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AtheistMantis posted:Yeah, now that you mention it, what the heck is a batoto? Beartato?
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# ? Jan 20, 2018 22:48 |
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DrSunshine posted:Beartato?
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# ? Jan 20, 2018 22:52 |
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It's dead
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 12:58 |
I can't believe my friend, Batoto, is dead.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 13:06 |
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Good night, old friend.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 14:18 |
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It was a good run. Looks like Mangadex is very rapidly becoming its spiritual successor, though, at least in the short term.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:10 |
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Mirage posted:It was a good run. A lot of my follows were uploaded when the image servers were hosed up, so I'm hoping that gets sorted soon, but it seems pretty solid so far. Especially for being in its infancy.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:15 |
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*solemnly deletes bookmark*
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:30 |
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*closes 500 unread tabs*
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:33 |
Everything Burrito posted:*solemnly deletes bookmark* Just the one?! Sakurazuka posted:*closes 500 unread tabs*
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 16:49 |
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I had an account and follows wtf is with you guys and your tab insanity
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 17:12 |
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I left ch 1s of stuff i wanted to read eventually open. Took care of it last week.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 17:54 |
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Guess I'm never reading manga again
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 17:58 |
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Batoto is dead, and I'm not feeling too good myself.
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:09 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 18:35 |
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Pour a ramune for my nakama
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# ? Jan 23, 2018 23:18 |
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Site is officially dead and the Forums have been moved to Vatoto.com. Epoxy Bulletin posted:Pour a ramune for my nakama
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 15:29 |
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Wait, people liked Batoto? I preferred Kissmanga, lol. Better and faster loading theme/page, much better search (the auto complete is a godsend for Japanese titles), and the entire chapter in one page made it superior to most online readers (and like Batoto, it doesn't compress images).
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 18:45 |
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I don't know why I've never seen you but your name is awesome I love it so much. Also yeah, many people here (that I've seen talk about it) preferred batoto, and pretty much everyone involved in Scanlation preferred batoto. It was much more about the uploading bit though. Where do you think 99% of the chapters on kissmanga came from? Scanlators uploaded to batoto, and kissmanga just scraped images from batoto. Sure some sites didn't, and for some of those they had scrapers that would monitor rss feeds or w/e and automatically grab it and upload it. Some scanners also literally just didn't do anything except upload to batoto. It's much easier for kissmanga and the other for-profit sites to just monitor one place in lieu of hundreds of places. Once you take batoto away, there's a bit of a crisis for where people will get to read things easily and also where scanlators can upload things easily. E: i should specify, when I said "non-profit" I was really just lookong for a way to say "leecher" without saying it. I think I failed.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 18:53 |
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I like Batoto because it wasn't hosted in Russia, without pop-under ads and was infinitely less likely to be running cryptominers in the background.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 19:01 |
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Batoto also boasted uncompressed/unaltered images, which at least at the time it was launched was relatively uncommon. It was also usually organized better for selecting specific groups and apparently very user-friendly for scanlators to go in and update their releases. I mainly preferred them because kissmanga would inundate me with vicious popups even with adblock. Hell even clicking on empty space could induce popups. It was a site that required use of script-blocking software.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 19:06 |
I just got a script that would show all the pages of a chapter on one page and had no reason to leave batoto for kissmanga after that. well, except for series that got dmca'd on batoto
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 19:10 |
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While Kissmanga isn't bad, Batoto had a lot of conveniences for both users and scanlators that made it quite popular, as others have already noted in the thread. I primarily used Batoto since I found that it was more convenient to follow series I was reading there than elsewhere. The quality was also usually more consistent. For some series, though, I basically jumped to scanlator sites even prior to Batoto's closing. Also, Batoto was far safer and easier to browse than many other choices, including Kissmanga. At this point, though, I'd probably pay for an official sub-based reader service that tried to simulpub chapters like the Crunchy Reader, since waiting for volumes can be a drag, especially for weekly comics. That way I could stay current and then snap up the volume later. Optimally, though, it would also be more user friendly than the crunchy reader.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 19:21 |
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lol, just lol, if you don't run adblock + noscript on every single website including this one
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 19:27 |
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mangadex is nice and minimal but whatever tampermonkey or whatever script i've got to make manga load the entire chapter to scroll vertically doens't work for it yet
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 19:36 |
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Captain Invictus posted:lol, just lol, if you don't run adblock + noscript on every single website including this one lol if you use adblock + noscript instead of ublock + umatrix Umatrix is really good with a filter selector that is more flexible, more powerful, and much easier/more user-friendly to configure thanks to the matrix design.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:03 |
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:lol if you use adblock + noscript instead of ublock + umatrix
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:05 |
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Point still stands, anyone not using some form of script/adblock in this day and age is a moron!
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:17 |
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"It is good practice to utilize ad/script blockers in general for today's Internet" and "Literally do not visit this website under any circumstances without ad/script blockers" are not mutually exclusive statements, nor does it forgive the prevalence of malicious unwanted content in the the latter because why should one ever assume it will always stay behind the blockers as coders of such content evolve their own craft.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:22 |
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Nate RFB posted:I mainly preferred them because kissmanga would inundate me with vicious popups even with adblock. Hell even clicking on empty space could induce popups. It was a site that required use of script-blocking software. Kissmanga is so bad for this poo poo that sometimes I go click on something and uBlock just kills the tab. Nate RFB posted:"It is good practice to utilize ad/script blockers in general for today's Internet" and "Literally do not visit this website under any circumstances without ad/script blockers" are not mutually exclusive statements, nor does it forgive the prevalence of malicious unwanted content in the the latter because why should one ever assume it will always stay behind the blockers as coders of such content evolve their own craft.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:39 |
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Man your kumo AV is great. How have I never seen you people?
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:42 |
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im sad a lot of scanlators won't get the recognition they deserve, but happy that i won't have to put up with batoto's lovely site and giant READ ON BATOTO watermarks from elsewhere in conclusion batoto is a land of contrasts
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:43 |
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Yinlock posted:im sad a lot of scanlators won't get the recognition they deserve, but happy that i won't have to put up with batoto's lovely site and giant READ ON BATOTO watermarks from elsewhere Those watermarks were created by scanlators who just hate non-batoto manga sites, not by batoto itself. If Mangadex becomes the next Big Thing you'll just be seeing "KISSMANGA ARE THIEVES READ ON MANGADEX INSTEAD" on the same scanlators' releases that used to direct you to batoto.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 20:57 |
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:lol if you use adblock + noscript instead of ublock + umatrix lol if you use both when you can just use ublock origin in advanced mode and do the same thing
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:26 |
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Y'all say that stuff about doubling your johnnies every time but the point is that Batoto didn't try to do that poo poo and sites like Kissmanga does. Just because you can stop something from successfully happening doesn't excuse it in the first place
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 21:47 |
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"Hey, if you install half a dozen ad blockers and no-script extensions, this one site is actually usable!" And yeah, don't go blaming Batoto for the obnoxious pages that say "Don't read this anywhere but Batoto!" The scanlators did that themselves, mostly to shame idiots who are still using Mangafox.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 22:04 |
Best way to read manga anyway is lying in bed with a tablet app.
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# ? Jan 25, 2018 23:35 |
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I forget is Kissmanga is a scraper site or not. If so, I'd generally be against using it since Batoto at least made an effort to credit scanalators outside of the token credits page. That being said, needs, must.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 02:39 |
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^It 100% is dude.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 02:56 |
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Zerilan posted:Best way to read manga anyway is lying in bed with a tablet app. typically this is a good idea but lately i get pages that never load in mangarock and this saddens me.
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