654739
/a/'s worst problem.
>fucking things over because you're lazy
cancer
>>142648992
This. There's no point in investing more into it if it's just going to be overrun by faggots we have no way to get rid of.
>>142654739
But all weebs are stupid
>>142654639
I do not understand this either. With trackers anons will give anyone who recommends an AB account shit, but whenever nyaa goes down for an hour they'll make a dozen threads in a panic. Why would you ever not want multiple options for sourcing your shit?
>>142654265
You're welcome.
>06/09/16
Happy Anniversary of the DEATH of MangaTraders, by the way. It's been exactly two years now.
>>142654858
It may not have been the original intention when they were setting up a MT replacement, but the folder's been there pretty much since day one.
>>142650886
That's why I suggested a distributed FS like Tahoe or PerfectDark.
>>142654987
>So turning into shit means not allowing western novels?
If this all that was purged, no problem. Did you even look at your link? It is far from "western novels", look at the section "Japanese Authors".
>>142654858
And it became one of its function, why is this a problem? If the people in charge of it would say "we are looking for a way to keep this up in the future, but with restrictions to ensure high quality", that would be good.
But this is not what they are doing, they want to remove it completely which is dumb.
I guess it's time to download the licensed stuff before they take it down
>>142655070
And how many years has it been since your terrible anime adaptation?
>taking down the only things that people go there for in the first place
Bravo.
>>142655378
On the link is everything that was purged, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese Novels. And yes, I am in favor of keeping weeb novels and those that were adapted into anime or heavily influenced it, but iirc admins were against that for some reason (can't remember exactly why). Something about that it needs sorting and that requires time.
>>142655783
Oh so you go there for the Koran and the Holy Bible?
He banned me from the IRC after I called him a dumbass
Worth it 2bh
>>142655821
I think he means raws.
>>142655837
Autist staff
What site is this for again?
No really I don't recall /a/ really talking about this. I don't want in or anything but why are we panicking?
Threads like these remind me about how /a/ is mostly ignorant casuals.
>>142655888
Their personal IRC is not 4chan. People seem to forget that.
>>142655848
He was talking about my link. We weren't discussing about raws.
>>142655837
How long ago was this?
>>142655915
Back to your anime threads.
>>142655953
>He was talking about my link. We weren't discussing about raws.
I mean this >>142655783
>>142655997
Raws are taking a lot of space and almost no one uses them, stated problems in >>142654987
I'm against of putting them away too though, maybe I'll end up downloading all of them. The alternate server idea that someone stated wasn't bad, I also think that one of the admins had a server that was about to expire or some shit and was pretty cheap, I'd take on this idea if I was a decent sysadmin, but I'm not.
>>142656085
Kill yourself.
>>142656195
Like I said, the only way to ensure consistent access is if we all pool our resources together on a sharing network. Even trackers are vulnerable to being shut down. We could either solve this problem the right way now, or do it the wrong way and suffer for it later.
Fuck. Not happy about the raws. 80% of scanslation sucks and over 65% aren't even translated directly from Japanese.
Being able to read scanslation and raws side by side is great for the Japanese learner or jlpt 3/4 who don't want to have to look shit up from the dictionary constantly. Moreover, scanslations are usually from magazine raws and lack the extras that are in tanks.
We need a place to archive tank raws damnit.
>>142635582
oh, you had me worried
This is fine. I don't care at all.
>>142635582
hey, wait
>raws
there's nothing wrong with that
hope they decide to re-implement
>>142656560
>sharing network
I don't like that idea at all, just a madokami for raws is better.
>One of my 2TB kimsufis was going to be canceled this month
>You can have if you want
>10EUR for 2TB of storage
This is what one of the admins said 3 days ago to store raws.
For Raws and japanese novels.
Why can't we just have two folders where no one gives a fuck if it is not organized enough or fulfill their definition of "quality". Just so that people can still upload stuff like lotgh.
If it were not for madokami I would not have been able to read it.
Makes me sad that I will not be able to read the other upcomming volumes.
Is there a way to download multiple files at once?
>>142656880
jdownloader
your browser
>>142656810
Because it takes space.
>>142656880
Have you tried to click at more than one link or using FTP?
>>142656880
use downthemall and select zips from links
>>142656880
ftp
Finally people will stop uploading chink and korean scans.
