https://weebdex.org/announcements/ezk0ynb0hz
>>287234859>Purge Korean titles>immediately diesLike a poetry
keklmao faggot bit off more than he could chew when he thought he could host a manga site.Good riddance.
>>287234859lolscanlation scene is MEGA DEADno hub = no means of effective distribution = no merit = no more releases
>putting your mangas in a streamlmao
1 chapter on mangadex4 chapters on weebdexand now weebdex is deadthe scanlator will simply stop translatingit's over
>>287234875Manwha is the savior of the industry. Nobody wants to read shitty manga anymore. The clicks come from Manwha
>>287234859y tho
Haven’t used it much, but that’s unfortunate.
It's all so tiresome.
>>287234875>host koreanslop>get terminated by gooksyou just cant win
>>287234859Yeah, websites usually have ads for a reason...
>comick murdered>weebdex murdered>mangadex sold outSo there's no actual usable ad free reader now, correct? I just have to use garbage like mangabuddy fuck my chungus life
It's literally impossible for NPCs to do anything other then ducktape together servers infra and try to copy ad business model, huh.
>>287234931Now there's only 4841 other manga sites left...
>>287234957Who gives a fuck whether it's add-free or not? Only subhumans would read on the website itself. Better that is has adds, actually, so it's not a complete financial dead duck. Back to reddshit with you.
>>287234859What're the chances mangadex is behind them shutting down?
I'm taking the pills and slowly transitioning into anime/cartoon only
>>287234859>p2plets btfo>trannylators btfolol, lmao
Yep, that's it. I have to learn japanese and become a paypig to read manga.FUCK MY CHUD LIFE
>>287234969And where do scanlators upload to?
>>287234969and where do scanlators upload their translation? their own blog? good luck following every single one of them. you wouldn't even know if things get translated. it's also difficult for aggregators to know and scrap from hundreds of scanlation websites/private channels
>>287234969>5 chapters here, 2 chapters there>1 chapter out of the 15 which were translated, the other 14 nowhere to be found>image quality so bad Stevie Wonder would cringe
>>287234970extremely brown post
the koreans have taught the japs the art of taking down piracy websites. in the end, it's all manhwafags fault for hosting manhwa in manga websites. fucking parasites.
>>287234991>good luck following every single one of them. you wouldn't even know if things get translated.I don't need to. Eventually they get uploaded to the most popular aggregators by others. That and knowing 3 languages makes it pretty easy.It's only a problem if you're in a hurry to read the latest chapter, but I learned to be patient back then when anime episodes took weeks to translate
>>287234923>i just found out about thisDid they ever explain why they just decided to upload their stuff there not on mdex?
>>287234994>gets called out for being a newfaggot who does cancerous shit like read online and probably doesn't have an archive>"y-you're brown!"Cool story, bro.
>>287235014because mangadex is very vulnerable now with random takedowns from publishers. Baki Rahen also uploaded to weebdex only.
notice how he didnt deny being brown lol
>>287234859oh fuck off
>>287234859Dammit, i just read some Gundam manga over there
It is simply not worth the effort to read manga anymore. No I will not pay for it
THIS is the future of scanlation: private channels.
>>287234859For fucks sake!Another one bites the dust.
>>287235033It would only take few more minutes if they also continued uploading to mdex though
>>287235048same. I've been reading less and less manga recently, using raw aggregator sites. sometimes after I watch a seasonal anime, I try to find the tankobon manga, but often they don't get ripped, so I just give up and lose interest in a few weeks. It's tough being a poor 3rd worlder. I don't have much spare money to buy manga since living expense is expensive and I have other hobbies as well. manga is simply not my priority.
>>287235075>>287235048You could just pirate official manga releases until a new big scanlation site is up.
finding translated manga is so hard nowadays.I didn't even know Mii-chan was being translated until after I've read all the raw chapters.
>>287235050Time is a flat circle
>>287234859oh come on
>>287235048I only read finished manga.No, axed ones dont count
>>287235088I'm using an aggregator for english official releases like JUMP manga. but most manga I'm interested are niche. they don't get translated (fan/official) and the raws don't get ripped. I have to buy them if I want to read them, but I have other priorities. I used to have Bookwalker subscription for monthly magazines, but I eventually got tired of it. following monthly magazine releases is exhausting.
>>287235010I often find that even popular aggregators are missing many titles or chapters. Even when you think they have every chapter, you suddenly end up with missing extra chapters which you don't even know you skipped, or older versions with mistakes or censored pages. Not having one single hub for scanlators to use is bad.
>>287234859holy fuck I have to migrate stuff again
>>287235139yeah, even weebcentral (formerly mangasee, pic related) are missing so many titles. Scanlation scene is simply too fragmented now.
are you all ready to pay for patreon to read your paywalled scanlation?
/a/ will revive from this. Trust the plan
>>287234970
>>287235071>>287235014
>>287235195Nah, I won't do that. I'm reading more books from now on and I'll just read the few dozen official Eng manga that I'm interested in. I might start watching anime again too if I need to fill in the time with something relaxing.
>>287235195Report every paywalling, donation-begging SEAnigger group to Patreon or Paypal or whatever they use, it's the only way they'll learn
>>287235210If you want to call going against long standing board culture (which exists for a reason, online reading is vastly inferior to reading on a tablet or downloaded onto a laptop) being brown then go ahead, but you'll only expose yourself. It's like saying you stream your anime and post on a phone.
>>287235139If one aggregator starts to miss chapters, you can find a different one? >Not having one single hub for scanlators You're being dishonest here. We were talking about being the experience of a reader. Suddenly you switched to the experience of a scanlator. They're different. Did you think no one would notice?
>>287235236>crab bucket mentality
Does anyone else feel /a/ is getting slower and slower, especially on weekend?I feel like everyone is losing interest in... everything.
>>287235292It's not just /a/ but the whole webstie getting slower and slower each day.
>>287235257>If one aggregator starts to miss chapters, you can find a different one?I'm telling you every single aggregator is like that you dummy. Also I'm not the one you initially replied to, stop being autistic.
>>287235292Where are they all going?
>>287234859didn't you tards tell me to switch over to weebdex
>>287235333Twitter I assumeImageboard culture in general is dying
>>287235266What, are you going to pretend that they're just ambitious young entrepreneurs or something? They use MTL to pump out their unholy ESL shit because they can make a living off of it in their third world shitholes. Allowing them to continue means more of their poor quality slop flooding the internet.
>try to move weebdex list to weebcentral>literally half of my follows is missing>it's not even localized manga
>>287235347How do you discuss on twitter or do you just go to (insert thing's page/profile) and comment on whatever with other people doing the same? I have never used twitter or really even checked it out.
>>287235303You replied to an anon talking about his experience as a reader. Why do you reply to say that his experience as a reader actually sucks because of your experience as an uploader? Are you retarded? Nobody cares lol.
>>287235333being depressed and doomscrolling twitter to check updates on the crumbling economy and geopolitics, I guess... the future is looking grim, dude...
weebcentral it is, then.
>>287235363You don't. you just doomscroll. as I said before, everyone's losing interest in everything. Despair triumph over Hope.
>>287235374Not him but the lack of a single scanlator hub is how you end up with incomplete aggregators, and it doesn't take a genius to realise that
>>287235374Not having a scanlator hub obviously ties into awful reader experience. Damn are you actually autistic?
>>287235377One of the better aggregators, but still missing a bunch of shit.
>we need your support - April 3rd>EOS - April 4thFucking grimHas hosting servers just skyrocketed in cost lately or something?
>>287235417i dunno if it's still like that but admin used to be sole uploader, so that'd need changing for it to became THE main hub, if it hasn't already
How long has weebdex even been up? Cant even be a year.
How many manga pirate sites are there? I hear a new one every week.
>>287234991>and where do scanlators upload their translation?4chan
>>287235436>Has hosting servers just skyrocketed in cost lately or something?cheaper than ever
>>287235436The servers are powered by diesel generators
>>287235436there are THOUSANDS of manga and a lot of pages are uncompressed and the website runs with no ads. it's unsustainable.
>>287235468>4channo one clicked my dump thread>nyaapic related
>>287235408>having to move to a different site now and then>awfulIt's not "oh my god I'm literally dying over this aieeee" awful. It's literally a minor inconvenience.You're either doomposting or you have an agenda. If you're this worried about manga, use torrents or some shit.>are you actually autistic?Non-autistic people don't fret over having to move to a different site. :)You clearly have a pro-centralization agenda or some shit. Now that I've pointed this out, my job here is done. You tire me. I'm out.
