Kissmanga has kissed goodbye to their servers: Refugees welcome!

[shiko101]

So how likely is mangadex to suffer the same fate as kissmanga? with the japanese copyright laws and all

 

[Komaru]

@shiko101

I have this the same fate as well...

 

[Tearsax]

About damn time that shithole closed.

 

[Joshelplex]

How do we know these new laws wont eventually impact this site?

 

[Tupiks]

after what happened first to mangarock and now to kissmanga i am starting to back up at least names of mangas and weebtoons i read

 

[YUWIN]

rip KissAnime too

 

[negavamas]

So apparently they closed because their backup files were nuked by Google when they discovered they were storing it in their servers.
How in the name of god did they last this much storing their stuff in Google drive?

 

[mangadexuser00]

thank you for hosting us refugees. it's a good thing that i had already made an account here, so that part wasn't too troublesome. i just have to remember all the manga i've ever read and bookmark them here. tough work, but at least i can read again! thanks again!

 

[thelittlefox]

@negavamas well, their files were always on GG drive, just like many other pirate sites. It's the way for sites like them make profit, since they don't want to pay for storage and bandwidth, which is a huge part of streaming/manga site. Most of pirate sites I know do this since google video was still a thing. Saved tons of money I tell you.

I don't think they lost the backup and everything, sites like them should have physical backup for years already, just the hassle of being chased, ad rev going down (they didn't have much choice of choosing advertisers to begin with), and the owner called it. That's my take on this.

A bit shame when I'd used the site since it opened in 2011. Feeling nostalgic every time I came back to it once a year. Now it's really gone 😅

 

[halloween20]

hm... when will it hit MD ? 🤐😑😰

 

[PoopyPants]

@Tearsax That shit hole had more content and updated faster than this site or any other.

 

[NorionV]

For those of us that lost their bookmarks:

I vote we take this as a new beginning. As if we were fledgling manga readers just born from the primordial yolk of our excessive weebness, we shall plunge into the world of manga anew and rediscover a brand new list of favorites to obsess about every day of our lives.

It's likely you're able to remember your favoritest of favorites. But if you can't remember the others, were they even worth remembering? Are they really worth your time? Nay, I say - you've grown as readers - perhaps the new favorites list will be bigger, better, and far more weebalicious than the one we just lost.

ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Reis]

i mean the site was utter dog shit but the site was the og pirationg site for so many people its like seeing a part of ur childhood die RIP

 

[2252020]

plykiya is now a developer, update the about page

 

[Timeyy]

This is a good reminder to not rely on aggregators. I remember downloading hentai over irc back the day lol. If push comes to shove we will just have to sacrifice the comfort of aggregator sites and online readers and go back to downloading individual chapters directly from the scanlation groups.

As long as weebs exist people will make fan translations of manga series that don't have official translations.

 

[DizzyMiko]

Maybe I should count myself lucky to have never used either of these websites. Never even heard of Mangarock until it was taken down and brought up here, and never touched KissAnime/Manga because: for anime, I've always used fansubs if not available where I lived; for manga, when not reading official stuff, I used Onemanga (remember THAT website before most of it's well-known content was taken down?), then moved on to Bato.to (before it was effectively taken down/sold?), and then moved here. I hated most manga aggregators and would avoid most, unless I was looking for something VERY particular that no one else seemed to host, and I hated streaming anime because why do that when I can store it and become a literal archivist. So far, with the few things I've managed to save, there is a LOT of really old mid-late 2000s era fansubs that can't even be found anymore (dead links/torrents/websites/fansub groups/etc.) of stuff I nearly forgotten lol

But yeah, sounds like things will get pretty wild for a while. Tempted to host stuff for Mangadex@home, but I have to clean one of my 4TB HDDs and see if it's healthy enough to even do so. Not to mention, need to build a NAS soon with some Red/Enterprise drives, so who knows.

 

[AiriAi]

I used to read before on Kissmanga as well and then I discover Mangadex, I'm kinda shocked tho. Are the stories here, the same as there? I can't even remember anymore, but I had several manhuas and manwhas bookmarked there and someday I was planning to come back, geez. )":

 

[Tearsax]

@PoopyPants More content and faster updates? Yeah... no xD We are in 2020, not 2010 LOL.
KissManga was a thing years ago, but nowadays was no different than any other aggregator ruled by bots + pop ups.

 

[Foris]

Well I come from KM but mangadex is bit trashy. A lot of mangas have missing chapters, or not updates for months.
I understand it follow decision of translation groups if they upload or not but from reader point of view this site sucks.

 

[PoopyPants]

@Tearsax unsure if you are just being a pretentious twit or are stupid. Either way it ends the same.

but in 2010 you were probably not old enough to use the internet so I will forgive you.