>>142656880
FileZilla.
Just download all the shit you want.
![Jewelpet Magical Change 34 [ai-raw].mkv_snapshot_16.33_[2016.03.08_13.34.14].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/WXB2eql.jpg "Jewelpet Magical Change 34 [ai-raw].mkv_snapshot_16.33_[2016.03.08_13.34.14].jpg")
Fuck. Less places for raws is not good.
>>142656613
Personally I've been wanting something like:
>take danbooru
>remove image tagging system
>upload raws
>organize series into pools
>give pools better organization for chapter grouping
>Have translators add notes just like danbooru does with doujins
And boom, raw hosting website with soft translations that can be edited and discussed at translators' leisure.
>>142657047
>>142654062
Blue is that guy.
>>142656924
Sure Raws do take space.
But novels closly related to anime?
To keep that small amount of those you can't even see a real diffrence in space usage.
Besides lightnovel is just a fancy name for the same thing.
>>142656801
We can have one or more centralized servers, but the purpose of the network would be to allow us to rebuild from everyone's existing raws if need be.
>>142657132
>But novels closly related to anime?
I'm not against that at all.
But it falls under scope creep or some shit.
>>142657180
I think I don't even understand your idea.
>>142657047
You should make that place yourself.
>>142654080
>If we shut our windows hard enough, the rest of the world will disappear
Nothing is happening.
Is there a magical incantation I need to say?
>>142657047
We can do that.
>>142657316
Kinda like bittorrent/i2p/freenet, but simpler
>>142657047
>Hover over text
>Receive translation
No more having to dick around with fonts or typesetting or trying to fit shit into a tiny bubble.
>>142657441
I like blue's idea too, but who's going to do it?
And yeah, I don't like a sharing network idea. I just don't find it appealing.
>>142657316
I don't see hot it falls under scope creep.
Like right now, just put up a folder "weeb novels" in the directory of light novels. Put a txt in it how weeb novels is defined and that the uploader has to watch out for "quality" and if they don't it is their problem.
Than just don't organize it or anything
you just have to delete everything that is not allowed on the site.
Which is something you have to do for every directory so this also won't be any cost increse.
>>142657680
>I don't see hot it falls under scope creep.
Well me neither, and I think for some time they were going to do that, keep weeb novels. I would need to read the logs again since I pretty much scrolled through it because iirc I was sleeping.
>>142657835
I should start lurking in the irc.
But I truly hope they will decide on keeping weeb novels and not just some part of weeb novels which are labled light novels by the publisher for the sake of advertisment.
>>142657369
How much does it cost to host 1TB of raws?
>>142657490
You get it. Easy on translators and makes it potentially faster for some readers to get to read things. You can fix translation mistakes as it goes.
And I'm sure you can dick around with fonts with danbooru anyway.
>>142656914
thanks m8
>>142658354
but you know
it is not worth it to load multiple files at the same time.
you get the maximum download speed even for just one connection
>>142656928
>downthemall
No idea why but this just stopped working for me lately. Reinstalling/updating didn't fix shit, and looking at the logs, whenever I try to download something it throws NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE and the download just hangs at 0%.
>>142658469
It's easier than clicking on 20 volumes
>>142658509
How weird. I've had it for years without issue.
>>142658544
Same, which is why I can't figure out what the hell's going on or how to fix it. I found a single support ticket on their site with the same issue but last I checked it wasn't answered.
Well I'll be sorting through all the japanese lit and reupping it.. somewhere, at least. Mostly the epubs if available.
>>142658519
I know
I mean the settings of jdownloader
>>142658623
I don't relly see the problem in finding something that is already out.
the problem ist that right now people were motivated to upload stuff like the new translations from viz f.e. but after madokami kicks japanese lit out no one will upload the rips. so if you can't buy the ebook version you are fucked.
>>142658792
Well we've been talking about keeping the "weeb" stuff, which I think includes haikasoru works. Or at the very least, should.
>>142658844
as long as the weeb stuff gets moved out of the PURGATORY folder everything will be fine.
I think.
>>142658190
It's trivially easy to store translations seperately from the raws themselves, and in a very compact way I might add, by using a simple image map. Then you just need an HTML generator to combine them into a static page you can view in a browser.