>>287235500There's no site to move onto. All of them are missing on a ton of shit.
>>287235500>Non-autistic people don't fret over having to move to a different site. :)Yes they do you fucking retard. Moving 500 bookmarks is just a giant pain in the ass.
>>287235499>no one clicked my dump threadproofs?
>>287235500Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Time to make our own site, with blackjack and hookers. We can call it MangaDicks. I'll make the logo!
>>287235472How did Mangadex get away with no ads?
What's stopping you from reading raw faggots?
I really do not know why pirates nowadays would rather spend all their hard earned neetbux on hosting instead of distributing through torrents, which is lower cost and no chance of a dmca taking it down.Do they make enough money from advertising to justify it?
>>2872355521. goodwill donation2. sold itself to a corporation (namicomi)
>>287235154Well, mangasee used to only host official translations. And now with weebdex, they are intentionally being picky about which scanlations are deemed high-quality enough for their site.
>>287235564Not enough seeders.
>>287235559money. raws ain't free. most of them, like 95% of them don't get ripped at all. popular magazines do, but individual manga tankobon don't.
>>287235564Seeders and file quantity issues.Do you want to seed thousands of manga chapters 24/7?
>>287235587>individual manga tankobon don'tI fucking hate it when those raw sites try to sell us compiled mag chapters as tanks.
>>287235580>weebdexweebcentral*
>>287235559the japanese, actually
>>287234859LMAOIt existed just long enough to make everyone hopeful it would work as a replacement for Mangadex as it headed down its route of obvious profiteering, only to die before the site even really got started.
>>287235564Nyaa is the only /a/ torrent site anyone knows these days and they stopped giving out upload perms years ago so anyone who wants to put their work up has to get in contact with an established uploader.Most people aren't going to go to that effort for the single digit number of people who bother to torrent their manga rather than reading online or scraping it from an aggregate.
>>287235154manga scene was fragmented to start it with having it centralized was a problem
>>287235646>(((visa and mastercard)))>the japanese
>>287235014I stopped putting stuff on mangadex because the site is obviously trying to become Fakku or Crunchyroll 2.0, and I had no interest in being a stepping stone to let that happen.
>>287235436Hosting has become slightly more expensive because of the AI menace.
>>287235666>AI killed Myrient tooTotal AI death
>>287234859It's just a matter of using different sites for your manga depending on where that manga's community chooses
>>287235681no hub site was made when Hombre killed MD.everyone simply waited and settled with imgur/cubari for temporary hostingscanlation is done.
sigh whats the next best translator hub now?
>>287235646Fuck off
>>287235700actually batoto was revived (again) around that time
>>287235666Satanic trips of truthHas AI enriched anyone's life other than tasteless coomers and jeets?
>>287235721No? around that time Batoto consisted only of yaoi/josei and indonesian scans
>>287235701There isn't one. Mangadex if you follow manga that haven't been dmca'd, i guess.
>>287234859Lame
>>287235730Ultra-rich tech investors.
>>287234923I noticed a couple series like this. Stuff i have read in what seemed like months updated all along but unknown to me because they don’t use any of the aggregators I check. Those series once again will vanish into the night (at least until the scanlators wise up and upload to more than one site)
>>287235033Groups should just ACCEPT that Dex should be treated as a glorified RSS. But if you put your stuff there it’s at least guaranteed to get scraped by most all commonly used aggregators
>>287235730you should've invested in stonks
.onion is still available.
>>287234859I also noticed that the Weebdex discord channel has disappeared from my subscriptions.Can anybody confirm if it's still online?
>>287235732Yeah? it was revived. Batoto had shut down the site for the second time before that, the site simply wasn't online.
>>287235822yea it's gone. I only have MD and Comick on my discord list.
>>287235010>Eventually they get uploaded to the most popular aggregators by othersThe popular series maybe. But good luck about the niche shit that only you and a few dozens of anons follow. I have uploaded over 1500 chapters of old manga to Mangadex that no one else bothered with. And you bet I'm not going to do it again, whatever the new aggregator is.
>>287235818>onion?
>>287234859oh for fuck sake, this is getting really bothersome. At the end I'll be left with maybe one manga to read, cause some of the titles on my already short list simply stopped getting updates between all the site problems.
>>287235580We do not need anymore AI translations by people who do not speak japanese or english
>>287235818Seriously, why aren't more manga sites considering using tor exclusively?
>>287235459plenty if you use a good adblocker, problem is it's all over the place and without lists so you gotta dig a bit for individual titles but the former you can at least keep locally>>287235659you'd be surprised about how anal nips can be about letting gaijins buy their shit
This one stings but not nearly as much as the exhentai, nhentai and hiromi extension foot tachiyomi being served a takedown. Oddly the exhentai extension still works but who knows how long that will be since a single site update may break it (no more updates possible as the extension is flagged as obsolete)
is madoka still getting updated?
>>287235901>loading uncompressed manga pages on torRetard
>>287235942We're starting to run out of alternatives, so I'd settle for that.What about i2p then?
>>287235901>swap page in uncompressed manga>wait 5 sec for images to loadunwieldy
we need- no non-manga- no non-english scanlation- forced x1600 image dimension- forced webp image type- ads, ads and adsfor maximum optimization
>>287235981Whats wrong with webp? I'm tech illiterate yes
>>287235918https://www.melonbooks.co.jp/special/b/0/service/overseas_en/Yeah they're so anal they have a whole special site to help gaijin buy their shit.
>>287235901You need hosting for that too.
>>287236002It would still be more resilient to DMCAs.
>scanlation scene dying before MD even pout out official simul-scansThis is going too fast. Fansubs stayed alive a couple of years after CR went official.Just how bad does 2026 intend to become?
>>287235993low file size. there's a reason nhentai is using that file type nowadays.
>>287234859The only manga sites that survive these days are the ones that rely on a paywall. Same for translations. Hobbyists are no longer able to carry the manga scene.
>When fan communities are reduced to mere capitalism
>>287236021In the eternally evergreen words of Hunter S. Thompson>The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.>That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folksNow he wasn't specifically talking about the death of scanlation in that essay, I still think about that quote a lot
i want to read my fucking manga in my fucking browser
>>287235925Not as much as I'd like Still pays to have access, though
For fucks sake.
>>287235925Still a great place to get official stuff.
>>287236097The oldest zoomers are like 25 to 28 now too so some of them even got to watch the world fall.
>>287236001Most pirates would never ever import, they just want free shit despite virtue signalling about not being able to buy to support the mangaka.
>>287235212>discordfaggots using my daughtermommywife patra for their credits pageGlad they're dead then!
>>287236097>Now he wasn't specifically talking about the death of scanlation in that essay, I still think about that quote a lotYes, it's called "the enshittification of everything"no, it's not just nostalgia. the present world IS worse in almost every aspect
How about a panda for regular manga? With the @home p2p thingy.
>>287236021Lots of official ones have started getting sneaky about shit too with stuff like being 4 chapters behind or coming out the week after. Red Ranger Isekai was even doing shit like wait for 4 or 5 chapters to come out.
>>287236001Meant more in a sense of not even wanting their works translated and localized.
This shit sucks.
>>287236315>shitty MTL paidslop website goes down>this shit sucksI truly mean this from the bottom of my heart. I hope you find some self respect one day.
>>287236345>paidslopretardbro...
>>287235363Algorithm picks up you're interested in thing and doomscrolling will make Xeets about thing pop in your timeline and you can reply on it. Not very good sadly but not that bad either.
>>287236167>>287236192nice, it barely gets mentioned (or it gets called dead), but somehow it keeps outliving all the alternatives
>>287236345You don't read manga and it shows.
>>287235701There isn’t one everyone is scattered and even scans are getting lost. Everything is become more expensive too.
>>287235701To replace weebdex I now have to use 3 different aggregators (5 if you count scanlator sites that only uploaded on weebdex)
>>287235154>>287235580They will be the next to fall and it will be the final nail in the coffin.
