it's over
>>286978267LOL
>some explicit loli hentai scanlations are still on mangadexCan this be used to seriously harm them?
>>286978362No because the minute they find out they'll just be deleted.
>>286978362>Things are shit so I want to make them shittier
>>286978362My understanding is that they're UK-based, and that hosting that sort of content is a big fucking no-no under UK law. So yeah, quite possibly.
>>286978267based, slay
>>286978267rest in piss
what do you guys use?
>>286978478https://github.com/Suwayomi/Suwayomi-Server
>>286978478Nothing because the most recent clones turned out to be ad rugpulls. I don't trust anything that forces popups.
What's up with payment processers and trying to control people via control over their cash flow? Seems a bit kosher... Well, I own what I own, and as soon as a good site pops up I dump everything for free. Fuck TPTB.
>>286978478Comix is the new alternative.
>>286978267It was over since the first purge, now they're just raping the corpse.
>>286978478nHi dont read things that aren't porn>>286978515Use Brave with uBlock Originthank me later
>>286978392Doing it out of spite is funny, plus MD is already worthless beyond believe
who fucking cares. Last time I went on there, 9 out of the 10 things I wanted to read weren't even available on there. It was the most inconsistent limited website I have ever seen.
>>286978478AI, nothing else comes close
>>286978625That's what I'm doing, but I don't trust sites like that anyway. Who knows what they'll do with any information you give them.
>>286978572The US government charges financial institutions for working with companies and individuals who make money doing things that are illegal in the US (think drug and human trafficking) things like ero loli and shota are in that grey area where they'd rather just not work with these websites.
>>286978515I mean, there's one that banned gook shit and doesn't have ads, and even allows porn unlike comix. It's the same guy who runs schale network so he doesn't give a shit about copyright.
>>286978675What?
>>286978675Thanks US government!
>>286978675It's actually specifically porn industry and human trafficking. All of it is so vaguely worded that credit card companies want nothing to do with NSFW, even in written form.>>286978695Weebdex is incomplete.We're just in that weird transition period where the big sites (Mangadex and Comik) are dead, a few grifter sites have sprung up, and the 'good' sites have catching up to do. It isn't hopeless, but it's not good.
>>286978767>Weebdex is incomplete.Still far better than comix by the sole reason that it isn't filled with fucking retards commenting shit.
>>286978267>>286978513when will we get something actually decent like nyaa for manga so i dont need 30 different extensions on suwayomi to cover my entire library
>monetizing pirated contentThat can't be legal.
>>286978834I didn't say it was worse. I said we're in a transition period. Maybe Weebdex gets better. Maybe a better site comes along. Who knows.
>>286978834why are you reading comments?
>>286978721Blame ISIS, I'm not kidding.>>286978767>All of it is so vaguely worded that credit card companies want nothing to do with NSFW, even in written form.pretty much this, when you add in the fact that porn has one of the highest chargeback rates, payment processors are more than happy when it comes to making these companies remove these products in exchange for their services. Then you add in media and social pressures from conservatives, and it just becomes an obvious result where loli, shota and incest works can't appear anywhere. Just look at porn sites and why they use "stepbro" instead of just "bro". Porn studios realized that adding in the step part decreases their chances of losing payment processing services.
>>286978478Nice try, kadokawa senpai.
>>286978844
>>286978267just fell to me knees seeing this
WeebDex satisfies my double page autism (the main reason I don't take part in most storytime threads). I'm looking forward to it growing for the next five years before the decline starts again.
I voted for this
>>286978267If you've been here for years and still can't read Japanese you only have yourself to blame
What exactly do they wanna charge you for? I still pipe with no issue.
>>286978750they are bankrupt and live on creditjust a matter of time... eventually the other shoe drops. they cant even afford the TSA burger flipper retards at the airports.
>>286978876The irony is GRRM and HBO can have a fantasy series where a main faction habitually commits incest for no real reason other than that's GRRM's fetish, the current trend in women's literature is beastiality rape, but don't you dare do that online or else.
