Readcomiconline is seemingly dead from real this time. Its so fucking over man yes there are other sites but RCO was the main one and the best one
They've had up to like 2 weeks of blackouts before. It'll be fine.
>>154586953Stop fishing for the new site, Lawyerstein. You make this thread every day. Its transparent. We all know you're looking for your next target.
>>154586953>>154587198>from realilliterate esl
I assume they stopped paying for the server host. It went down RIGHT on the 1st so I assume it was just that they stopped paying to keep it up. Maybe they were getting pressured by legal or maybe rising costs just made it more trouble than it was worth. Or maybe a combination. Unfortunately there's no communication from the devs.
>>154586953everyone knows the cave is the new place to be.
mangahub.io is also deadI was reading Scott Pilgrim just 2 days ago on this site
>>154587333Unfortunately, it doesn't have nearly as large of a collective as RCO
>>154587352well there are other sites, one with barly anything on it and another one with 90% dead links.
>>154586953The lack of mirror sites is proof that piracy and discussion for comics/cartoons sucks in comparison to manga/anime.
>another carnac thinks he’s fighting the man thread
>>154587344Oh you didn’t miss much Scott pilgrim the comic is the worst version of Scott pilgrim.
>>154587599kys
>>154587333People keep shilling this, but it's garbage compared to RCO. I suppose it's better than nothing, but for now I'd rather wait and see if RCO is coming back.
>>154586953>but RCO was the main one and the best oneYou're such an idiot
>>154587793no im not
>>154586953>my mexican comicbook forms from 2008 is stil up after 18 years.AMAZING.
>>154587289Did you quote the wrong person? Or are you accusing them of samefaging?
>>154587793Yes, yes (you) are.
>>154587333Cave is shit because it doesn't have the absolute most common sense feature of showing new comics first.Like in RCO I can click on "DC" and and it will show me every DC comic, in the order of whichever was updated most recently. This is the ideal way to stay aware of what's out. Batshit can't do that.It's also lacking a lot of the rarer stuff but that's a secondary concern for me. The basic usability could be fixed in minutes of coding yet they don't bother to do it.
i usually used either Readcomicsonline or readcomiconline and one of them doesnt have the massive backlog that the other does and the one with the massive backlog is the one that is seemingly dead right now. readallcomics is ok too i guess but i dont know if it had as much as RCO does. ill have to try xoxocomics
>>154586953I wonder if someone will ever finish the Invincible storytime.
Cave is better because I can actually dl the comics
>>154588486>he doesnt use an app like mihon where you can read from all the sites in one single app and download from whichever you want
>>154588485It was already finished you retard
>>154588502>installing anything everEnjoy getting your shit hacked kiddo
>>154588534this nigga think its 1996
>>154587730The pacing sucks it works better in movie form or as a videogame. You know it’s true.
>>154586953niggas be making stock photos of anything
>>154588552kek
>>154586953The more threads you make about it, the longer it will stay down btw
>>154588540I wish
>>154588637I don't believe there's a causal connection there at all actually. I think you're trying to trick me.
I wish readcomicsonline included porn comics as well so I wouldn't have to go to two sites when I get horny from reading regular comics.
WHERE CAN I READ OR DOWNLOAD THE MAXIMORTAL? I feel really stupid for not saving it.
>>154588670>I wish readcomicsonline included porn comicsno
>>154588776That's okay. Sometimes we plant the oopsie daisies in our garden of life.
>>1545869531. What was their actual business plan.2. How come they got advertisers agreeing to have their adds put on a pirate website?3. How come they were allowed to exist for so long in the first place?
Well this sucks
>>154587793What's a better alternative then?
https://x.com/cloisblog/status/2074596432258986481/quotes
>>154589784readcomicsoffline
>>154589790
taihen da
Perhaps this will boost comic sales
>>154592401You're an idiot
>>154592663
>>154588784Retard.
>>154592663Yes, yes (you) are.
>>154588432But new comics suck
>>154593857I know, but I still want to know what they are.Without RCO I quite legitimately have no idea what comics are even printed these days.
Batcave has some issues but it's gonna have to do for now.