>>287236345it's a scanlation hub anon, there's not an awful lot of the aroundyou can talk about all the other aggregators all you want, but in the end they're all meaningless if the scanlators can't upload their work somewherefor mangadex it's not really talk about "if" it'll be gone or not, it's "when"
>>287236269This is true of stuff in general in a greater world sense then manga too. There is a lot of stuff even outside of Asian countries that just aren’t getting sent out anymore even from places like Europe which hasn’t been true since the rise of the Internet. The world is changing and we are seeing it in real time just a less important Industrial Revolution.
>>287236358Blue checkmark accounts feed you with ragebait and anything that boosts post engagement.They decay you slowly.
>mangadex gets raped>alt site immediately goes up>word gets around>immediately shuts downyou'd think people would have learned after all the doujin sites went down
>>287236446In this case the issue was monetary, so it was doomed to happen no matter what.
>>287234859Cut off one head and two more shall take its place, hail Hydra
>>287236461cant be that expensive to host, then again there's thousands of manga taking up lots of space and I imagine the retard running it keep filesizes low
>>287236483No hosting and general computer hardware physical or virtual has skyrocketed in price from everything using AI now and being more demanding
>>287236483It is expensive when crawler bots and DDoS attacks arrive on your doorstep. In some cases the host provider just terminates the site.
>>287236483It's expensive when big corpo use their AI to scrap your site. Also HDD price skyrocketing too.
>>287234991>good luck following every single one of them.That's what BakaUpdates is for.
>>287235993The underlying compression wasn't made of images but for video. Jpegxl is the vastly superior image standard.
>>287236483>I imagine the retard running it keep filesizes lowNah, same 10k*10k max 20MB per page 200MB overall any filetype retarded arbitrary Mangadex/Comick uses/used and retard prided ximself on not compressing.
>>287236553They're missing a ton of releases too lol
>>287236553Sadly it is not infallable, stuff is missed. But it's still pretty good. It's retarded that they don't allow a series update unless the group releasing has an official name and site/hub. That's part of why it misses releases. In the last year or two I've relied on it more than in the last nearly 10 years.
>>287236267They always did that, snipers would force them to release chapters by putting a fire on their ass.
>>287236553Baka has been terrible at tracking releases for years.
>>287235292Good. The less tourists and normalfags the better.Go take a look on non-anime boards and prove me wrong.
>>287236483>>287236564Aggregators compressing files is literally cancer because in one digital generation all that anyone can ever find are those compressed pages.
>lurk ends up being the most reliable source of manga over all these yearsNever expected that.
>>287236474You can't honestly still believe that.
>>287236512>>287236530This is why you need rate limits and IP bans. Everyone thinks they can make the next mangadex without realizing all the technical and business knowledge needed to keep the site running.
>>287236675>You can't honestly still believe that.Yes. It's been like this for years nothing new.
>>287236474ok unc
>>287234859Aw, that was quick. At least its sister projects are safe, r-right?>>287234991Mangaupdates and RSS exist.
>>287235701mangafire probably, which was previously mangasee i think
>>287236440Depends on your algorithm and whether you read the For You or Followed tab. You can get decent content but it's not an imageboard obviously.
...people still use separate sites instead of setting up a Suwayomi server?
>>287236675It is and always has been true.The quality of said heads, however, is a different story.
>>287236693Mangadex is a half rotten corpse and none of the replacements have managed to get off the ground before collapsing.
>>287236269That (a monopoly) is what publishers want. Stores just want to sell as much as they can and they'll gladly take dirty gaijin money. Melonbooks didn't stop using (((western payment processors))) for the lulz. Wherever conditions (((they))) gave melonbooks simply weren't worth what little gaijin money they were getting.
>>287236737Getting it to work is too much of a barrier, please understand.
>>287236626spill the beans please
>>287234859If weebcentral ever gets taken down, I will burn down Nep's house for caving in...
>>287236474>Cut off one head and two more shall take its place, hail Hydrathe issue is that the scanlators are quitting anon
>>287235993people use it for gay ass compressed images to save disk spaceand it still doesn't work with 4chan
>>287236737>A free and open source manga reader server that runs extensions built for Mihon (Tachiyomi).So you're still going to need to migrate manga from one site to another after they die? Just like you do with Mihon? Not seeing why this would help.
>>287236737The Suwayomi UI is kind of ugly
>>287236737You're still relying on good aggregators to run Suwayomi, or do you think those extension names are just for color? All it does it make it easier to aggregate the aggregators. Not change the need for quality sites. >>287236761 It honestly is an annoying finicky program. I don't know how Mihon can run so well on your cellphone, but Suwayomi needs to be massaged like prized Wagyu cattle to work on desktop and occasionally breaks even then. At this point I'm kinda thinking about running an android emulator with Mihon loaded through that, then keep messing with Suwayomi.
So what's the best way to save my library before the site gets dusted?
>>287234859Was this the one by the Schale guy?
>>287235149Same. I made bookmarks of past titles in Weebdex and now, I need to find other sites that have the manga I've read and bookmark them too.
>>287236564>>287236612Yeah, hosting in original quality somewhere is important. I would make an allowance for lossless conversion of B&W pages to 8-bit, if the scanslator was a retard and used 24/32-bit to store 256-color grayscale.
>>287236807>So you're still going to need to migrate manga from one site to another after they dieYou scan all your sources for the titles in your favourite list. No need to migrate.
>>287236845Yes.
>>287236876Would there be a way to autocheck that compression to keep color pages from getting crushed? Because I agree that is an issue. I've run into it making my own manga collection, where you have black and white pages that are like 8mb a piece because no one taught the scanner about bit depth.
I must ask: will there be Weebdex duplicates like what happened with Mangakakalot and Comick?
I think capitalism sucks!
>>287236935Weebdex was the duplicate, lol.
>>287234859What is weebdex?
>>287236737But is there a good way to migrate your stuff to Suwayomi? This would include the latest chapter read, otherwise you still need to do it manually.
>>287236958It has a migrate option but i never used it, so i have no idea what functionality it has. Try it yourself.
>>287236891>You scan all your sources for the titles in your favourite listThat's literally what people call migration. Also needs manual review because sometimes sources are missing chapters or the wrong title gets selected.
>>287234859>Its no longer financially sustainableNever was, the moment piracy starts being sustainable is the moment lawsuits starts happening. Why do you think people back then did it for clout and for the love of the game?>along with a few other factors and recent eventsProbably got his first lawsuit and got scared lol
>>287234859>at a point of time where jewish AI data centers have more manga scraped and hoarded than Japan itself >no true way to just get manga ethically without a fucking jewish middleman than just living in Japan as a nativeGod I fucking hate this planet.
>>287236942And one that, I now understand, was rushed (I consider this to be a lesson while mixing with what >>287235981: find a way for your site to earn money before setting it up). I mean, is it not possible for there to be duplicates of the duplicate?
Maybe the future is groups with their own websites and applications that can pull from them.Discord is gay.
>>287234859Ah shit, not again. I hate mangadex for bending the knees. They deleted Furuya Toru's Himeanole even though it's not licensed at all. Fuck them. https://mangadex.org/title/b2a10de0-914b-44c1-b4ad-b217fd5f36d7/himeanoleOn a related note, does anyone have Himeanole saved? I downloaded them before the purge using Mihon, but I'm not sure if I got the correct file size saved. I hope the translators would just reupload their releases on their blogs. This series is not uploaded on Madokami either.
>>287237104>Furuya Toru's HimeanoleWrong Furuya. The mangaka's forename is Minoru (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Furuya).
>>287234906torrent exist?
>>287237150seeders don't
>>287234859Just makes ads that any non-retard can block with an adblocker. There, problem solved.
>>287237144Oh yeah, you're rightGot it confused with Amuro's VA's name kek
>>287237150Few scanlators upload torrents of their releases.
I just upload to mangadex, all the aggregators scrap it every second so even if they DMCA more titles it will still be on dozen other sites
>>287234859This is what they get for not hosting Webtoons, that stuff makes way more money than manga
>>287236907It's also not helped when some put color watermarks on pages, or upscale already large raws to something even larger.
>>287236693>>287236746This is a false story to kill piracy, genuinely why are you falling for that obvious trap?
>>287237237They should just keep them in separate domains, then one can fund the other.
>>287237104You can still download it from Illuminati-Manga's IRC.
Just found Mangapill. They don't host scanlators, do they?
>>287237326Ah, I see. Thanks.
>>287237202Time to ramp that numbers up, then
Aw shit not again.Can we all agree that www has failed and move on to something better already?