>>286978974They're doing the crunchyroll thing, they'll remove all the pirated stuff in a couple of weeks/months, and then they'll start selling subscriptions.
>>286979031Subscriptions for what exactly? Pirated stuff is kinda all they got.
>>286978983censoring and scrubbing loli/shota from the internet has never been about justice, its about punishing people who enjoy that stuff.
>>286978478nyaa + OpenComic for completed series. Cubari for everything else.
weebdex needs a download button since it doesn't have a polite mangadex Downloader equivalent
>>286979031Nah, they're gonna go the Webtoons route. The irony is that niche is already filled, nobody wants another place to post their own original content.
>>286979064I don't use the site, but I've read in other threads that they're making original stuff. Or this >>286979085
>>286978478/a/ archives
>>286979080you need to be less gay and lazy
>>286978515ublock + pihole + firewall
>>286979105shhh
>>286979064The people who currently run dex own an OEM site. Presumably they're just gonna use the brand recognition to peddle OEM content.
>>286978844They're trying to do exactly what Crunchyroll did: charge for pirated content, tell major publishers that if they sign a contract with a high-traffic website then the biggest source of manga piracy disappears overnight, charge for legal content.Especially when it comes to white-collar crime, whether it's "legal" or not only matters if you end up in court. Businesses break laws every single day, and sometimes the victims recognize that what they're being strong-armed into might be more to their benefit than what they can accomplish using the legal system.
>>286979112or Brave web browser which has built in ad blockers
>>286979106why can I download hentai from the schale network but not regular manga?
>>286978267Its literally pirated content, how can they even monetize it???
>>286979079cubari is just an image viewer though, it doesn't really have anything, it depends on other sites.
>>286979138build in blocker are meaningless shit
>>286979079You posted these offset pages just to trigger me.
>>286979138>>286979112Or maybe don't use bad faith websites period. It's like saying "it's fine to fuck HIV ridden prostitutes so long as you wear a condom". No, don't fuck HIV ridden prostitutes to begin with.
>>286979158They are trying to flip it into being a legitimate company like crunchyroll only difference is they don’t have an army of defenders.
>>286979158Probably by contacting original owners and selling scanlations as legitimate.
>>286979103>making original stuffWho wants that? >>286979138Isn't the point of brave that the internal adblocker is pure shit since it's built around showing you whitelisted ads for a cent a day?
>>286979204>who wants that?Greed clouds out one's judgment.
Question, how much does it ACTUALLY cost to host/run a site like mangadex? Like, does it legit cost a lot and thus the jewery happens, or are they just being greedy faggots?
>>286979230Hosting can be quite fucking expensive, which is why everyone and their mother uses webp/avif to save on bandwidth and the metric fuck ton of HDD space you need over years of usage.Really comes down to how big you are, how much you many people you have to serve and images/videos you need to provide space for.
>>286979230the biggest cost is the infrastructure aka the servers and storage. After that i assume is just the electricity bill, internet bills and the domain rent. Considering they were living off donations it's probably not that easy but they're still greedy faggots.
Meh, I have enough of a backlog to last me until the next next big hub transition and can pretend to understand RAW so do your worst.>>286979230It's not cheap but it works for others. They did however went very big dumb after the first big outage and never readded RSS while bloating the main page to all hell which means a lot of people F5ing whole MBs needlessly to check for updates instead of simply recieving a 1kb ping on their RSS feed and that adds up fast.
>>286979230Hosting is super expensive now because you have to pay for not only the infastructure, not only the electricity and bandwidth, but also anti-bot and anti-DOS attack support. The old 'host your own website :^)' internet died a long time ago, and not just because of google and reddit.
>>286979230AIslop says over $1500 a month
>>286979138SAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR
>>286978267>people are STILL using mangadexI hate normalfags so much dude.
>>286979421>usingNah I just download from it. I don't use the site any further than my feed page.
>>286979421Nice try, not telling you where to get manga
>>286979421there is no real alternative that doesn't require you use 10+ different websites full of ads for all your series.