>>142659004
Wasn't that how J-Comi worked?
Hello, Sunako here from madokami. I'm somewhat busy today so I have only a few points to make as follows:
1: We aren't kicking out anime related novels such as LoGH, those types of things being in the purgatory are merely an oversight we'll fix in time.
2: Nothing is immediately in danger of deletion, things are just read only until we make a more final decision regarding content guidelines.
3:We aren't final on raws being out, as it is now we are thinking about allowing them in some limited scope, this is up for discussion. If you are willing to be civil while talking to us about it join the IRC channel to have some influence on the decision for this.
You can verify my(and maybe qq's?) trip via this file on the website: https://manga.madokami.com/Info/trips.txt
>>142655070
>2 years
Damn, it's been a while. That was a good shitstorm though.
>>142655070
MT works again.
>>142659320
ur gay
WAIT, JCAFE DIED?
>>142659397
Months ago.
>>142659320
That's good news.
>>142659440
Months? But I remember downloading Adam a couple of months ago.
>>142659004
Took me three rereads to understand what you just said. This web dev stuff is starting to stick. I'm pretty sure it's not difficult. I'm just too broke and hungry to do anything that's not job hunting, essay writing, and email sending. So unless someone was paying me to learn how to do this, I will have to settle with being the idea guy.
>>142659348
>
It's dead.
>>142659498
I think it is down since April.
>>142659320
That is really good news regarding weeb novels.
Thanks for your time.
>>142659320
Aaagh, I hate using IRC.
Anyway I understand why ya'll aren't sure about raws. I feel like just hosting raws that haven't been translated would be nice though. Raws that HAVE been translated can go, which would make me a little sad, but that's a luxury really.
>>142656613
What exactly is a tank scan? Is it a digital release or something?
>>142659531
I love you, Blue.
>>142659004
>>142658190
>>142657490
This needs to happen.
Cutting out redrawing and typesetting would *significantly* speed up the scanslation process.
Allowing readers to proofread or correct translations would improve the script's quality.
>>142659633
>open IRC client on startup
>read chat once in a while
>set up a bouncer if you want to keep everything
Dunno why some people don't like IRC.
>>142659686
Do you not know what a tankoubon is?
>>142659531
So we only need a dev for the web and people to support.
>>142659531
No, it is up and working right now.
Why don't you check it out?
>>142659754
>>Dunno why some people don't like IRC.
I don't hate IRC because I can't/don't know how to use it. Actually, I used it for years and can log in to it very easily/knew how to keep with it. I just don't like it anymore. Lingering foul memories, I can't be bothered.
>>142659686
Tankobon. A collection of chapters published into individual books printed in better quality paper. In addition to having extras, Some authors even make adjustments/corrections to the magazine version.
>>142659607
...Huh.
That sucks, I used it for Youkai Shoujo raws.
>>142659607
Well, I guess I'll never finish Adam then.
>>142659851
>Lingering foul memories
So you got raped and can't into IRC anymore.
>>142660052
kek
>>142660052
pffff
yeah, sure, let's go with that
>>142659754
Yeah, as with every web project. With this kind of thing though, I think it'll all fall into place once it's up and has the goods. If all these sites are going down or questioning their own support of raws, there's clearly a market for a host. A good, active repo of raws will eventually attract translators. And I'm sure they'd enjoy not having to think about typesetting.
But I'm not a translator so I can't say for certain.
>>142659706
That's out of the blue, but I will accept it.
>>142660336
The one thing I would be concerned with, and I'm not sure if it's been addressed in this thread, is potentially how public such a site would be.
There ARE sites that exist that host raws like whatever, uncompressed, right out there to read (like senmanga, which fucking sucks) but I feel like a really good raw site would get well known and then shut down. Well, assuming it was really very public like a normal booru.
>>142660518
It would definitely end up public as all hell. Make no mistake. You can't turn a website with a quality crowd-volunteered service into a secret club. But what kind of things are burdensome to a raw site specifically? Is it DMCA licensing shit (does that even fly with the untranslated works?) or is it just because scans are uncompressed, heavy, and it ends up being a lot to host?
I don't chase after raws so I know zero of this.
>>142660804
Japanese companies go after raw providers harder than scanlations, from what I've seen over the years. Probably because most raw sites are made to serve japanese users.
