Back when I was using reddit, it was jarring to me that imgur has became alive and its own social media. I hate when my photo albums started talking with each other.

I agree. Their database or at least a long list what they had should be shared somewhere. Torrents should probably still be in nyaa. If that fails I assume they are in private trackers and in ehwntai or nhentai.

I would think Big Pharma will aggressively fight against it.

I’ve long had this problem of tracking the multiple manga (and anime) that I’ve been interested in since the 2010s. Back then there was this one reader site called onemanga and I had all my eggs on that. as usual it had to go down somehow (in their case, money) and that scared me into using MyAnimeList (MAL) and mangaupdates (MU) to track everything. On top of that now I add kitsu.io and anilist now.

I think if you’re going to move manually one by one from kotatsu and mihon, might as well add a couple extra steps to those sites to help track as well. I’ll admit though in terms of esoteric items, kitsu is the least, followed by anilist, MAL then MU as the highest chance to include weird stuff. I have to redo my MU list since I somehow got my old account deleted and who knows what weird manga I’ve tracked that got lost.

Eh, I’d say this is different than say scanlators complaining they’re not getting donations, or even sillier, people not paying them when the pay gate their scans and translations. Or scamlators beefing with each other because they accuse of stealing each other or some shit.

It is pointless drama that put a target on the devs though but they’ll pull through

Yeah I jumped the gun on this one tbh. The “better” news is that kotatsu has taken down their repos. It should still work as long as the extensions that get the manga are still updated and working

And the manga sites themselves still being up that is.

The real mihon discord mods have been really diligent to stop any questions asking for source and where to get pirated mamgas. They even dont allow to say official sources too just in case.

But regardless kakao etc wouldn’t care about that and I dont think hobby devs are going to challenge a C&D from a group of companies in court.

This is true. Some still use the last tachiyomi release til today so as long as extensions get updated it should be fine really.

And one of mihon devs did say on reddit they have backups of the source code. It’ll probably will pop up again under another name

Read on reddit that one of the mihon devs do keep backup of the source code so it probably will be revived in another name if they get taken down.

Fingers crossed nothing happens

Kotatsu bundled in the extensions that scrapes manga sites like tachiyomi used to so that’s the biggest sin that they’re targeted by kakao etc.

Give mihon a try.

This has instructions where and how to get the extensions.

Although kotatsu will work for a bit I think it’s best you start looking to migrate. But AFAIK there’s no easy way to migrate unless you use other sites to track your reading progress and read lists.

Yeah. I considered Kotatsu before when Tachiyomi shut down, but stuck with Mihon as it’s a direct successor. Although I use one of the forks though because… panda time.

Never really did tried Kotatsu.

After submitting myself to torture by back reading a bit of their discord’s general chat from the point of the two announcements, it’s a crashout and some pirates’ beef with each other.

So now I wished I reported on Kotatsu’s shutdown only, not this annoying drama.

Better back up your list somehow in case they go down.

But also just my luck as I submitted this post, Antsy updated on their discord lol.

Here’s the post:

Hello @everyone again,

Sorry for acting childish on the whole situation. 1.5 years of frustration bursted out with Kotatsu dying and iiTachiyomi pushing the “Mihon Community” thing. After a good night of sleep and staff being angry with me (love them) I’ve decided to end this whole thing again. I’ve 4 reasonable demands for iiTachiyomi. I won’t escalate it even if they disagree. But I hope the community will hold them accountable if they do.

https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331231274082805
https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331233522200961
https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331235816440171
https://xcancel.com/mihonapp/status/1986331238148546834

Man, I remember the yotaphone. I really wanted yo get them back then. I was even living in Russia for a bit during Medvedev’s term as president.

All because I want to put a weird wallpaper on the back as well lol

I mention the Russia thing because AFAIK yota is a Russian company.

This is a JoJo Steel Ball Run reference a bit

IIRC MS tried to add the big Google apps on WP, especially YouTube. I only remember for YouTube’s case but google stepped in to block MS’s efforts every time they fixed something broken. Clearly fair competition.

Of course it doesn’t excuse no other apps that were mainstream are on there (or were but not supported for very long as MS stopped paying for them tp be on their platform IIRC).

I do think by WP 10 they lost the plot. WP8 was peak but alas that time the market was going all app ecosystem.

You forgot Windows Phone

I swear one of the few good things MS made is Windows Phone. I gave my mom one back then and she didn’t even need much guidance to get used to it. Hell even I like it. It’s so intuitive and beautiful aesthetics. Too bad the market was moving to siloed apps back then (and is still staying there now).

After it got lost and have to replace with an Android phone, it took some guidance from me. But it can be argued that she’s just used to WP and learning a new UX on a new OS understandably takes some learning and guidance.

Sorry I waxed lyrical about a Big Tech product in a Ubuntu post, but idk I really do feel like they did good with it.

Another zetsubou sensei enjoyer, nice.

It is one of my favorite anime and manga series, Top 5 for me. The soundtrack is also a banger.

I’m liking this move to horizontal camera arrangement. We’ve been plagued by lopsided stupid bumps.

Typical Sony pricing. They always shoot themselves in the feet with it.