>>286979421What normalfags are you talking to that use Mangadex? It's not a normalfag thing.
>>286978625Oh hey I've masturbated to that before.
>>286979421This.
>>286978695>>286978767Weebdex is still missing the Medalist scanlation that was deleted from mangadex. I still haven't found a single website that has it.>>286978834Why do you care about comments? How does that affect your experience?
>>286978267Just use other sites for your hentai, you dumbass
>>286979372>but also anti-bot and anti-DOS attack supportWhich is necessary not only because of actual attacks (which are absurdly commonplace), but because megacorporations are either actively malicious or completely incompetent. Facebook's scraper has been known 10-15 years to get stuck downloading the same large file to completion thousands of times for days on end, costing random small websites terabytes of bandwidth. It still happens today. A lot of open source git repos have been getting absolutely hammered by AI companies in the last 2 years.There was also the time that twitter ddosed a bunch of twitter mirrors at the same time, when there were still a lot of them.
>>286979581NTA but why do you NEED comments? Its just pointless fucking bloat
>>286979581It may never have it. This is the problem when big websites go down and /a/ has the mindset of "who cares, my side of the ship isn't sinking". When Mangadex had its big purge, we should have actually archived shit. Instead we relied on Comick, and that folded shortly after and now we'll just have this hole of certain scans don't exist anymore, or someone is hoarding and not sharing.
>>286979631Every site has to be a social network in the current year.
>>286979630>Facebook's scraper has been known 10-15 years to get stuck downloading the same large file to completion thousands of times for days on end, costing random small websites terabytes of bandwidth. It still happens today. A lot of open source git repos have been getting absolutely hammered by AI companies in the last 2 years.Im a techlet retard, how does a facebook scraper/AI stuff cost other websites miney?
>>286979515it was a wholesome fap
the golden age of the internet is overyou'll be lucky if they even make PCs by 2040
How long would it take someone to DL everything on mangadex? Asking for a friend thats really sick of loosing swatchs of shir every few years
>>286979698People hosting sites or renting any servers for that matter pay for data out. For example, Amazon charges about $0.09 per gigabyte (the pricing is tiered, but as an example). If someone downloads 1gb from your site 1000 times, that costs $90. Big companies with big internet pipelines can completely saturate your server and spend your money very fast. There's almost never any recourse, you'd better set a billing alert so you can wake up in the middle of the night and take your site offline until you get the scraper blocked.
>>286979833If they deprive people it unpacifies the masses and the forces that be suddenly have to deal with a non-distracted populace
>>286979698Imagine you want to get water out of a well. In order to do that, you need to pay someone to take a bucket full of water, hoisted out of the well, and deliver it to whoever is in line. This man charges 2 cents.At first, all is good. A few hundred people line up to get water out of your well. This costs you a few dollars.Later, corporations want to have as much water from everyone's wells as possible. They do this constantly, at all times. Hundreds of requests per hour. Then thousands.It is no longer a few dollars each day, it is hundreds of dollars for no reason other than water hoarders.
>>286979866Oh. That fucking blows. How has there been nothing to stop... never mind. Lobbying bullshit Im sure.Thanks anon, cheers
>>286979837>everythingImpossible. Just download what you want and pray the next site down the line somehow manages to inherit Dex's archives as they inherited Batoto's.
>>286979882I see. Is there no way to stop this outright other than identifying scrapers and blocking them manually?
>>286979866i remember when i made a Final Fantasy VI fanpage on angelfire, then geocities. shit was so easy then.glad i lost all my ambition, this world is too gay to fathom.
>>286978478I've been using google for like 25 years, never failed me.
>>286979942>impossibleWhy? Storage issues? Assume my friend is a millionaire
>>286979995Yes but paying your jeet slave 3 cents more to program it from the very beginning is considered a waste of money :^)
>>286979833If the big companies just stop making PCs and parts for PCs I would fully expect at some point an amateur PC building community to form. We'd be back to the early days of computer like when Apple and Microsoft formed. Maybe they'd try to make it fully illegal, but I don't know how they would justify that.
