@ninjadork
Well, lets start from the top.
JB is as acronym for Jaimini's Box
much less why some of you are up in arms about Mangadex redirecting comments to it
I'm personally up in arms about it, because I don't believe that's the behavior that a "scanlator friendly" "neutral" platform should engage in.
If you did some serious thinking. I don't believe you could think of another platform in which, when someone leaves it, the platform owners tell people to take any complaints to the person that left.
Generally, a neutral platform lets the community chat about it freely, and bans any that get hateful or rude. In order to not take a stance, you basically have to not point at the ones involved. If you point at the ones involved, direct them to use another form of social media to put their criticisms though, then you are no longer neutral. Especially when you have a much larger user base, that is about as loyal as an Apple fan.
I still have no idea what you scanlators consider so bad about going legit.
To go legit, the platform has to ditch them. It's without a shadow of a doubt that the platform would have to abandon the scanlators. Which ultimately means abandoning most of the readers. Because you're only going to be able to keep so much of it on your site. Only so much of it will be legal.
This is something that both CrunchyRoll and Fakku pulled. And it rightfully angered the communities at the time.
And unlike Holo's saying. You don't need Elon Musk money. You just have to dump what you can't license, and put ads on. The traffic would rapidly decrease, but you'd have enough to make a very pretty penny in the mean time.
I still have no examples of what you scanlators (or at least you personally, since I don't expect you to speak for others w/o their permission) consider to be "toxic comments" from the Mangadex posters.
Yuno posted a decent example on the JB discord.