@rrrrrrr3 Yeah, it ran for like 5-10yrs by the same guy, who eventually ran out of time, money, and mostly... time to keep it up and running. Sold for alot.... and I mean alot
Here is an random article about it https://myotakuworld.com/batoto-to-close-down/
taken from https://www.reddit.com/r/animepiracy/comments/jcij53/whatever_happened_to_batoto/
another random reddit link just bc https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/ild7pn/2_years_later_any_replacement_for_batoto/
In general. everyone knew for certain bato.to was the best place to upload, until 3 years ago when our golden empire fell to pieces and we rebuilt it into what is now mangadex. Which is like bato.to was, except with a usable forum and comment section that mods don't have to lock down twice per week