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A lot of manga series only get picked up for official licenses because of the interest generated by scanlations of the series, you realize.
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Captain Invictus posted:Irc? What are you, a loving old? I knew I should have keep that gopher site in reserve for just such a day as this. Ah, the mistakes of youth.
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Davincie posted:the whining about corporations is unneeded when they have very little to do with batoto shutting down Yea it sounded like it was a stressful hobby that was only gonna become more of a problem if the place kept running. I can't blame 'em for getting out. DisDisDis posted:I think the immense popularity of some mangas' scanlations was probably a big factor in them later getting localized. It's also only recently that any of the actually readable homo stuff (with a few notable exceptions) is getting localized. I've heard interviews that suggest some of the English manga publishers definitely keep an eye open on that popularity. They usually don't outright say it but they have implied it's helpful as a boost to the more niche releases in particular.
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Matoi Ryuko posted:I meant it as "we're helpless to stop the continuing closing of the scanlation sites and I fear there will one day be no free manga option." ah
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Matoi Ryuko posted:I meant it as "we're helpless to stop the continuing closing of the scanlation sites and I fear there will one day be no free manga option." this one just got closed because the guy got tired of doing it. there will always be free manga options even if that option is a guy on 4chan posting the untranslated pages and then posting a text translation
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Jan 9, 2018 00:42
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Speaking of digital manga sites, anybody else remember when MangaBox was semi-good? Free, official chapters on a regular basis, with a mobile app. But it blocked old chapters entirely (you couldn't even pay for them if you wanted to  ), and started randomly dropping series with no warning.Wonder if it would have gotten to be a big name if it was run better.
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Jan 9, 2018 00:42
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Matoi Ryuko posted:Anime Scanlators are ftw but all will eventually be pushed out by corporations, and left with nothing to show for their work. A terrible fate. Some official subbers used to do fansubs, same for game localizers and fan tls, so I assume the experience at least helps if it's not strictly a hobby.
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Davincie posted:the whining about corporations is unneeded when they have very little to do with batoto shutting down corporate shilling ftw
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Schubalts posted:Speaking of digital manga sites, anybody else remember when MangaBox was semi-good? Free, official chapters on a regular basis, with a mobile app. But it blocked old chapters entirely (you couldn't even pay for them if you wanted to In Japanese the app still has a decent number of series so it's possible they just couldn't get people to translate in a timely manner/at all (at a guess they weren't paid a great deal since the app is free and doesn't even have ads), but yeah, it's unfortunate that the English version is nearly dead and I doubt they'll be adding anything new after the few existing series finish, if they get that far.
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Jan 9, 2018 00:57
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Strange Quark posted:A lot of manga series only get picked up for official licenses because of the interest generated by scanlations of the series, you realize. This
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Captain Invictus posted:Irc? What are you, a loving old? Yep. Getting older every day. Did you know I still watch anime with my friend in California where we sync up our video files and comment to each other over IRC? I AM OLD GET OFF MY LAWN. Julias posted:This True story, Seven Seas gets a lot of their licenses from browsing 4chan. No seriously, their lead editor said so himself at AX. Seven Seas are also stand up dudes, so support them. They actually understand how scanlation helps the industry and don't get on my rear end about it.
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Tarage posted:True story, Seven Seas gets a lot of their licenses from browsing 4chan. No seriously, their lead editor said so himself at AX. This explains their current collection pretty well actually
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^^I believe this. I've no doubt titles like "My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness" wouldn't have gotten picked up if not for fan interest (due to a fan translation existing), and while it kinda fits into the idea of "monster girl's are the new hotness, let's license monster girl series left and right", jitsu wa probably got more consideration over other titles because of interest generated by the fan translations you guys worked hard on.
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Jackard posted:Except now it no longer links to their websites! Enjoy~ anything that makes manga/anime less available to the masses/lazy is a good thing imho
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i rate that post a 1
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Jan 9, 2018 04:38
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Let me know when one of you fixes it, thanks.
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Jan 9, 2018 05:53
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Josuke Higashikata posted:just double or triple up on your ad condoms if you're using kissmanga How are none of you using Manga Rock app? No need to suffer through lovely ads.
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Jan 9, 2018 06:47
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RIP Batoto, son of Nartoto.
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Jan 9, 2018 09:18
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Well that's a drat shame. I've used the site for a few years now and it's probably the least troublesome way to follow manga out there, and I've found a lot of stuff I wouldn't have otherwise read or small/weird mangas through the new releases on the front page. (and also a lot of terrible garbage) Is there any site out there that lets you export your followed stuff? If not I'm just gonna copy everything to a text file and make a note of what chapters I'm on. (That's a feature I'd really like for any follow-on site, a function to place a bookmark for your last-read chapter on a series.) Mordaedil posted:How are none of you using Manga Rock app? No need to suffer through lovely ads. I'm not downloading your goddamn app.
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Jan 9, 2018 09:29
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Not really my app, I'm genuinely curious.
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Jan 9, 2018 09:34
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why does anyone use irc when discord is a thing
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Jose posted:why does anyone use irc when discord is a thing I lose sleep over this.
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Mordaedil posted:How are none of you using Manga Rock app? No need to suffer through lovely ads. Why would I use a tablet or phone to read manga when I have a nice computer monitor Jose posted:why does anyone use irc when discord is a thing Genuinely good question
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El Burbo posted:People just liked the “all pages in one” thing. That’s it. The only time I like that is for action sequences I click through rapidly. I don't see the appeal otherwise.
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Mordaedil posted:How are none of you using Manga Rock app? No need to suffer through lovely ads. Does the free version still show you ads while reading, that also cause the app to crash, freeze, etc? Or ask for all the permissions when installing? Just use Tachiyomi instead of that shady garbage.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Why would I use a tablet or phone to read manga when I have a nice computer monitor I read on the throne or in bed basically. But otherwise yeah, sure. Sarpsa posted:Does the free version still show you ads while reading, that also cause the app to crash, freeze, etc? Or ask for all the permissions when installing? I don't think I had to pay for it and it doesn't have ads, that's kinda the point. It struggled with batoto for a while and recently got that fixed, so it kinda sucks that batoto is shutting down now.
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Why would I have my phone out while blasting the pan?
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Jan 9, 2018 13:42
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yeah thats what the switch is for
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mangastorm is the best manga app i've used but i think it's dead and ios only. i gave up trying to find one for android because most of them suck and reading manga on a phone is awful
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Jan 9, 2018 14:06
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the batoto man should just give me the keys to the website. i will keep it running.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Why would I have my phone out while blasting the pan? Yeah, why would you? I just have a dedicated tablet for that, that I got as a gift from work.
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Jan 9, 2018 14:16
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That's more like it.
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Jose posted:why does anyone use irc when discord is a thing Some people are just used to using it so unless they want stuff like VoIP, IRC works just fine.
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I mean in the context of this is it possible to widely share/distribute files on discord like IRC?
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Nate RFB posted:I mean in the context of this is it possible to widely share/distribute files on discord like IRC? There are protocols you can run like XDCC that allow for downloading files. It's not uncommon for some older manga scanlation groups to do this so you just hop into their irc channel and run whatever command is needed to call for the file.
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discord has fairly small filesize limits for uploads iirc, and i have no idea how long those are hosted
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You can host a website for like 50 dollars a year.
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Jan 9, 2018 20:42
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You can host a website almost for free, it's the terabytes of bandwidth that you need to pay big money for
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There is also hosting in a country that won't get shut down since the whole website revolves around piracy.
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