>>142660804
I'd say DMCA stuff, but I've never hosted things, just observed over the years.
Raws are more "dangerous" because for a nip, that's like, full on piracy even though they could easily get the manga and cheaply over there in their own language.
>>142660518
Make it as private as madokami, but leaving irc channel on page so people can request account. Can't DMCA shit that isn't licensed on US I guess.
>>142660804
>You can't turn a website with a quality crowd-volunteered service into a secret club
Yeah but you need to, no one wants to get it shut down.
>no more raw manga
ćÆć½
>>142661069
>implying Blue's idea isn't going to go through
Just you wait.
>>142661128
It will not happen, because everyone is too lazy.
>>142635582
>wackier registration
pls no, I don't even remember my password anymore, if anything gets reset or cleared I'll never have mangos again ;_;
>expecting people to actually ever help with anything
kek
>>142660899
>>142660931
Good point. Can we ban Nippon IPs and get away with that as our "due diligence"? You know, DMM style.
>>142660947
But then you won't grow as a translation service. I mean, it's GOOD for a site to be on the hushed side if it was is just a place to repo raws like Madokami. But a "transbooru" would probably be best if it were open and people knew about it.
Or you can somehow go door to door to all the scanlators who don't have typesetters and tell them where to find it. Build it up that way.
>>142661128
>>142661304
>>142661494
I lost those expectations two years ago. I don't really expect anyone to follow through on my ideas. It'd be nice though.
But if no one does, you can just give me another two years and I'll start this manga cartel by myself. I can at least count on me. When I have time and money anyway.
>>142661611
>Can we ban Nippon IPs and get away with that as our "due diligence"? You know, DMM style.
I do not know! That SOUNDS legit, though.
>>142661611
Blue-nii!
>>142661611
>Can we ban Nippon IPs and get away with that as our "due diligence"?
I am not sure if this does that much, since what is matters is that they know about it. Once they know about it, they fill find ways to view the site, but it is better than nothing I guess.
>200+ posts
Still falling for the secret club meme I see.
>>142661611
>I can at least count on me.
I have severe doubts that Present You can depend on Future You. After all, think of how many times Present You has disappointed Past You.
>>142661128
I like Blue-nii but he's been talking about putting a server up for fucking years, is not going to happen bro.
>>142661786
>I have severe doubts that Present You can depend on Future You. After all, think of how many times Present You has disappointed Past You.
I didn't come to this thread to feel these feels.
>>142662008
Just let me believe ok.
>>142662172
It is crazy how it goes both way, you are getting disappointed by your future and your past at once.
>>142662325
Be the person today, that your past and future will approve of.
>>142644729
Yeah, it's ridiculous. They've even got a bunch of chink young adult novels that aren't even related to anime in any form.
>>142652506
>it's a piece of shit because i can't contribute to the scraping raping the servers
>not just using the batato downloader (that is its literal name) which ignores everything and downloads whatever, whenever, and however much.
>>142664765
Just imagine how stable the servers were if there is no content at all on them! That would surely be the best solution for everything, right? No reason to provide content if it would put stress on the servers.
Also, it turned shit over the last couple of years. A few years ago it was pretty alright, but they had to add more and more unneeded bullshit. You even need an account at batoto now to be able to read all the uploaded chapters.
>>142654987
>Also someone made a mega link for those novels that got purged I could post it if someone wants it.
Yes please.
>>142665056
>You even need an account at batoto now to be able to read all the uploaded chapters.
Guess what? You need an account for madokami as well.
>>142665076
Not to upload.
>>142665121
If all you're using Madokami for is uploading, you're doing something wrong.
>>142665121
I was replying for reading, not uploading.
>>142665076
Yeah, but the difference between those two sites is:
One entire site is hidden behind the account in case of madokami, while you just can't see the fucking chapters in case of batoto.
>>142665190
>bloo bloo I need an account
Are you new to the internet? Take 5 seconds and make some mailinator fake account you faggot
>>142665076
Not really, I never make a account and I can see everything, you just need to think what a persons that never use IRC is going to do the first time he go to IRC
>>142665230
Okay, then explain to me the reason as to why you would just hide the chapters behind people not having an account?
You can access pretty much everything, even the forums no one gives a fuck about. But just to be able to see a fucking chapter you need to register?