>>286979372Strange, my 10$ VPS is doing well for occasional http serving.>>286979400Didn't pomf and catbox spend less?
>>286980071When in doubt:>Think of the children!!!
>>286978842most completed series are already on nyaathere'll never be a download aggregate for ongoing series, goddess used to be that place but nobody kept up with uploads for it
>>286979871The masses don't even know hot to use computers silly, only the aging nerd population and people who need it for work know how to use them.Phones are a more effective and widespread pacifier.
>>286980069...even me as a techlet retard can see the advantage of this, what the fuck.
>>286979837From the description of the first dekai manga archive on Nyaa:>+ 11 scrapers worked 24/7 for ~43 days to scrape all the mangas from MangaDex using their public APIThis was in 2020, for 5TB total. I imagine nowadays it's probably at least 15-20TB if not more, so with the same speeds that would take several monthsThey're still not done with the new archive and it's been at least 6 months, though granted they said they've already finished downloading, it's just that they do more than that, i.e. indexing and making tools around it
>>286980022Dex has rate limits. Very generous, but limits still. You would need many pcs in parallel in different IPs working 24/7.Also, philosophically, sturgeon law applies twice. 90% of series are shit, and 90% of scanlations are shit. It's just not worth it unless you plan to be the next big hub.
Mangadex is based, the related tab means I can just see which other go nagai manga his manga references instead of trying to decipher what's a reference in violence jack and what isn't. Same with cyborg 009 and that whole star system.
>>286980132Hopefully the new archive has Medalist
>>286979372>anti-bot and anti-DOS attack supportDo you realise that it's free? Cloudflare is a honeypot. The biggest cost is going to cloud and amazon and friends will hoover up all your money. VPS are extremely cheap in comparison.
>>286980132Does that make sense? I'd imagine it had a relatively complete archive in 2020, so only new stuff would add to it.
>>286979581you realise that mangafire scraped all of mangadex before it got dmca'd right? use the extension for the tachiyomi clones before you lose it forever
>>286980182I see. But it could be done if you had enough money/time.>Also, philosophically, sturgeon law applies twice. 90% of series are shit, and 90% of scanlations are shit. It's just not worth it unless you plan to be the next big hub.My friend is more interested in having the choice via preservation and is fully aware that the bulk is likely shit.
>>286978876>Then you add in media and social pressures from conservativesSad thing is that it isn't just from conservatives these days.
>>286980132>mangas
>>286979138ublock is orders of magnitude more powerful than any built in browser adblocker. you should just disable the inbuilt adblocker and use ublock only.>>286979230i haven't paid attention to the anime/manga scene for at least 5 years but even back then it was fairly widely known that the mangadex staff wanted to go legit if the opportunity arose. i don't necessarily blame them, since running a website that isn't your job is basically like doing another full time job for free. with that being said, it sucks for the users
>mfw migrated to that other 'dex
>>286980450 (me)i should have said "ublock origin," since "ublock" by itself is not the right project. it's a long story but only use ublock origin or ublock origin lite (if you're on chrom(e|ium)
>>286978267It's only the beginning
>>286980410Then why do they only have the official release?
>>286980503anon you do know that getting untranslated manga is way more difficult than pirated scanlations right? unless you're rich and have a lot of money to waste, but if that were the case you wouldn't even be in this thread right now.
>>286980560Right, because raws are unobtainable online.
>>286980607For many older manga, it's a lot harder to find raws online
>>286978478comix
>>286979995It's complicated. You can block known scrapers that properly identify themselves with a name, but you can't know what random shit might show up one day when a new ai startup starts mining data. Scrapers might maliciously pretend to be a normal user to avoid your filtering. You can implement per-IP rate limiting, but they'll probably scrape using multiple IPs. Someone experienced with this would be able to configure things so they're a lot less susceptible than many people are, but there's always a chance of something happening that they just have to react to quickly.
>>286980607Readable raws yes they are very hard to come by unless you actually buy them.That's why most if not all scanlation groups buy the series they work on.