>>154594202>Without RCO I quite legitimately have no idea what comics are even printed these days.LOCG
Piracy discourse is fun because half of the things the people who support piracy sites are genuine concerns over accessibility and preservation and the other half of the things they say is outright laughable stupidity
>>154594605
>>154594597Come on. I'm not gonna use one site to look at comics and another site to read them. That's just nonsense.
>>154594700use getcomics then
>>154586953It'll be back
>>154594605>half of the things they say is outright laughable stupiditySuch as?
lolhttps://x.com/Rememberfright/status/2075670149189746986
>>154595235Honestly, I think this is the most accurate.I started out pirating everything, but I am now a customer, almost entirely for stuff I had previously pirated.
>>154595213For starters >Comics NEED piracy for the industry to continue The word of mouth boost attributed to piracy only applies to comics that never needed said boost to begin with to reach the bare minimum of 15k - 20k a month to continue.And that's for Marvel/DC titles, it's far lower for anything elseAbsolute Batman likely saw a sales boost thanks to the word of mouth from piracy but to attribute its success entirely thanks to it is asinine because Absolute Batman would've easily passed the cancelation line regardless.The people who are determining the industry's trends and what sells aren't made up of people from foreign countries reading comics online through piracy or people who learn these characters via TikTok videos, this outdated distribution system is largely fueled by speculators and geriatrics who remember what comics were like before the crash and actually know what a pull list is.The kind of people who buy Jeremy Adams books.If piracy is literally what keeps the industry afloat like these people claim it to be, how come the industry isn't better than it was before RCO and comics piracy in general took off?Secondly>This is the burning of the Library of AlexandriaNo it fucking isn'tAnything on RCO was already on other, broader piracy sitesAll RCO did was skip the downloading process, put their ugly watermarks on the pages, and collected ad revenue from people who used their site
>>154595308>The word of mouth boost attributed to piracy only applies to comics that never needed said boost to begin with Retarded claim with no evidence at all. That boost in fact applies to every comic that isn't shit. Shit comics are the only ones that don't benefit from piracy.
>>154595266Here's the thingForeign readers have zero influence on manga's sustainability At most they can support an industry of official translations (thingy your mileage may vary on the quality) for their language and the support trickles all the way back to the original creator but in no way, shape or form are they actually responsible for that manga even continuing or notForeigners have no influence over what manga magazines keep serialized no different from how a non-American has no influence over what run gets canned or not and really?It should stay that way
>>154595308>how come the industry isn't better than it was before RCO and comics piracy in general took off?Cause there are other things happening in the world. Most of them negative to comics. Death of newsstands dealt a blow to them that they might never recover from.Also it seems you think comic piracy is a recent thing. It's not. Comics piracy "took off" the moment internet became widespread.
>>154586953They removed hundreds of comments, reading those discussions were sometimes more entertaining than reading comics.Fuck them. Serves them right.
>>154587344Works on my machine.
>>154595355Tomoko case proves your claim wrong. That was a manga that literally was saved from cancellation directly because it became popular abroad.
>>15459532915k isn't a lot of people to begin withIf piracy is what drives sales, why isn't IDW Sonic a series with a crap ton of fan art, discussion, fan animations, fan dubs, etc the kind of attention most comics would KILL for doesn't even top monthly charts?>Shit comics are the only ones that don't benefit from piracyCondon's Green Arrow was considered the best run of the character in a long time and still got canned because it fell into the cancelation lineYou had people making online protests and actually thinking that'd work
>>154595376Imagine caring what other people think or say about anything.
>>154595404Citation neededI know it's popular more in the West than it is Japan to the point where the mangaka acknowledged it but to say that alone is what said it from being axed is hard to believe
>>154595357>Cause there are other things happening in the worldI wasn't that denying thatI'm just saying people like pic related are coping hard>Comics piracy "took off" the moment internet became widespread.I meant how there's been an observed amount of people in their 20's who have been using piracy sites circa covid
>>154595355Ehh, sustainability of the original property is a separate argument, I'm more talking about how the pirate can be a potential future customer.Pretty much all the physical media I own is stuff that I bought after pirating because I wanted to support the creators or just because I wanted to have a physical copy of my own.
>>154586953>dont pay for thing>dont get thing Problem?
I don't fuckin care i just want free shit.
>>154595635Find piracy sites lmao
>>154595376They didn't remove the comments. The comments were always run through Disqus who suddenly decided they were too good to allow their brand to be used by a piracy website.It sucks but it's not really their fault.