>>287234859someone else could still rebuild the site since weebdex has shared their source code
>>287235993anything with bright colors will look fucked with webp, it forces low quality colors even at the 100% quality option. Even jpg from 1995 is better
>>287237513not a techfag so I unironically dont know what alternatives there are but Im curious
>>287237517is it on github?
>>287237517Weebdex discord? It’s gone on my end or did they do a mass ban and only a select few can access it?
I saw mangadot net being shilled, is it actually good? Can you upload your TL there?
>>287234991We survived for decades without an aggregator and just mangaupdates. It's only really over if /a/ is deleted considering it's one of the few dmca refuges
>>287235292Discord is the real cause. People self-segrate in their own bubbles.Also 4chan has becoming increasingly performative posting, trying to impress others rather than just discussing. Perfect example is Frieren threads being filled with clowns performing for some japanese guy who translates threads and makes a compilation video
>>287235564Because if you don't host it on a site somewhere no one reads your shit, who bothers with torrent for each new single chapter
>>287234859RIP. Everything good is dying
>>287237720I've always held the opinion that greentext screenshot threads silently fucking demolished legitimate posters on this siteHurf durf eat all the eggs, so tiresome.
I've noticed scanlations dying on Exhentai too. Less and less is being translated by fewer and fewer people.People are aging out of this hobby, and what is supposed to be the new blood either isn't sharing or uses AI to translate.
>>287237650On the surface there's ipfs, i2p, onion sites, then there's blockchain-based distribution that I don't know much about either, but if you really don't care about popularity and want to avoid normalfags there are syndication methods like bouncing broadcast messages inside DHT cloud.
>>287237767I think people are also tired of their hardwork just being ripped off by browns who just yoink and repost
>>287235901No ddos protection and you have to pay for servers still. It's suicidal.
>>287237720>4chan has becoming increasingly performative postingIt's so bad that people will post a thread on 4chan, see what generates the most replies, and then repost their own OP on Twitter so they can get engagement money there. 4chan is just Twitter's testing ground.
>>287237960Yeah, it's insane. Can't even shitpost in peace anymore it has to be a side hustleThis world becomes more nightmarish in new and interesting ways
>>287237767In my experience, panda is still getting as many tls/day as ever, it's just that the "rough translation" tag exploded.
>>287237767reckon there's not a lot of new blood either despite zoomers being raised on tablets and it's not even the case of them being tech illiterate either
>>287238023>despite zoomers being raised on tablets>despiteYou mean "because", right? You can't scanlate on tablel.
>>287237237The site was a money pit no matter what was on it. It had no ads and no other way to make money from visitors.
>>287234859Considering it's so arrupt, I wish they'd give a concrete answer.
>>287238023they dont even know what a rar or zip file is
>>287237037>Probably got his first lawsuit and got scared lolhe's been running schale network for years without issues so I doubt it's that. he probaly has proper opsec compared to that comick guy
>>287237216the writing is on the wall for mangadex anon, it'll be gone soon enough
>>287238003Yup, there's this ai site where all you need to do is upload the pics and the result is kinda okay i guess? So they have spammed the site with it now
>>287236474The hydra is tired too. At best we're going to get something like ScansPlease, which will rip all the official MTL chapters.
>>287238059>>287238063>>287238081Shit's weird.First he promised regular backups, torrent dumps, multiple mirrors etc.Then he quietly removed most of the promises from the site.And now this>sustainableas if it could ever hope to be.
>>287237650Passing floppies with manga on it to your bros.
>>287238129That's already operational, idk how much of it is automated though.
>>287237767yeah, veterans are quitting the service and new blood prefer not doing the service or paywalling them. the passion of humanity is lost already. this isn't only about scanlation, but every aspect of life.
>>287238136Probably bribed by MD
>>287238129yeah, tons of scanlators I've talked to seems to lose interest lately. I've only got a couple of projects I'm working on now and it's fine for me if I can just upload them to plebbit, /a/, and some random gay ass aggregator or cubari or something, but I can understand that others might just not bother anymore
>>287238129>At best we're going to get something like ScansPlease, which will rip all the official MTL chapters.we already have that, thankfully.for the rest of the manga, there's no other choice but learn jap yourself, but it's VERY costly since most raws aren't illegally uploaded.
>>287238153yeah, it's ridiculous how many people who seem to be interested in scanlation ask about how much they can earn. it's more the rule than the exception this day. it's sad really
So what, is the unofficial digitial manga scene just going to die a slow death like this? How much does it even cost to maintain a site with lots of separate mirrors? Streaming sites are everywhere with multiple mirrors and clones.
>>287238176I only translate twitter shorts nowadays >>287186714
>>287238196>but it's VERY costly since most raws aren't illegally uploaded.eh, you find most of them on places like 888dls, mangazip, and dl raws and similar. Other chore is that you have to click through tons of ads on the file downloaders, and they often have watermarks. But it still works.
>>287238202>So what, is the unofficial digitial manga scene just going to die a slow death like this? Unless server costs drop.Unless more young people start scanlating.Unless we start getting more organized about being decentralized (an odd concept, I know).Yes.
>>287234923>>287235784Just use comick.
>>287238136considering how fast word got around and how it shat all over MD I imagine he got some threats
>>287238200I'm not gonna be too uspet with them because most people looking into this were introduced to an internet that was just a race to monetize everything and not a community built around shared interests.
>>287238234It's back?
>>287238234Comick is just a tracker like Bakaupdates. if you click that chapter, it'd just do a google search for you.
>>287238215>dogshit retarded question OP to bait morons into replyingKill yourself.
>>287238265thanks for the reply
>muh torrentNigger, scanlation lives and dies by comments and e-peen.Why would anyone translate anything if there's no recognition to be had from it?>muh goodwillWell, I'm looking forward to seeing your non-mtl, non-AI translations of the highest quality.
>>287238223Honestly, I wouldn't mind resuming my nip studies and maybe giving scanlation a shot if there was at least a consistent spot or spots for all raws. It's crazy that no one with the motivation and means pops up for such a huge hobby.
>>287238237I still will be. I won't be upset to see some of those groups be shut down when paywalls of half a manga and starting new ones every few days keeps happening. Monetizing something people once did for free and was entirely their own work is one thing, but when it's only work done for something that's already a legal problem that's just stupid.
Exactly, but unlike bakaupdates it has all the up to date info
Comick all over again. Glad I never made any accounts with them. Mangadex is still in existence but it'll eventually become unusable. Thankfully I'm mostly reading in Japanese these days and using downloaded manga.
>>287238289You should post your shit on reddit instead. You'll get all the replies you've ever dreamed of.
I don't trust or like anyone that uses "weeb" instead of "weeaboo".
>>287238234Retard
>>287238234now click on those chapters bro
>>287238388*wapanese
>>287238388Unlike the non-use of '-fag' in 'normalfag', 'weeb' is just shorthand.
>>287238317yea, it is weird that people are complaining they're not able to properly monetize their piracy and rulebreaking. It's like they've lost all sense of common decency and common sense.Every time big piracy hammers drop in other spaces it's when the pirates start getting deluded, looking at the Emulation scene in particular since it's the vidya parallel of the scantalation scene.
>>287234859ok, i'll spoonfeed you "people" who refuse to check wotakucomix has both manga and koreanshitavoid kagane because it has (((drm)))you could've found the former through google search btw, unlike comick they're not dodging google search for some reason
>>287234859Stupid fucking retards think it's still the 10s and there will be another scanlator site, the world isn't what it used to be like
>>287238388Otaku.
>>287235620I mean, with scanlations you're often seeing magazine chapters too. I can't think of a single time I've seen scanlators redo their work with non-magazine chapters. Some like Bakkin (which is dead as far as I know) only used volume scans but wouldn't be up to date with new chapters. Without needing to translate it should be easier to release actual volumes but these people are likely working in the same way in that they're compiling magazine chapters before the volumes are out.
>>287238442>it's the vidya parallel of the scantalation scene.The equivalent is the cracking scene, and even that's pretty loose. Emulation has pretty much every title up to 6th gen available wherever you look and later stuff with little effort. The Ryuji situation was an exceedingly rare anomaly.
>>287238428Normie is the older version. Normalfag is the retarded r9k version.