>>286980560There is more than enough. Catch up with shit that gets free official updates like FUZ or the millions of "the latest 2 chapters are free :^]" services.Or focus on finished shit. You can also diversify your hobbies.
>>286980384You'd only need the new stuff, yes, but I don't think the library simply doubled since 2020, it probably grew exponentially, so it's several times larger now. Shaving off 5TB of the work likely doesn't help that much
>>286979631comment sare necessary because people dont like translating for literally nothing at all with no feedback or discussion about what they're translatingwhen hombre brought down mangadex and it came back but without comments, a lot of escalators didn't bother and wanted to wait till comments came back because really not much point otherwise
>>286980537looks like that one is truly gone, I can't even find it on AB or goddess.
desu since the first mangadex purge I pretty much gave up on reading ongoing series
Why do we still have mangadex shit threads spam? It's dead for like a year.
>>286980688This. As someone who did some a literally no comment series while working on a yes comments series because of sheer love of the work, the difference in enthusiasm was palpable.
>>286980841because so long as everywhere else serve you compressed slop it's still the most alive thing
>>286978267USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX >USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX >USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX >USE WEEBDEX USE WEEBDEX
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/mangadex-development-update-march-2026.2584220/Supposedly they are adding them for "compliance information," at least according to a post an admin made last week. Not that it makes it any better of course.>New comments system will be paywalled
>>286980841Because it's not nearly close to death you dumbo? Yes some got purged, and some scanlators stopped or left the site, some to dead wannabees others to good alternatives, but it's still the place where 90% of scans go. Even for some of the purged series like Watamote because the purge was mostly a one day nothingburger that went mostly unpoliced by the admins.
>>286980884It's not. Just go to mangadex to talk about your shit site.
>>286980966>God bless Dex-chan
>>286980966>New comments system will be paywalledGood, maybe /u/ will stop being so dead. A shame they are dexies but better than nothing. We can mold them.
>>286978267i already deleted my account and switched like a year ago. If you still use this reddit infested dex thats on you
>>286981075You can't mold an influx of retards that vastly outnumbers you, but good luck regardless.
>>286978478weebcentral
>>286981075>A shame they are dexiesReally? What happened to Dynasty Scans?
>>286980966wait they're paywalling comments? that's lame, I always smile when people comment on chapters I upload
>>286981176Stop uploading there.
>>286980966I barely use the social features, so they are scrapping the forums? As in, the little bubble by the chapter name? Why?I thought it was for that infinite scroll feed shit they added front and center.
>>286980841It's not dead yet but it is a sinking ship
>>286981212there's nowhere else to upload. I have a cubari repo but that's it.
>>286980966Wait, so its just paywalling comments? Eh, I dont look at that shit anyway so it doesnt affect me
>>286981157You need to be in the right place at the right time to gain admin privs or pray one of the admins decide to check the upload requests for a change.I wasn't really drilled on how the system works when let in, but whenever I check the admin requests page is just add/remove tags shit, so I assume upload requests are done at a higher level.
>>286980966>paywalled commentsThat is straight up malicious
I don't suppose any of the alternative sites have a way to ingest Mangadex library data, do they?
>>286981239Upload to /a/
>>286981386It's so incompetent, as you can just go somewhere else to discuss it, I fear it's just an excuse to paywall more and more after it fails.Great now even I'm turning into a doomer.
>>286981176Temporarily as they switch to the new system before letting everyone use it. The new one also sounds worse, and I think a deleted chapter will now delete any comments unlike before.
>>286978631it's the worst and I hate reading anything on it. I only use it to search for new things
>>286981456/a/ doesn't care
>>286981226From what I understand, they are making a new (paywalled) social platform and then rebasing the comments system on top of that. I'm guessing it will be the same system Namicomi uses which will look like picrel. Supposedly they are "looking into" migrating old comments to it but since the old/new comments systems run different software it might not be possible. Like >>286981504 said it's supposed to be temporary, but when people pressed for an ETA they danced around the bush and said "when they are ready"
>>286981577>literally not!xhitter (formerly shitter)breh
>>286980966I would guess that working to expand your website to make it more profitable and include paywalls while continuing to host entirely infringing manga with the disclaimer "but they haven't DMCA'd us yet" and having some kind of official presence seems like a great way to end up sued. Especially when any discovery would probably bring up countless discussion about how everything is copyright infringement.