>>154595505No argument thereFundamentally no different than someone buying a book after reading it in the library
>>154595661*argument here
>>154586953Why? Even industry professionals and creators love it because publishers don't keep an archive
>>154595731>Even industry professionals and creators love itCase by case basis
I'm gonna miss that layout, RCO was the last of the "kiss" piracy sites (KissAnime, KissCartoon, etc.) and I always thought the layout for them was nice.
>>154595748Not really. Pretty much a necessary evil they know is useful
>>154595911You can find the creatives speaking out against it and telling people to buy their books
>>154595920They're not going to publicly say pirate
>>154586953>Marvel and DC haven't digitally restored all their comics from golden age to current day>actual comic book writers paid by these companies had to use pirate sites like readcomiconline to do research on characterscomics are a clown industry
>>154596131The post literally says you can find creators telling people NOT to pirate their books
>>154588502You still need a plugin to a site that works.Readcomicsonline went out of its way to kill compatibility with Tachiyomi & forks.
>>154596197Reread, anon
>>154586953Sad
>>154593857>But new comics suckOld comics sucked too. 99% of all comics released in the past were crap. It just feels like there are fewer good comics printed now because more comics have been released in the past 60 years than this month. But your argument is just not statistically true. I'm not arguing that the average quality of stories and art in current publications is better than all the comics released in, say, July 1986, but it's definitely not worse, it's about the same.
>>154587469That's mostly because the people running the anime sites are thirdies and their shit hole countries can't be bothered to track them down half the time. Only Americans give a damn about capeshit and we are much easier to target in our globohomo technocracy
>>154586953Honestly if it kills story time threads it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make
How are comic book fans in third-world countries, where neither the Big Two nor independent publishers sell licenses, supposed to read comics and follow their beloved characters, teams, writers, and authors now? Libgen and GetComics still exist, but they often lack high-quality scans and just don't have as extensive a library as RCO did. DC++ is dead, and private trackers are very restrictive, closed clubs that don't allow newcomers because they assume they are Disney/WB employees hunting down pirates.Speaking of American fans, this move will only further deepen the crisis the industry is facing. In the past, people could read, say, issues #1–16 of some ongoing, and if they liked the series, they could go to their LCS and buy issue #17 or collected editions containing these issues and the next ones. Now, some of them will stop reading comics altogether because it will be harder for them to find good new series to support. That's just how it is.Perhaps Disney and WB know what they're doing. Maybe the rumors about them licensing all their comics to Webtoon and Tapas and making them freemium are true. However, this lack of communication isn't helping.
>>154598213Retard.Storytime threads are the best threads on /co/, and they're the only reason most of us still come to this decaying board. We need more storytime threads, not fewer, instead of all those TADC threads created and bumped by shills and schizos, because sane person will deliberately watch that shit.
>>154598213storytime threads are the last tiny shred of culture this board has, everything else is shrieking about trannies
>>154598213>another retard who thinks RCO being down means no more storytime threadsThis drama only showed that the people who browse this board are completely clueless and don't know shit lmao
>>154595376>reading those discussions were sometimes more entertaining than reading comics.you are everything wrong with modern comic readers
>>154596285Readcomicsonline was working for me on mihon a few days ago this current outage is the only reason it stopped working
joever status?
>>154598238>people could read, say, issues #1–16 of some ongoing, and if they liked the series, they could go to their LCS and buy issue #17 or collected editionsCan confirm this is what happened with me. After reading a few Usagi Yojimbo storytimes here I bought collected editions at my LCS. Everytime something gets storytimed that looks interesting I'll read a few issues and buy it for my bookshelf. This is just me personally, but it does happen.
>>154588803>1. What was their actual business plan.Ads.>2. How come they got advertisers agreeing to have their adds put on a pirate website?You won't get the big sponsors with "bad" content (like porn or piracy) but plenty of advertisers don't give a fuck.>3. How come they were allowed to exist for so long in the first place?Nobody cares about comic books.
>>154598213You're right. Those three threads a week could've been more poorly disguised porn threads instead!
>>154595643I take back what I said in that case.>>154598324I said >>sometimes.It was always a worthy addition at least.Or a time saving warning.
