;_;

We're running out of those places. The hydra isn't growing new heads. Worry about this. Or better yet, do something.

>discussion on the other chan suppressed It's getting worse and worse over there. I swear, anime could get banned globally and halfchan's /a/ would ban any talk on this. That's worse than people realize, because fans use that site to organize.

>>72847 Did you not see the leaks during the hack? The jannies are CR employees and general randos on gook payrolls to attack JP media.

>>72849 When mangadex got hit discussion on /a/ was just fine.

>>72846 Like what? I honestly don't know anymore. Best that could happen is if something distracts the copyright krakens for a while and the crackdowns slow down.

can these sites get a clue and nuke korean shit.

>>72853 This, just stop hosting gookrean feces, it's that easy.

Centralised sites serving copyrighted content disappear eventually or start taking things down. (Seems to be getting worse, I agree) Also consider that these sites are normalfag friendly - you just have to open your browser. That means more popularity and attack surface. I wonder if there's a tracker for scanlated manga - but i guess most scanlators just upload to 1-2 sites and that's it, When a site disappears, you have to hope that someone uploads to the next site...

>>72858 Trackers don't work well for manga unlike anime. Scanlator groups should run their own IRC/XDCC. Maybe add I2P on top to keep normalfags away.

>>72838 Let me guess, they hosted korean- >>72857 Sounds about right. When will people fucking learn?

>>72961 They work pretty decently well for officially translated manga (and eromanga, of course). Frequent updates complicate things. (Un)fortunately, you can't append to a published torrent... Sure, a new magnet for every chapter instead of volume is more work, but it can still be automated. The new magnet can have the same old files plus new_chap.cbz, So you just have to load that. Delete the old magnet from the tracker and add the new one, done. >Scanlator groups should run their own IRC/XDCC heh, the average scanlator uses discord and probably nothing else. I have to admit that I never got into IRC, so I don't know much - how would DCC work? I get that you can send files over it, between clients - but can you define and update a set of files, for example?

This probably shows centralized aggregators that are more than just MAL style metadata sheets are not really going to cut it these days.

I kinda wish that comick would've stayed around as a tracker because the tag system was the most detailed I've ever seen on an anime or manga site. it was kinda crazy how specific you could get with what you wanted

>>73121 It showed signs of starting to devolve into nonsense like the NU one, it was probably a few months away from everything with more than 1 female character being tagged as "harem".

>Turns out comik died to shill crunshit manga's app, l

FUCKING LMAO

>>72999 >you can't append to a published torrent It's a shame that even the new v2 format doesn't support this feature >how would DCC work The group sets up their IRC bot. User joins their channel and requests the files to the bot. The file is transferred from the group's computer to the user's computer directly, without any intervention of the IRC network. Obviously the group pays for server, storage and bandwidth. >can you define and update a set of files The files reside on the group's computer. They publish an index somewhere, preferably on their website. They update the list as and when the files are modified. User requests the files using this index. It's a very old and primitive protocol, but it just works.

>>73257 >It's a very old and primitive protocol, but it just works. Given modern jeet codemonkeys can't code and techbro AIs can't either, we are rapidly approaching the point this shit is lost alien tech.

So what are you guys using now?

>>73257 >v2 format doesn't support this feature Yeah. But if it did, you should be able to turn it off. Also, not sure how you could do that. Maybe the magnet could reference a public key that signs the actual versions. Depending on how the new versions are detected, you might end up being vulnerable (to "denial of service") if bad versions are being spammed. >DCC is basically a file server Are there any advantages over an indexed static http server and a random crawler on the client side? Or ftp? They can all work over i2p, but if you don't use it, they all can easily be shut down once they draw attention. Sure - it may draw less attention, but...

>>73322 Cope with kek clones or wc for the time being.

>>73340 I don't want to use kek clones.

Something funny of note, apparently 95% of the DMCA takedowns to hide results on google search seem to be thanks to gooks.

>>72857 >>73416 Gooks really need to be culled holy shit.

The only cool webtoon I've read was Hellper. Those sites really, really need to stop hosting korean stuff.

>>73511 Instructions unclear, must host the gorillion gooktoons that nobody ever talks about.

Apparently an anon from the 4/a/ isekai general is doing another aggregator, this time without gookkuso, let's see how it goes.

>>73563 Godspeed

>>73563 Please post it if it ever gets finished and comes online. Also someone tell the nigger to not use cloudflare.

I don't even know where to read most manga now. where do scanlators even upload their stuff now? mangadex is missing shitload of titles weebcentral is the same, they don't have many official scans like comick did. so many titles I like are missing. weekly/monthly official scans (english) aren't even uploaded to nyaa, so I'm totally lost right now.

>>72847 discussion on industry-wide, hobby-wide issues is """""out of topic""""" on 4/a/ (3 days ban on all boards) literally anything that isn't a weekly seasonal anime thread can be considered out of topic with enough mental gymnastic by the jannies there.