>>286980960cringe
>>286981822based you mean
>>286981822go back
>>286981822incredibly based
>>286981822Stop parasiting on Japanese sites you fucking gooks. If you're soooo greeeeeat make you're own site.
>>286981822GOOKS BTFO
>>286981822holy fucking based, I will now use this site
>>286981822And nothing of value was lost.
Is madokami still alive? Haven't used that site in fucking years.
>>286981918If you mean "can I enter"? Yes.If you mean "can I use it as I would a real hosting site"? Then no lmao.
>>286981456Storytiming manga on /a/ is a nightmare. The interface is shit for it. I don't know how people have the patience to dump entire volumes at a time.
>>286981918It's mostly for official rips (it just mirrors everything from Nyaa), though some compilations of fan TLs are also uploaded from other sourcesI find it more useful for older stuff that's harder to find
>>286981918It's a good archive of official rips but you won't find most scanlations there at all.
>>286981998It's because they are paying for a pass to have captcha less posts (or paying for a captcha service) and using 4chan-x to mass upload.
>>286980960No, stop shilling your s>>286981822Apologies, I spoke too soon
>>286981822This is just self-preservation. More aggregate sites need to do exactly this. And I'm saying that as someone who LIKES gookshit.
>>286978392it's already deadjust put it out its misery
>>286981822>only new titlesThey almost got it right.
>>286982280>t. didn't bother reading the whole thingIt explicitly states that titles already uploaded to the site would be removed as well, retard. Entry and all.
I just need my oneshot...
>>286982318He shouldn't have chosen such a misleading heading then.
where do scanlators upload nowadays? looked at my list and so many groups have been inactive for months, granted it's the usual but i would like to believe that they aren't using dex anymore.
>>286982405It would have taken all of 60 seconds to read that. People who only read headlines are dumb as fuck. That's (You), by the way.
>>286980960>There's like four or five decent sites left, as long as no retard spreads them around, makes them well known, and therefore gets them reported>Because that's what happened to the other 20 top sites that have been killed in the past year>as long as no one is RETARDED enough to openly spread the sites around as much as possible and alert the flaggots to them>Oh look what we have here, a total retard, doing the exact same thing that killed every other manga site in the past year>Batoto was killed only two months ago because this exact mindset of retards "Passing around this as the new site"
>>286982431From what I gather from the /u/ and /au/ threads, as they are kinda the only threads who recopilate links, the only sites with public uploading are Dex, Dynasty (if yuri or yuri-adjacent and the stars align) or weebdex (chinese toilet paper).
>>286982431https://everythingmoe.com/section/mangaThere are several sites attempting to fill the void. Where things end up even a year from now is very much up in the air. Especially since not all of those sites are actually conducive to scanlators uploading their own shit.
>>286982500People who waste their precious time on reading irrelevant internet posts are dumb as fuck. That's (You), by the way, who keeps wasting time by responding to me. And me, but you dragged me down.
>>286982723>I'm only retarded because someone else on the internet made me act retardedConcession accepted. Have a nice day.
>>286978267didnt they get 420_hacked_xxx a couple of years ago? why would anyone trust them with bank info
>>286982785You'll have an easier time finding a service that didn't get 420_hacked_xxx in the last 5 years matey
>muh commentsthe absolute state of /a/just open a thread you double retard that's what the shinkatard has been doing for over a decade
>>286978267I just opened it up and it's working fine. Have I been using a fake version this whole time?
>>286978842Mangafire
>Monetizing someone elses pirated work>You can KINDA get away with it when its free, but when its monetized....Did they really think this through?
>>286982852We need more overall discusion threads like the yuri ones. There is not enough space in the catalog for that.