>>154598213You're such an idiot holy fucking shit
>>154596131If they were pro-piracy, they'd outright not say anything
>>154598238The biggest loss is the collection of comics that weren't American capeshit but the French or Spanish oher European stuff that's much harder to find than anything by DC/Marvel/Disney
>>154599905NOTHING ON RCO WAS EXCLUSIVE TO IT
>>154599907Some of the scans uploaded to RCO came from websites and forums that have been defunct for almost a decade and no longer exist online. And yeah, this is especially true for BD stuff (bande dessinée, that is,not bondage&discipline), some of the scans were unique, and now you can only find Russian(!) pirate scanlations of them (most likely Russian scanlations of English scanlations of original BD) on a Russian website dedicated to French and Belgian BDs, but it's of no use if you don't know any Russian.
>>154600008I'm not convinced people would actually use RCO as a sole hub to upload that stuff when there are bigger, broader piracy sites out there that has comics RCO outright doesn't
>>154588637>The more threads you make about it, the longer it will stay down btwThat's not how it works buddy.
>>154599907YES! THERE ARE THINGS EXCLUSIVE TO IT.but not in the sense of 'no one is allowed them to upload them outside of RCO' but 'no one WILL upload them outside of RCO because of lazyness, lack of material (aka no one has a copy) or whatever'.whether you want to admit it or not: there is potential lost media created from RCOs death. and morons who defend said death for whatever reason deserve to die of gonorrhea and rot in hell.
well, my bookmarks are ruined...
>>154600173>YES! THERE ARE THINGS EXCLUSIVE TO IT.Sounds like a skill issueRCO was small potatoes and wasn't even a leading effort to get comics archived
>>154600059>I'm not convinced people would actually use RCO as a sole hub to upload that stuffOh, my man, you have no idea just how lazy and careless most of those uploaders are and how they're becoming more and more shortsighted as long as the status quo is preserved. Let me tell you this: around 90% of the content uploaded to RCO that hasn't been re-uploaded elsewhere else since then is pretty much lost forever. You won't find it on Cave, GetComics, Libgen, the Wayback Machine, or anywhere else. I say it as someone who actually used to scan and upload some comics and sketchbooks myself.
Maybe it’s actually for the best that RCO has been shut down? Maybe the era of piracy has come to an end, and it’s time for people to start buying print comics and other physical media, or renting digital copies through a paid subscription? Maybe copyright has triumphed this time? Five years from now, you most likely won't be able to find any pirated books, movies, TV shows, or music albums, you'll have to switch to official paid services like Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Webtoon and others, and any attempt to upload or download content obtained illegally will result in a fine or imprisonment.
>>154600457Dude I think the people pulling their hair over RCO are hilariously idiotic but you have to be even dumber to not see the detriment to piracy being eradicated
>>154600549I’m not saying that eradicating piracy is good or bad, I'm just asking: maybe it’s time for us to prepare for an era when all our online activity will be strictly monitored and logged, and when piracy could land you in jail - whether you’re a producer (posting content) or a consumer of pirated material. So perhaps it’s best to realize already that reading comics, watching movies, and listening to music FOR FREE was a privilege we’ve enjoyed for far too long, and now that privilege is gradually being taken away.
Is it next?
Hope it comes back in the next few weeks. It honestly has helped a ton on letting me decide what anthologies to buy since I like having a whole story or arc collected rather than individual issues
>>154600739It keeps saying to disable my add-blocker, but I have never had any.They recommend to use private mode to avoid this problem, but it's still there.
>>154600173>>154600202If you're so confident and care so much, I better see your ass archiving the stuff you know isn't on anywhere else if RCO does come back
>>154600457>Five years from now, you most likely won't be able to find any pirated books, movies, TV shows, or music albumsobvious bait is obvious
>>154600647We will forever have that privilege just like we had it before internet existed. It will just return to the form of swapping USB sticks hand to hand.