>>287237650www means you have big daddy servers that posses all the good shit and slave clients that own nothing and are happy npcs. Weebdex is the big daddy server in this case and (You) are the cuck client. Alternatives are anything that doesn't work on the server-client (master-slave) model. Generally this means peer to peer networks of nodes that all contribute their share of resources.
>>287238728It's the other way round, newfag.
>>287238550The issue is that Comick is obviously not a good scanlator hub like Weebdex was set up to be. Its a giant dumping ground for official TL rips more than anything else.
>>287238677I've seen some translated ones being partly redone when there's something to uncensor, although those aren't always entire pages and you can tell when they just pasted some but not all of the changes onto the old page.Those raw sites that also have collected individual chapters are sometimes labelled in a way that identifies the different type, and they tend to be posted after the actual volume is out. I assume most of those sites are all getting them from some other identical source.
>>287238677some ecchi series have had it, like time stop hero
Just use cubari and post it on plebbit
>>287238742Normie dates back to the 60s and comes from hippies bitching about mainstream normies that were too square to get it, man. Normalfag was imageboard jargon created by bitchy autists on r9k
>>287238823>normie is from [origin has nothing to do with modern internet slang]>normalfag is from [4chan, I don't like the fact that it is from 4chan because I don't belong here]
>>287238677Time Stop Brave, whatever happened to the scanlation
>>287238873Being licensed was probably the reason for that stopping.
>>287238850>i get my entire vocabulary from the internet forum i use and nowhere else
Why you niggers not using madokami anyway?
>>287238897whatever happened to whoever was supposed to rip the official scans?
>>287238215you translate like a brown
>>287238753there's only a handful of aggregators to upload to now besides mangadexmangaball, mangago, mangataro, and dynasti reader according to everythingmoenot an awful lot and riddled with ads except dynasty reader, but that one's just for yuri
>>287238917Learn etymologies."Normalfag" comes from the fact 4chan calls everyone -fag to some degree. "Normie" came from people like you having a problem with the "-fag" suffix.Nobody gives a shit about "normie" from the sixties, it has no etymological connection.
>>287238922I don't know about that, but those haven't passed the unofficial ones yet.
>>287238920haven't used madokami in years and forgotten my user name. it was practically dead the last time I used it
>>287238966>being a white supremacist in 2026ok goy-kun
>>287238971fags and trannies forcing euphenisms of long time popular internet wordsyou're not even allowed to call people retards any more
>>287239035Retard is making a comeback actually
>>287239054ok retard
>>287238971There is a total connection, you retard. The term never stopped being used throughout the 70s into the 2000s. -fag was added to make the original sound more edgy and that is done all the time in board slang. Would you say that Shonenfag predates Shonen Fan because one was created on 4chan?
>>287239067See?
>>287239054Good, that one's too deep in my vernacular to easily weed out.
>>287239054retard coming back is infinitely preferable to calling everything autistic in terms of offending people.
>>287236747It also took a while for Mangadex to become a viable replacement to batoto when it died
>>287239069>-fag was added to make the original sound more edgyNo, it was made because everyone calls each other faggots here.Notice how it isn't "normiefag", it's "normalfag". Because "normalfag" is derived from "normal" + "faggot", not "normie (1960's)" + "faggot".
>>287239014how can one not look down on third-worlders in 2026?
>>287238742>>287238728Normalfag predates that whole board.
>>287239121And it was looking like Weebdex might replace it.Instead potential replacements are either being oneshotted by DMCA's, server costs, or both.One part of the problem maybe that anime and manga are just too popular. It used to be a smaller site could build up capacity, but now a new site is flooded all at once by people trying to escape the ruins of the previous site.
>>287235851I can google them I wasn't born yesterday
>>287239270Waste of time. If it’s not in my tachiyomi feed then I’m not bothering. I’d rather pay pig multiple apps (kmanga, manga +, manga up, comic walker) than go back to maintaining abajillion links to the the series I read (which is probably approaching 4 digits now)
>>287239252it's not really a biggie, you can just upload to plebbit, here, and some random aggregator like>>287238969>mangaball, mangago, mangataroand it will spread around by itselfit's not the end of the world, at least if it's popular and interesting enough to be spread around, but why would you be working on it if not
>>287239423>approaching 4 digitsbruh, your sturgeon love?
>>287236737I recently set it up, but there doesn't seem to be a function to mass migrate all your series from one source to another, which kind of sucks. The built-in migration feature still requires you to go through each series one by one. I checked the GitHub and someone requested it in 2023, but there seems to be no update on it...
>>287239468Could literally just put volume translations up on nyaa but then they wouldn't get their dicks stroked by retards who are too scared of a torrent
>>287237665It's gone gone.>>287238294Problem is, torrent is good for complete series.For ongoing ones, it's not doable.
>>287234859why is it never rich people who make these sites?
>>287239547registrations haven't been possible on nyaa for years anon. nobody is going to use nyaa
>>287239590Nyaa's not a private tracker retard
>>287239547Registrations are still closed and I don't want to suck cartel dick.
It's funny that it's easier to pirate officially translated manga over fan translations. You can find all American releases on Nyaa but not scanlation.
>>287239628Because those are actually worth torrenting despite weeb delusions.
>>287236737Is there good PC and android readers for Suwayomi? It feels kinda awkward to use the WebUI for everything
>>287235666Non-AI capacity is getting squeezed, where I am we're shunting our smaller clients onto even more crowded shared servers with less storage capacity because we're making room for AI accelerators.We cut about 1/3rd of traditional servers and replaced them with AI hardware. We're going back to the times of if you wanted to host a website, do it in your basement.
>>287239628It is the tried and true method to kill a sceneIt is why all BD releases are dual audio CR subs slop now
Are we going to have endless threads about this faggot website now?
>>287239791There's an option in the start menu to launch it through the electron app.
>>287239829No. Because it'll be dead in less than a week.
>>287239817Except not every manga gets put in one place officially. If things already fall through the cracks, I worry for the future.
>>287239572>Problem is, torrent is good for complete series.Step 1. Wait for series to be complete.Step 2. Torrent it.3. Profit. Done. Problem solved.
>>287239605holy fuck retard you need to register to uploadfucking asshat I swear to god
>>287237150>torrenting ongoing seriesSHIGGIDDY DIDDIGGY
>>287239882A lot of anime don't get official releases and no one cares. People still celebrate every time CR kills a fansub. A lot of LNs don't get official releases and no one cares. People still celebrate every time jnovel kills a translation project.A lot of manga don't get official releases and no one cares. People still celebrate every time 7seas kills an scanlation.You have been living in that future for decades now.
It's over bros...Now I'll have to make a discord server to dump my tls...Only a matter of time until Tanaka-san finds me...
>>287239975What about series like HxH, One Piece, Berserk and those that span years, where multiple groups take the torch one after the other?
>>287239975Why do you people even post if you have no idea what you're talking about, do you just get off on acting like a dismissive ass?
>>287237960>>28723799090% of 4chan post come from YouTube, Twitter or Reddit
>>287240185>A lot of anime don't get official releases and no one cares.New stuff? Like what?
>>287240325Its the beginning of the season, go check a chart and see what gets a simulcast.
>>287239816Is there any hope the AI hype is going to crash and burn?I've given up. Upper managers are retards you could sell any toy to. Politicians listen only to lobbyists. Normal people are so fucking retarded that soon they won't be able to do anything without having a LLM telling them how.
>>287234859>find out about Weebdex not too long ago>Mangadex alternative that actually hosts original quality uncompressed files unlike the myriad aggregators that downscale, compress and turn everything into webp cancer>even has almost the same features/database too>it also has several of the purged chapters and titles>scanlators that no longer upload to/are allowed in Mangadex continue there>site owner said to have good secOps and track record>in relief that I don't have to save everything in as much panic since there's a good site that shouldn't go down any time soon, in short notice and without plan B>wake up to thisGod fucking damn it all every single fucking time.No there's no alternatives, torrents are dead, so is Madokami, the minority of titles officially translated are paywalled with aids and Weebcentral only hosts compressed shit, and so called scanlators want you to go in their private Discord to farm tranny credit score in order to get downloads. All of this at the same time storage and hosting your own are no longer affordable."Learn Japanese" is not a thing either when you have to learn Chinese first and suck chink cock plus paying them too in order get non-total-shit raws nowadays, ironically the western scene gets (or used to) more quality file under better conditions.I wouldn't discard that the I-want-to-be-CR fags who are now friends with Visa and Mastercard had nothing to do with this. The same ones that nuke groups that are "competing" with them now.But the worst are the plants shilling here that none of this matters since "there will always be replacements and there are million sites anyway".I am guessing the admin is not even sharing the source code or backups, nothing? I see posts that they've deleted the communication channels, it's over isn't it.