There is absolutely no reason for this and it is pointless. In case of madokami I understand that making an account is needed and I have no problems with it, since the entire site is locked behind the account, but in case of bato.to it is just bullshit.
If you make a website for public use, let the public use it. If it isn't open, I don't care about it.
>>142665425
who cares if it takes like 3 seconds to make an account, good lord you lazy shit
>>142635582
Hello subjects. I added this to state.txt as well, reposting here:
In answer to the general categories of objection and panic we've gotten:
1. DON'T PANIC. We haven't deleted anything, and nothing will be deleted until we decide what to do with them, whether that's moving them elsewhere, or keeping them and revising policy.
2. This is the fifteen thousand, four hundred and ninety-ninth time we've had this discussion. Every human community ever has a point where somebody starts doing something not everybody likes, some rules are set up to prevent the class of issues, autists find loopholes in them, everybody has a good time with DRAMA and MISUNDERSTANDINGS for like a week, and then they carry on. exhentai and IRL porn, wikipedia and pokemon, 4chan and generals. I bet even the curators of the Library of Alexandria were dealing with this shit, shortly before Everything Was Fireā¢.
Thus, I've written some shitty rules, and I don't expect the 15500th time to be much different. The point is _not_ to exclude Horizon, LOGH, etc, but it _is_ to exclude Lord of the Rings, which I hope at least 99% of us agree on. Somewhere between those lies the One True Boundary Of Weebness. "non-light novels" approximates that at a glance. Any better suggestions of a similar brevity are welcome.
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>>142665494
3. The actual amount of bytes of whatever we choose to include is not well correlated to the total cost of inclusion. 4GB of non-light novels and 340 GB of raws is a relative pittance compared to the 3.3TB of translated stuff. The total cost is better correlated with the amount of semantically distinct objects, which is why I really want to avoid pulling in the all japanese literature on a whim.
4. I'm pretty happy about the boundary of Novels right now, and so seems the zeitgeist. I'm less certain about the Raws, for the reasons that have been cited. That being said, I personally don't want raws, so if anybody wants to step up and host them, please get in touch. If you bring the domain and server, I can help with the initial setup, data transfer, general sysadmin stuff, meme compliance, etc.
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>>142665425
It stops the scraper bots that don't have accounts. It apparently was a big enough deal that doing that relieved some of the strain on their servers.
>>142665332
>you just need to think what a persons that never use IRC is going to do the first time he go to IRC
I couldn't care less.
>>142661128
I love the idea. Doubt we any of us is going to get it off the ground.
>>142662322
How much did it cost and how many tera were transfered in a month?
$42/mo Technically $40, since they kept giving me $2 credit for paying in BTC.
I can't remember how much was transferred per month though. I didn't really pay too much attention to that metric.
>>142666456
>paying in BTC
Hrm
I might like to host some raw, if it is limited to tankoubon and artbook.
How much is needed to host one?
>>142661069
Get raw manga off Animebytes seriously.
The fact that jcafe and now Goddess has fallen is annoying as hell.
>>142666923
>needed
VPSes are cheap as hell. Like 32 USD a year cheap eg Ramnode. The only problem is blocking those retards trying to hack your server (and securing it) and making sure that you don't get DMCAs because they'll shut your shit down (especially servers located in the US like ramnode).
Dedicated servers are a bit more expensive. These are a popular one: kimsufi.com/us/en/
>>142665560
Figuring out how to automate Batoto scraping is trivial. Just send a post request and keep the cookie for subsequent pages. Hell, even circumventing their rate limiting mechanism is a cakewalk once you figure out how the direct image urls are created.
>>142651354
Like you, you mean?
>>142651682
Exactly
>>142653631
keep crying please.
>>142660336
Not the other anon, but I love you in a non homo way, Blue.
>>142660336
Not the other anon, but I love you in a totally homo way, Blue.
>>142661611
>manga cartel by myself
sounds dangerous and I like it
>>142638994
He's removing the raws section? Maybe he should delete the thousands of Kissmanga duplicates first, the fucking idiot.
>hurr why is my server doubling in size every few months
>>142637735
Most artbooks are on panda anyway, no need to have them in two places. But like >>142637789
said they'll probably be fine.