>>154601067lol shut up faggot
>>154600647>an era when all our online activity will be strictly monitored and logged, and when piracy could land you in jail - whether you’re a producer (posting content) or a consumer of pirated material.were already being monitored but there is no way in hell consumers of piracy will be targeted. harassed with things like isp letters/threat of Internet plan termination sure but put in court/jail? the big companies already realize that's retarded and expensive as hell with no real benefit even if they win. They want to go after the people uploading hosting and running the websites so those people may get harsher sentences but not us the downloaders
>>154601633>but there is no way in hell consumers of piracy will be targeted. harassed with things like isp letters/threat of Internet plan termination sure but put in court/jail?People have already been sent to jail for 2+ years in Europe for pirating movies, wake the fuck up! If you think the same thing will never happen in the Land of the Free, just wait until 2029, when one of the first executive orders signed by the new Democrat president will be some "Digital Security and Copyright Defense Act" that will be promoted as a way to stop AI companies from using copyrighted content to train their models, but in the end, it will only target consumers of pirated content.
>>154601728>People have already been sent to jail for 2+ years in Europe for pirating moviesproof?
>>154601728even AI agrees with me bro they're. It gonna go after the individual consoomer pirates, only the big fish so to speak:>As per the future of piracy, in the next two decades companies are unlikely to focus on mass lawsuits or criminal cases against ordinary downloaders, but they will keep pressure on large‑scale sharers, platforms, and infrastructure.>Historically, going after millions of individual users has been expensive, unpopular, and only modestly effective, which is why enforcement shifted toward big uploaders, site operators, and intermediaries (hosts, payment processors, etc.) rather than casual users. Individual consumers can still face civil or even criminal liability in many jurisdictions—especially if they share extensively, profit from piracy, or distribute pre‑release material—but that tends to be selective and exemplary rather than routine
What's stopping /co/ from making a comic archival site?
It has already went down before, multiple times, yet people crying about other sites lacking comics RCO had did not bother to archive the comics in question any time RCO did come back. Who's to blame for this?
>>154602056We tried
>>154601997>even AI agrees with me bro they'reAI will agree with anything you tell it as long as your prompt doesn't contain anything racist, antisemitic, transphobic, or homophobic. Asking it to make predictions is like asking politicians how much the economy of the city/region/country will grow annually once they take office; they'll always say 7.2% or more.
>>154602056>What's stopping /co/ from making a comic archival site?We're poor.>>154602069>It has already went down before, multiple times, yet people crying about other sites lacking comics RCO had did not bother to archive the comics in question any time RCO did come back. Who's to blame for this?Not us.Blame RCO for not putting more effort and more money into making more mirrors of their website and always relying on the same infrastructure.
>>154602165I don't believe you
>>154602321It was called Find-O you fucking brain dead newfaggot Summer piece of shit
>>154587289From real? Israel.
>>154602345Googling that shows nothing. I think you're lying, or talking about something worthless that never got past idea stage.
>>154602615You're such a fucking newfaggot JFC
>>154587198As much as a faggot as you are, trip fag, I think you're actually onto something here; Last thread talking about this someone mentioned the other site that also has cartoons and anime on it, and like an hour later the site went down for like three days.
>>154586953Just FYI for like $6/month you can read a good chunk of what’s on Comixology. Not everything but a lot of older stuff like Laird/Eastman TMNT and Vertigo
Eh. I already read the entirety of MFKZ I dont need it anyway.
>>154586953Is there any way to recover my bookmarks? I had a bunch of stuff I was planning on reading at some point in there.
I know most pirated comics come from dc++ but reading from websites is 100x easier for the masses. Hell even official manga rippers post directly to torrents which then get mirrored to madokami for ddl-ing. Pirating comics blows in general compared to manga so I will miss rco
>>154601040They've definitely upped the level of popups. I think they're trying to make the site unusable to throw off the heat.
>>1545953761. RCO didn't do shit. Disqus decided to shoot themselves in the head and stop providing support to piracy websites2. A lot of those discussions are the same thing you can get on /co/ right now. If it meant that much to you just make a thread after you're done reading.
>>154602945What I need is Franco Belgian comics and publishers, do they have Enki Bilal for example? Between that guy and maybe Moebius there's like 3 decades of stuff I'd like to read in engrish that I wouldn't mind paying for if they had more than just a single translation. Italian and Spanish comics are that way too, Italians have created some of the best Disney stuff and there's whole subgenres that lived and died in the 1970ies that would be as important as these better known UK artists.