>>287235646You can buy digital doujin on Fanza with VISA and Paypal. And on DLsite with dlpoint.net as an intermediary.
>>287238023Jesus fuck, the newer generations are so fucking illiterate when it comes to tech because they keep making their devices so that every brain-dead retard under the sun can use it. There are even retard trying to do scanlation on their fucking phones.
On the topic of translations>see sequel of super popular doujin>think about translating it but also think its bound to get translated due to the firsts popularity>wait a week>it gets a full mtl translation>it will never get another actual translation after thatIt's owari da for this hobby desu
>>287240615Even if it happens this time, it's inevitable something better will come out years or decades later and then there will be worse problems for hardware.
>>287240627>ironically the western scene gets (or used to) more quality file under better conditions.All scanlation files these days are ripped from official Japanese services, nobody scans paper books these days. Use the official Japanese services directly instead of pirate bullshit. Even if you are for some reason unwilling to pay you will still get a lot more to read for free than you'd ever get translated.
>>287238550>comixYou mean the site that, for some retarded reason, banned Japanese porn but not gook porn?
>>287240627>"Learn Japanese" is not a thing either when you have to learn Chinese first and suck chink cock plus paying them too in order get non-total-shit raws nowadays, ironically the western scene gets (or used to) more quality file under better conditions.https://djtguide.github.io/Genki 1https://files.catbox.moe/sronwq.zipGenki 2https://files.catbox.moe/mt4rtu.zipGenki teacherhttps://files.catbox.moe/hrnkdx.zipHiragana/Katakana/Kangxi radicals Anki decks and Yotsuba Learning Packhttps://files.catbox.moe/9x3me2.zipAnki 2k6khttps://mega.nz/folder/iZU2QL5R#2Xcqyk__-Qqa0YAwJh6M7Q
>>287240499I skimmed and found a few with no official source but it was mostly kodomo anime. The only one that caught my eye and fell through was Hyakki Yakoushou.
>>287240499Not every license has been announced at this point. Here's a list of series from last season that didn't get licensed in Germany. There were far more licensed shows that nobody cared about.
>>287240691>>think about translating>retard doesn't translate>only "thinks about translating">blames the machine for the ""problem"" that he's too lazy to translate itcan't make this up
>>287235436Did anyone screenshot what the "we need your support" page said?
>>287240691A big problem is shit eaters everywhere that won't even question the parts that make no sense, let alone the grammar, or when the pronoun is the wrong gender, or the million watermarks and extra credit/advertising pages inserted. Not to even mention the actual image quality, cleaning, editing and typesetting.
>>287234969And 4840 of them are shit.
>>287235469It's not.
>>287235730AI (machine learning) can be actually useful and cool technologies and tools, the issue are the people and mostly the corporations, especially the scam economy they've created around it and false promises that the LLM will evolve into an artificial god that will provide all the solutions for all problems if you just inject them with even more money and all the resources in the world, because then it will be "worth it".
>>287236345What the fuck are you on about?
>>287236737Where is your Suwayomi pulling its shit?
>>287236737>if you host your own the chapters will materialize in it on their ownReminds me of how younger people don't even know what files are, it's all "cloud" magic.
Learn Japanese
>>287240627>All of this at the same time storage and hosting your own are no longer affordable.How much does it even cost? And how much can you make with non-intrusive ads?
>>287241115Good point. It's not great. It would be appreciated if you translated it then->my mother is sick and I don't have enough patreon bucks that's why I won't translate it>popular artist doujin still untranslated Woww epic. The machine is to blame for our problems. Thanks translator.
>>287240901How about the part about accessing high quality raws? Nothing gets uploaded to Nyaa at all.>>287240738>nobody scans paper books these daysAnd that's another issue, digital quality in way too many official releases ranges from mediocre to dogshit, in purpose even. It's also fucking grim when you notice how many scanlators just AI upscale everything.
>>287241115Some obviously bad work even gets people thanking them and saying how good it is.
>>287241372>idiot fails to even comprehend a short post
>>287241431Prices have been going up lately due to AI and oil/gas prices going up, non-cancer ads don't like piracy sites, best way to fund it would be to ask for donations
>>287240691Most publishers have one or more sites/apps that let you read without paying.Volumes can be ridiculously cheap. Pay attention to campaigns and coupons and you end up with under 200 yen per volume, sometimes even less.
Is anyone working on scraping the site? Would suck for all of the exclusive chapters to be lost.
>>287241486>It's also fucking grim when you notice how many scanlators just AI upscale everything.It's often so pointless too when the result looks terrible. x925, maybe. x1600? Why do anything?
>>287236737yes and suwayomi magically creates chapters out of thin airfucking retard
>>287241516Well fuck then. The only solution at that point is a community effort that takes precautions against takedowns.
>>287241431>And how much can you make with non-intrusive ads?Little. Especially since a lot of companies don't wanna advertise on blatantly illegal websites.
>>287234859Deserved for deleteting content for no good reason
>>287240759>You mean the site that, for some retarded reason, banned Japanese porn but not gook porn?i didn't know about that, since i mostly use exhentai. that does sound absolutely retarded though, iirc even bato hosted hentai
>>287241532>apps>coins>DRM>temporary unlock>must buy individual chapters/series>can't save/preserve the things I pay forThese things are cancer.>campaigns>couponsLet the cattle never relax.You should always actually own the things you buy and pay for.
>>287241551The answer likely is no as always. The admin isn't cooperating either. This is why everything is wrong and only keeps getting worse.
we should go back to groups releasing on irc and aggregators being the ones to do the leg work
>>287240901>Anki 2kEveryone recommends that but I had a vastly better experience learning with "All in One Kanji" deck. Each kanji has a bunch of example vocab, just pay attention to that.
>>287241683>temporary unlockPerfectly fine if you don't spend money on that.You can rip from web sites and remove DRM if you seriously care about that. You fags don't buy the DRM-free content either.Just wait for GW or new year if you want the best deals.
>>287241587All the post was saying is that tying yourself down to a single source when a multi-source alternative is available is a moronic thing to do, you failure of a human being.
>>287241825And you fail to recognize that that has nothing to do with a solution to the actual problems being discussed in this thread, faggot.
how about ipfs ?
>>287241874Don't let me stop you.
>>287236737Retard.
>>287241747Wonderful. Guess I'll panic hoard whatever little I can in the whopping 3 days we have.
>>287240981You got a translation and I translate more obscure stuff, we both won clearlyEnjoy your saar approved translation
what was your first manga website your browsed anons? Mine was mangafox
>>287242026Can't remember.
>>287242026mangakiss my beloved
>>287242026Don't even remember, just looking up the series name online and seeing what I could find
>>287241803Some people will prefer it one way, some the other. 2k is more expandable with mined vocabulary. One card per kanji is going to limit your speed.
>>287235920Switch to yuzono cursed manga repository, it has the removed extensions along with an update for nhen, it works now.
pardon my retarded question, but can i use browser torrent clients like βTorrent with firefox's free browser vpn? it's got 50gb free/mo, and i'd like to cut my vpn subscription if possible
>>287242026onemanga
>>287242117>free vpn
>>287242026/rs/
>>287242026Onemanga my beloved. It was where everyone read the big three back in the days.
>>287235604I seed thousands of movies 24/7
>>287242155windscribe's free torrenting worked when i used it some years agothey no longer offer that though
>>287235292The sitewide downtime didn't help. Not particularly relevant but apparently mods were being paid to promote certain vtubing companies on /vt/. The entire board is at a fraction of what it was 6 months ago. They all ended up leaving to another site.
>>287242286Technically working and being secure/trustworthy are two different things anon.
>>287242307fairi mostly used it for hentai anyway, it wasn't enough to torrent most games
>>287242155I've been using free protonvpn for years.It just works.Kinda sucks that they removed the ability to choose country and you have to randomly change until you get the right country (which usually is either US or Japan), but I don't really need that function that often.Considering I mainly now only use it to upload releases and other illegal stuff it works perfectly fine for the job.
>>287242026Kissmanga.
