Casual chatting thread

Purple Loli Behind the Slaughter
Joined
Apr 11, 2024
Messages
3,627
oh yeah, remember the time when we (excluding every regular that joined after Nov 2024) performed an experiment to see what happens when someone gets -100 reaction score?

well uh...

we got our results, but at what cost?

uxHUwUY.jpeg
 
Dex-chan lover
Joined
Sep 24, 2024
Messages
991
How did this never interest me when seeing it until now
Y'know, with this video being made, and posted here, along with the recent forum nonsense... ૮-ᆺ- ა

Maybe this is a sign for me to make my own website... ૮o.o ა

I've always been interested in the indie Web as it had basically seemed to have completely died off by the time I starting surfing the net ૮.ω. ა and I always wanted to have my own little place on the Web ૮o.o ა
 
Contributor
Joined
Jan 8, 2023
Messages
1,446
MangaDex only exists because scanlators are willing to upload and readers are willing to donate. We obviously aren't interested in throwing either under the bus because active scanlators can freely remove their works from the site and we aren't shoving ads in our reader's faces. There's no question that MangaDex is growing larger than Batoto ever had. Large pirate sites ran by communities have a tendency to face a decision to legalize or die to litigation. If MangaDex was to ever legalize, it would have to be at the benefit of a majority of the scanlators involved. Otherwise the site loses its identity and is as good as dead anyways.

Not to mention, I wouldn't be supporting a website whose goal was to kill off scanlation as a scanlator myself.
source
That's why the deer left the team?!
 
Dex-chan lover
Joined
Mar 28, 2019
Messages
232
Don't quote the old texts to me. I was there when they were written!

Nothing new can be gleaned from that, though. It was a plot by greedy scanlators.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Seer knew you can get banned for doing that.

edit: I can't type this morning
so was i.

anyway.
holo said that they would go legit if the opportunity presented itself

(see https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...-our-rose-colored-glasses.273021/post-5024826 )

in the original post the cropped post from holo at some point said : "unlikely in the next year but 5 years, who knows."
if that was about going legit it would fit. the post is from 2019, add in the pandemic as a slowing factor and we are in 2026.

so maybe there was a grain of truth in that plot.

also nice to re-read in the current situation
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...-our-rose-colored-glasses.273021/post-5025783
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Top