>>286982750Oh, you only wanted to win an internet argument. Sure, celebrate your win, but you're still retarded.
>>286982898they are obviously going to nuke all the scans they want to shift to some webcomic westoid oc model
>>286982956Please do continue to extol the virtues of not wasting your time reading pointless internet posts here in this cesspool of pointless internet posts. Given that you're so much better than the people who do so, and all.
>>286979185>they don’t have an army of defenders.Are you sure about that?
>>286983060People defend it as the main hub for the last decade. Noone will defend them if they nuke all the Manga from MANGAdex.
>>286983060I don't think manga readers who have spent years being shafted by publishing companies refusing to bring their works overseas, as well as by the corporations that pump out terrible translations of the ones that actually do get picked up, are anywhere near as willing to eat shit as the anime-onlyfags who happily hand their money over to Crunchyroll.
>>286983087i think as many people will defend them and say "based i love supporting american manga localizers and in this new era i hope you'll make it easier than ever" as did when crunchyroll did the same thing. what exactly do you think the difference is between the two situations?
>>286983117They will once the ecelebs start shilling.
>>286983055I already said that you dragged me down. Yes, I'm stupid too for entertaining a retard like you.
>>286982532Your favorite website won't get any scanlator interested in uploading on it if they don't know about it in the first place. It needs to be popular enough to reach many of themAlso you're retarded if you think the copyright holders don't know about them already. They didn't suddenly learn about Batoto 2 months ago and decided to kill it, letting the site run for some time can actually be intentional sometimes to gather evidence and collect traffic. The admin shot himself in the foot and made it easy for them in this caseSites like WeebDex, WeebCentral, Comix and many more are all featured on popular wikis like Wotaku with regular updates, and this is the most surface thing anyone would check. Whatever site you don't want "them" to discover they know about already, they just either don't care enough yet or are keeping a close eye on it. You seriously think they don't know about WeebCentral when it's been one of the biggest sites for years? They do, it's just that the admin is seemingly more competent at protecting himself and he doesn't give a shit about DMCA notices
>>286983153>what exactly do you think the difference is between the two situations?First, there are alternative sites. When Batoto died, there basically weren't, and yes the hobbie survived and even flourished. This time there are. Which will win? Who knows. Traffic issues? Sure. It will work out easier than last time, with the better formats and all.Second, fansubbing anime is a different kind of beast to scanlating. It was also handled by like 2 or 3 groups who were mostly happy to not have to do it anymore. Also, if you go actually check out things that were fanlated, you'll quickly see that they were no paragons of quality as the narrative claims. Yes the subs moved and were colorful on the intros, but they were as filled with mistakes as a modern simulpub, just without the agenda.Meanwhile, there are hundreds of active scanlation groups that don't have any issues changing what URL they upload to.
>>286978954XD
>>286978478>he doesn't know
>>286983285Really it is more normalfags finding out about it that's the problem. The corporations aren't dumb, normalfags however are.
>centralized aggregatorsThe whole culture is flawed.
>>286983407>worked flawlessly with only 1 or 2 minor hiccups for 25 years>flawedNah
reading manga was a mistake
>>286980071They don't even have to justify it. See today's legislation banning routers in America, wtf
>>286979158crunchyroll started like that too
So what do I do if I want to move my MangaDex follows and stuff to something that's going to still exist in a year?
>>286983843You can export from Mangadex and save everything locally.https://github.com/MarvNC/mangadex-list-exporter
>>286983843Someone might make a script depending on technical details, but the default answer is you don't, that's called vendor lock-in.
>>286983843You have time to post on 4chan, don't you? Use that time to go through your list and follow shit on another site. Even if you've got hundreds of follows, you'll get it done eventually.
>>286983843Use a site that doesn't post copyrighted content. People scoff at using shit like MAL but then keep needing to move their manga list in a hurry every few years when one of these sites goes down.
>>286983946I've used https://malsync.moe/ and trackers in tachi with MAL ever since the first site I used went down abruptly
>>286979085they already own namicomi for original stuff