>>287242435I like proton too but you have to pay to get p2p coverage.
>>287242435>they removed the ability to choose countryStill works with the GNU/Linux client.
...so what's the best way to setup a couple of hard drives?
>>287241878is it possible to do ? with a mangadex like ui and all ? i remember ipfs mirrors as ftp like only
>>287242575Probably start by putting them in a computer
>>287242026Gotlurk, the site with xdcc bot lists.If you mean online reading than idk probably one of the many groups using foolslide on top of their blog, back before batoto was accepted as primary distribution.
>>287242026Mangatraders.>>287242117Just get a proper vpn for $5 a month.
>>287234859oh great, now there is absolutely 0 chance the group will come backwell, it was pretty much over since the mangadex purge anyway i guess
>>287240691One of the biggest problems with translations have always been that most people have shit taste and will always watch/read the first version available regardless of quality, you are literally rewarded for doing a half assed job. MTL has made that even worse
>>287242575Define couple.Don't be that /g/ meme guy with 8 drives in raid zero.
>>287242026Can't remember, maybe something like stoptazmo or snoopycool. would you count those old MSN groups that had folders of various manga? Read manga at those kind of places first.
>>287242117>>287242743i tested it and it works, but i'll stick to my current setup
>>287239584they wouldnt be rich if they gave freebies to poors
>>287242292>They all ended up leaving to another site.And yet all of the altchans are still glacial
>>287242575Depends on what you want. I have a home server that's just a cheap mini PC I bought off ebay connected to two 24tb hard drives in a enclosure.
>>287242779that's honestly a good thing because then people will buy the official releases
>browser torrent clientHow does that even work? I thought torrents use UDP which browsers hate.
>>287242840As if.
>>287241137We need to go back to the Mangafox era, these kids have it too good.
>>287242891Good question, I get an option to open sites with what I think is a vpn using startpage and I have no idea what's up with that.
>>287242891I, for one, do not miss manually checking 87 gorillion irc channel bots with irregular updates.
>>287242927meant for >>287242879
>>287242891I honestly miss #lurk. Those times were far better than what we have now.Honestly there's also being far too much crap translated. Back then people translated the stuff that was somewhat good. Now even the kitchen sink gets translated. It's hard to keep up with stuff when there's so much other noise around.
>>287242879Assuming hes using webtorrent, it uses webrtc, the kicker is that it can't talk to regular bittorrent clients unless they directly add support so that makes it kinda useless
>>287243033Maybe libtorrent has support?
>>287242821Holotower is popping off.
>>287235014Mangadex is a sinking ship
>>287239069You are a normalfag tourist that needs to go back
>>287234859Wow, we are never getting our mangadex replacement
>>287242679Genius.>>287242793Is that a bad idea?>>28724283324TB seems a bit much for manga but maybe this is actually the best way.
>>287243254>Holotower is a Hololive and VTuber global community website where individuals can discuss Hololive and VTuber talent activities, livestreams, music and videos.I can smell the autism
>>287243254>vtumorsNo thanks
>>287236723No, weebcentral was previously mangasee
>>287236512"Anubis", an anti-scraper, exist.
2014 /a/ and /g/ would have been capable of creating and hosting a public replacement. Literally created madokami. First time nyaa went down, /g/ was in the process of creating its own replacement.
>>287242575>>287243470I'm gonna assume you're not super /g/fag status so just buy a regular ass consumer NAS and shove them in there, ugreen have recently gotten into that market and I've heard good things about theirs but it's probably spenny in this economy.
>>2872435384chan died post-hack so yea
>>287243538/g/'s nyaa replacement was a complete failure, there's a reason we only have the cartel nyaa today (unfortunately)
>>287235666>>287239816The AI bubble can't burst fast enough
>>287243482It was created a bit before the hack. It now has a million of posts.It's a chatroom disguised as an imageboard.
>>287243538Yes yes, old good new bad; conveniently forgetting that you are also part of that useless new that don't do anything.
>>287243470>Is that a bad idea?One of his drives died.>>287242679Depending on number of drives and use case entry level commercial off the shelf NAS may or may not be better value than custom built server, unless you happen to have all the parts just laying around.
>>287243560Yeah, but there was a genuine serious attempt that got backstabbed. This site isn't even capable ofakonh that attempt anymore
>>287243538Running a torrent tracker is way easier than hosting multiple terabytes of high res image files to thousands of visiters.
>>287243603So are fast boards here, like /v/, /pol/, /sp/ during some event, etc...
>>287234859I’m so tired. I’m so FUCKING tired.
>>287243606Because it's just objectively true. I don't do anything but I was a part of an era of /a/ that did so something
>>287243470>Is that a bad idea?Yes.
Dammit I have money. Who do I throw money at to keep something going?
>>287243538/g/ is absolute trash.
>>287243725Manga publishers.
>>287243538The /g/ Nyaa was fucking dogshit.
Honestly the COVID era of this board might have been the worst since it had the highest concentration of normalfag tourists, constant sharty raids but it was the most active this place has been since 2012-2014. If there was any time to leverage that into trying to recruit people to make/host some some sort of scanlation website outside of the early-mid 2010s, it was then
Most of 2010's was peak piracy comfiness, when you think about it.
>>287243725I guess mr weebdex himself atm.
>>287243761It wasn't great because it never got a chance
>>287243767The sense of community that led to people making projects like that is long gone.
>>287243767the traffic here has halved in four years, it used to be about 40k posts a day, now it's like 20khonestly I feel the only thing active here these days are the shueisha and kodanska shilling threads
>>287235977This will filter the speedreaders.
>>287236722>Aw, that was quick. At least its sister projects are safe, r-right?Should be. WD was just a side project after all.
>>287243790It had a chance and it was dogshit. The best thing that the /g/tards cobbling it together had at the end was "Nyaa.si sounds like Nazi".
>>287243770That was when I started getting seriously into it and became a regular here, and if the state of piracy back then had been what it is now I might never have stuck with it.
>>287243632Sure but I think a time ago this place was capable of that
>>287243725You can try to email the weebdex owner.
>>287243831Sorry I'm not going to spend any of my money making a piracy site.
>>287243823No it didn't lol. It was obviously sabotaged. I have no idea why we're doing revisionist history about this. What we got instead is something that has directly contributed to the destruction of piracy instead
how come /a/ isn't capable of coming together to organize anything productive, anymore?
>>287243800>it used to be about 40k posts a day, now it's like 20kGood, although it could do with halving again at leastThe modern internet is far too fast, back in my day weekly airing threads would last almost until the next episode aired
>>287243890>It was obviously sabotaged.>I have no idea why we're doing revisionist history about this.Oh, the irony.Please, do elaborate on this sabotage.
>>287243890nyaa.si has contributed to the destruction of piracy?
Almost everything I read is on nyaa already.
>>287240240>release big torrent "The Manga 1 - before The Hiatus">make another "The Manga after Hiatus" when the hiatus endsI'm just helping brainstorm bro
What's the usecase for a web-reader to upload scans anyway?Just have a big ftp server like madokami, write a tachiyomi/mihon plugin for your users, and let the scrapers scrape so the content reaches the browns too.All problems solved.
>>287243899That's wrong. Threads living for a week was unusual.
>>287243890Were you not there or something? It had plenty of honest chances and it was consistently unstable/slow/down
just use nyaa and the goddess all new manga suck
>>287243632What about a torrent tracker for manga
>>287243944It was very dependent. I remember a few discussion threads for a specific week's episode lasting a week or so.Now that'd be called a general.
>>287243974>goddesswhat's this?
>>287243890
>>287243798That's why a high level of activity can have some advantages, when you have that there's a higher chance of finding people who do care about that sort of project and you have a bigger user base to try and establish it off of >>287243800/a/ has never been the most active board, activity was artificially pumped during covid because of the amount of normalfag entryists. This place has managed to maintain its consistent 25-30k level of activity because it probably has the biggest concentration of oldfags who unironically believe in " you're here forever. " Look at /v/, it's averaging 50k posts daily now which is an insane reduction
>>287243988religion, don't get into it
>>287243470>24TB seems a bit much for manga but maybe this is actually the best way.I keep my Plex server and various backups of Youtube channels too, but yeah, for manga you could do with way less storage
>>287243767>>287243800>>287243899It is a real shame how hard activity has fallen off a cliff. I started using /a/ when I first got into anime in 2015-2016, so its weird sometimes to see how long a dead thread can waste away at the bottom of the catalog now, versus what I was used to.