>>72849 It was obvious when Solo Leveling threads get monitored and protected 24/7 (not an exaggeration) by mods (not jannies) against any kind of negative opinion. They advertise their stuff not by buying ads space, but by bribing mods or perhaps even Hiro himself. the kind of ads that can't be hidden by an adblocker.

>>72846 >>72852 Torrent, but no one is uploading and nyaa admins are total faggots who never open registration. Gatekeeping so extreme to the point that it's detrimental to the site, to the hobby as a whole.

Also it's obvious that the reason these websites keep dying is because they hosted KOREAN COMICS. Unlike the very slow, clueless and inept Japanese, the koreans are very aware AND anal about copyright stuff. They just never fucking learn. Why don't these fucking retards understand that MANGA means JAPANESE COMICS? If people want to read manhwa, then go to fucking manhwa websites. stop piggybacking japanese comics popularity. fucking parasites.

>>73640 Piggybacking on Japanese comics is how Korean ones got to prominence in the first place anon. Even the Chinese ones did it with stuff like Feng Shen.

>>73640 Adding to this: https://circleid.com/posts/20240701-south-korean-telecom-giant-kt-corporation-accused-of-infecting-600000-users-with-malware-over-torrent-use It shows they are also using underhanded methods and will even break the law in their war against piracy.

>>73647 I don't know how it is these days, but you probably still need VeraPort to access the internet or at least some services in worst Korea. So a MITM is trivial.

>>73636 I keep.hearing to use suwayomi, haven't tried it myself however.

>>73638 I actually realized it with comfort women archive threads which from what I hear were basically the same as SL threads.

>>73640 >Unlike the very slow, clueless and inept Japanese, Anon, at this point from a gorillion leaks everywhere is clear the average jp company is more aware than even gooks about piracy but only sony really does anything because is free advertising, especially for very niche stuff.

>>73647 I will cheer when north and best korea glasses these fucking bugchink gooks.

Comick is online now and as a tracking site I think it does a really good job directing you where to go. I already found some nice alternatives.

>>73683 Kinda sad to just have a corpse back. Gooks need to be glassed.

>>73563 Any progress on this?

>>73655 >>73640 Not just free advertising, I would argue Anime/Manga is the best propaganda a country has ever used to improve it's image, so politics have actual reasons to be careful with anti-piracy measures. Just think: for most people Japan was basically "China" , "China but Ninjas" , "our enemies in WWII" , "our allies in WWII" or "whale hunting land" . Thanks to anime and censor-free internet you had a shit ton of young people who consumed Japanese media with settings that were clearly Japanese, giving this whole culture some sort of familiarity and essentially "de-exoticizing" it in their eyes. And you don't want your culture to be considered "the exotic", because that's just funny dances and stuff. SoL and other urban stories did this especially well, giving a sense of Japs being actually people and not "the exotics". Just look at the protrayal of Japanese and Japan in pre-2000s media, it's striking.

>>73655 >but only sony really does anything Only in amerimuttland. In japan they basically give zero shits, someone literally pirated PS2 games in front of CEO at the time, quite literally directly to his face, to prove they had a massive piracy problem and he had zero fucks to give. To this day they barely do lipservice to stop PS4 and PS5 piracy and jailbreakings of the console.

Its funny how some retards have been shilling really hard batoto as a option, when batototo is literally the worst possible option.

>>73727 Could be worse, all things considered batoto is just an outdated mangasee clone.

>>73727 >when batototo is literally the worst possible option. Why?

>>73733 They reserve the right to b& anything they find "problematic". In a way, whatever they don't like they may call it problematic and remove it.

>>73738 Out of curiosity I went and looked at the front page. 95% of it is literally just corean and chink BL kuso. Quite a few shitskins in the covers as well. Hope the gook corps nuke them too.

>>73738 >>73739 >Foid honeypot keeps getting shilled. Sounds about right. Someone should report the site to kakao to take the piss.

Tried out suwayomi, it was surprisingly obnoxious to set up and use, but also surprisingly decent overall. Could be worse but the experience really needs more polishing.

>>73748 Looked it up, seems like an unnecessary hassle when it just hooks off already existing aggregators.

>>73768 There's no real better alternative these days, let's be real. There may be one once a comick replacement appears but for now that's as good as it gets.

The main corean government data center burned down and they had no backups. This has to be some kind of cosmic retribution at this point.

>>73829 thats not enough tbh all koreans need to die for my semi-frequent flick-throughs of manga catalogs

>>73829 Doesn't matter if Kakao isn't involved

>>73748 Thanks for the alternative suggestion. Will check that.

>>73879 It's better for anime streaming than manga IMO, the manga UI is way too clunky compared to browsing on a kek clone. >Muh streaming le bad. I know, but just for a quick preview of a first episode to decide if it's worth torrenting it's not that bad.

>>73884 Needed a fucking video tutorial on setting it up holy shit it made me feel like a tech illiterate Shōwa ojisan. Also I think their manga UI from what I tried was decent, the fuck are you on about? A bit clunky for sure but still far from bad. The search UI itself is far worse actually.