>>154604216> popups.nigga are you still not using an adblocker
>>154604346I know the Incal and other Jodorowsky/Moebius books are on Comixology Unlimited (the subscription service that lets you read certain books for a flat monthly fee) but Bilal I’m not sure, I’m a pretty basic bitch who doesn’t have a lot of knowledge outside the men in tights wailing on each other.
first rarbg now this
I LOVE ESL TEARSI LOVE SEEING ESLS CRY AND OUT THEMSELVES
>>154605333>>154605444TRIPS CHECKED
bump
>>154602056Who's going to design the logo?
>>154607142A penis in the butt.
>>154602315>What's stopping /co/ from makingBeing /co/
>>154607142AI, of course!
>>154586953getcomics>
>>154586953just go to la mansión CRG
>>154604724I am >>154601040and I have never used add-blocker. I just block 3rd party cookies and trackers.
>>154587333I keep trying in my to make an account but literally nothing happens. "SMTP error cannot authenticate" and other bullshit.
>>154607142Here you go.
>>154610997not gay enough
>>154586953>Readcomiconline is seemingly dead from real this time. Oh noes!!
>>154586953Losing RCO means losing access to some obscure and older titles. I've also used it to quickly find pages from comics to post for a number of reasons. I've lost some good manga sites as well.
>>154611030
>>154609538>dead links galoreyeah fuck off
>>154586953
>>154586953RAC went down too and that was the better site by far even if they were leaching all their content. None of that page by page bullshit and you didn't need adblock just to use it.
>>154612799>None of that page by page bullshitYou could do full issues on RCO too. It was just a toggle option.
>>154612799>None of that page by page bullshit You could load an entire issue at once on RCO.>you didn't need adblock just to use itThese days, if you're using the internet at all without some kind of adblocker you're either a clueless boomer or there's something very wrong with you.
is it back yet?
>>154586953Is it just me or have these type of sites started to drop like flies this year?
>>154611910>Losing RCO means losing access to some obscure and older titlesLurk moar
>>154614107That's the thing. You wouldn't have to because most of it was there.
>>154614107rape victim behavior
>>154613891Yes, because after January 20, 2025, companies finally started to fight for their copyright. Piracy is going to be eradicated completely by 2028, mark my words.
>>154595376Qrd?
>>154598213Fed
>>154598257Not the best, probably second best. A proper live discussion is the best thing that can happen on this site, but they are rare.
>>154586953F
>>154614350Nah, piracy will always exist. Companies tried fighting music piracy back in the 2000s, and to this day it is still very much a thing.
>>154614350*2030
i usually use an app like tachiyomi and its alternatives. But lately ive been thinking about getting a tablet and downloading as much as i can so i dont have to rely on sites and that is exactly what i am gonna do after seeing this
>>154614309Skill issue bitchRCO was worthless
>>154616818>RCO was worthlesstake that back right now you faggot
Piracy discourse always gets me thinkingIf the majority of readers on Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok, aren't actually buying what group of people do they seriously think drives the sales and industry trends?Does nobody fucking stop and think how in spite of how much they dislike Ultimate Wolverine why that series repeatedly sold well and better than say, Ultimate X-Men which has the stronger following among global readers?Do zoomers who pirate comics actually think they have genuine say over how they should be written or what books get axed or not or that their tastes and opinions correlate to the people who actually have pull lists in Burgerland?Do they genuinely think ALL comics work on a page-rate basis?I once saw a post saying they blamed the decline of the ANAD legacies on the 2016 electiont. Pirate
>>154617304the companies dont care they will continue to make retarded decisions and when sales drop they will say its fans fault
>>154617304>>154617684The group that actually influences what the industry caters and reacts to is their core customer base of middle-aged men (who for the most part will buy anything). Anybody who's still buying singles at age 40-50+ will probably keep buying them until they're dead. The thing is, zoomers are certainly willing to pay for comics, it's just that they're overwhelmingly accustomed to not buying things directly and using digital subscriptions services instead (see webtoon and viz).The problem with all of this is that western comics sell individual chapters physically while eastern comics don't so marvel and dc would have to cannibalize their direct market income to capture the zoomer audience
fuck
>>154617304Depends, some books are both pirated AND get tons of sales (absolute rn, ultimate at its start, ect)
>>154619367so those books would have sold well regardless they only get pirated because they are selling. not every book has that advantage