>>287243915I mean I don't necessarily agree with him with /g/'s replacement not getting a fair shake but not allowing upload permissions for this long has obviously sapped general anime/manga piracy considerably
>>287243895It needs someone to start it. Why dont you do it?
>>287244080Nah, I'm the ideas guyI prefer to talk about how /a/ used to do things and how someone should really do something about it
>>287244049if you think this place is bad, you should see the manga subreddit. that place has fallen off a cliff the past few years
>>287244049All pewdiepie/election tourists should be hanged
>>287244067True, but on the other hand anything worthwhile posted on alternatives like nekobt or tokyotosho will get uploaded by someone there anyway.
>>287234859The rest of the schale network will still be fine, right?
>>287244049I came here in 2008, so fuck you retarded newfag tourist cancer faggot.
>>287244169I wouldn't bet money on it, but maybe.
>>287244049We're back at 07-09 levels of activity which I think is better than the covid era but this is also in the modern Internet so it's still very bad lol
>>287238388They're the same
>>287244177Wow, thats crazy. How is the hip and lower back doing, jiji? Dick still getting hard at you old age?
>>287244145well animetosho is also going down soon but you underestimate how bad the drawbacks of not allowing upload permissions on nyaa has been
>>287244177You were a few years too late.
>>287242026Onemanga.
>>287244169it's funded by ads so most likelywe don't know what "along with a few other factors and recent events" entails though. at least he's insuniating that it's not all the financial stuff
>>287243775>>287243862NTA, but for security reasons he wont take donations from random people. I asked him about it in the Discord server when it was still up.
>>287244207It's bad long term.You need a constant stream of new users to replace old users who leave or die (yes, die, people on the internet do die in real life). The problem is that 4chan doesn't provide much of anything to anyone anymore.>I want an imageboardTwitter feed.>I want discussionReddit or Twitter slapfights.>newsTwitter.>communityDiscord hugbox.4chan is dying not because of a specific boogieman, but because other sites are eating the site's niche. And ironically a lot of those sites are worse, like coherent discussion is impossible on Twitter and it is 99% nobodies screaming into the void hoping the algorithm picks them.
>>287244247Better than suicidal duck zoomers.>>287244271I know, it's sad.
>>287244284>along with a few other factors and recent eventsMight've gotten overwhelm with all the people WD brought in.
>>287244329>Better than suicidal duck zoomers.I guess age before beauty isn't all its quacked up to be.
20 year old tourists lamenting our "low" PPH is hilarious
>>287240691You can still translate it
>>287244328you know it's bad when you got blue checked twitter accounts reposting screenshots from 4chan. And then 4chan threads reposting the same twitter screenshots. post-hack 4chan is a mess
>>287244376That's basically an infinite engagement money glitch.
>>287244328>>news>Twitter.
>>287244376>blue checked twitter accountsThat just means someone poor paid the richest man on earth some money solely for the blue check mark, in hope for some more internet attention.
>>287244328>coherent discussion is impossible on Twitter and it is 99% nobodies screaming into the void hoping the algorithm picks them.I never thought twitter would take off because the concept seemed so stupid. I was about as right about it as Bill Gates was about the internet. Shows what I know.But even so, I still don't understand why people use that trash heap.
>>287244376>you know it's bad when you got blue checked twitter accounts reposting screenshots from 4chanI mean, R*dditors have been farming us for karma for years; that isnt anything new
>>287244302Is that why he removed the "we need your support" page.I'm guessing he changed his mind and thought no point of donations, due to security issues.
>>287244481It's good for what it was made for, allowing notable people like directors and artists to share stuff
>>287244481It's sad. Normalfags are cancer.
>>287244124The ideas guy is supposed to start it
>>287244302Just tell him to ask for donations in monero.
>>287244481Twitter took off because it centralized the concept of a personal blog, which was itself a holdover from Web 1.0 "do it yourself" websites.The purest form of twitter is posting what you had for lunch. Yes it is pointless and nobody cares, but that's the microblog concept. Now you have wannabe authors getting into political arguments to farm engagement so they can shill their book in the replies. It is a completely different beast from 2007, whatever you thought of the microblog concept.
>>287243560but it wasn't a failure because of the tech, it was just retarded freaks
>>287244438>>287244492blue checked accounts make money through post engagement. You have faggots like rocksolid making money by reposting your memes on twitter
>>2872443582026 /a/ has been an infinitely better daily board experience than 2020-2023 juiced covid era pph but you do lose some things with less activity. The bigger issue is /a/ is a husk in the sea of the current year internet.
>>287244533With it that bad in 2014, it has to look even worse now.
>>287244591>You have faggots like rocksolid making money by reposting your memes on twitterMost of them are probably brownoids making less than minimum wage in a real country though
>>287244583I knew authors used blogs to shill their books so that checks out.
>>287244635I'm still pissed at that faggot reposting my pokemon meme. He can go fuck himself
Don't worry the legend is here to save /a/.
>>287244635You can be assured that if they're in a poor country, they have a higher living standard than most people in that country by reposting your shitposts, all while you're afraid of losing your shitty job.
/a/ would instantly be better by banning all twitter screenshot threads and AI slop threads
>>287244376The head mod here does it so it's not surprising
>>287244848who
>>287244877Shitape aka RapeApe aka GrapeApe (latter the sanitized username on xitter).He's the parody of the low IQ xitter election tourist faggot who is brown himself.Buy a 4chan pass to fund his piece of shirt semi-NEET lifestyle! If you don't he'll become a fentanyl homeless living literally in shit.
>>287244583>The purest form of twitter is posting what you had for lunch. Yes it is pointless and nobody caresPretty much. It never should've gotten the relevance it gained, considering that's essentially what it is. But then it turned into world leaders announcing policy decisions on Twitter first thing. Fucking hell.
>>287244911Already ahead of ya
>>287244954>buying a passISHYGDDT
>>287244808/a/ would instantly be better if they implemented the captcha idea from april fools
>>287238971Coom was actually too much for normalfags that they came up with goon, because coom sounded too much like cum.
>>287244953People are dumber than your idealism allowed you to think.
>>287244954>>287244981xD
>>287245089But it wasn't THAT bad. Like MTL, at least the laziest most obvious pajeet-made ones were roasted in the comments not that long ago.
>>287240901The problem with Chinese scanlators is their hypocrisy. They beg for raws of hentai from English scanlators but never pay back the favor when they release their Chinese scans of hentai. Also, before getting banned by SadPanda, one Taiwanese scanner spent 2 to 3 years, watermarking raws with "Low Quality Scans" on every page.
>>287245175They banned that fag? Good.Taiwan and mainland Chinks are pretty different affairs though.
>>287244376When 4chan went down for like 2 weeks, those 4chan Twitter repost accounts started posting screenshots from places like 9 gag
>>287243024>Now even the kitchen sink gets translated.Maybe 10% of manga get translated and even less beyond snail's pace. And translators favor series that are easy to translate or have mass market appeal over those that are actually good.
>>287243024Josei and shoujo still get ignored by everybody, except the French. America only cares about shonen shit which is why it was controversial when Dark Horse CEO publicly joked about accidentally ghosting / ignoring an email from Shueisha, asking if they would be interested in licensing The Rose of Versailles many years ago. This is ironic considering the Berserk creator was a big fan of The Rose of Versailles.
>>287242794>stoptazmoMan we really have it good at the time
God just post a link to a donation bar or something. I got money to blow
>>287245175>one Taiwanese scanner spent 2 to 3 years, watermarking raws with "Low Quality Scans" on every page.That would've been glorious to see if it wasn't so annoying and disruptive. A literal multi-year meltdown over one comment.
>>287242794>>287245438I still have that bookmarked.
>>287243679If you didn't actually do anything yourself, you weren't part of the era, you just lived through it.
>>287245667Truth nuke
>>287244765?
>>287245667I don't know, I've been part of the community for 25 years and active on /a/ since 2006, but I didn't start scanlating until 2021.
>>287245778
>>287245898add comick and weebdex to the list
>>287246031I don't think they were around long enough to deserve their own entries. Maybe just a general "killed all potential mangadex replacements."
>>287246219as long as he's held responsible for killing the scanlation scene
>>287245898so much history in this picture
