Terracotta's Topics (150)

it's less about stuff being on here and more about when an author makes a public statement naming the site, if it's free to read already then it doesn't need to be uploaded here, mgo mods have removed titles completely before on the requests of authors so it's something that does happen just not very often. Plus a lot of us have seen what happens to mgo when authors get involved with their works being on the site, we've seen it before and it's fckn hell. it's best to just delete it and move on and hope the site doesn't get locked down like it did before or even worse get taken down all together.

I mean, have they removed titles before, absolutely. I know the Pian Pian author was up in arms a couple years ago and that got removed but that’s so rare on here. Even POTN whose author who as a massive following didn’t get taken down after a tonnnn of controversy. I’m not saying it’s not best to just take it down and move on, I’ve just never seen people on this site rally behind an author. It’s not as if the website is some underground thing, it has hundreds of thousands of users, i’m sure most authors already know the name of it, what it is, etc, esp in a field like that that’s fairly niche and a semi-small community.

I mean you're not wrong but the whole point is that the author made a public statement so people are on edge about it simply cuz of similar past issues so I understand why so many are in the comments rn backing the author. Like you said with much bigger names it'll most likely blow over at some point but it still makes people worry regardless.

Idk I get people worry but i’ve been on the site for 9 years now and everytime there’s a mass hysteria over the site getting “found out,” which yet again….everyone already knows about it, or taken down, it never does. Sure, we lost being able to comment for a couple years and the site data wipe earlier in the year, but that’s genuinely the worst that’s happened after dozens of false “omg guys the sites gonna get shut down!!!!” alarms

No shade but that shi gets annoying does it not ?plus isn’t this exactly what happened to bato or something similar?everyone and they mama knew about it so nobody really took it seriously when the site kept getting threatened and then boom it’s gone idk I see what your point is but at the same time it’s lowkey better to just be safe I’ve gotten so attached to TS that even the slightest threat makes me panic

I mean, yeah, the mass panic and hysteria are never a good thing, but I had a similar mindset with Bato, and look what happened to that site. Just because something hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it won’t happen eventually. I get why people are skeptical when there have been so many false alarms, but that doesn’t mean the concerns are automatically unfounded. And an author making public statements about it just adds fuel to the fire.

Bato getting shut down sucks, but people genuinely acted like it was the end of the world and that they lost the chance to ever read those titles again. When one piracy site goes down, another will inevitably pop up, it’s the nature of piracy. If it’s not bato, it’s mangago, if it’s not mgo, it’s comix.to, if it’s not that it’s mangamaniacs or the blank or atsumaru or any of the over dozens of manga piracy sites that exist. If the site goes down, it goes down, and we move onto the next five sites that’ll pop up after it’s gone. The titles you read on here will always exist somewhere.

I get that other sites will pop up, but that doesn't mean everything from the old ones will be preserved. There are already works that were only available on bato that are now essentially lost media because they were never uploaded elsewhere. The more public attention these sites get, especially from authors speaking out on social media, the harder it becomes for new sites to preserve older content before it disappears. It might not be a big deal to you personally, but it is to people who have lost access to works they can't find anywhere else. That's my point, and why I don't think the concerns are entirely unfounded.

If someone is so personally engrossed that a site like mgo going down is going to, idk affect their mental health or anything along those lines and be a massive deal to their life, then they shouldn’t read on illegal piracy sites given there’s always a chance they go down. And yes, I know some titles you can only read on piracy sites and can’t even really acquire legally, but that’s such an extremely tiny tiny percent of works that it feels a bit cherry picky, and if it truly trulyyy is a work that means that much to you and you know you can’t get it anywhere else, and it would affect your life in a serious way, screenshot or save just in case.

I’d love to know some titles of things that were truly lost post bato. I’m sure there’s a couple exceptions, but in general, there’s always a way.


Ultimately, idrc, this title with literally one chap out getting taken down from this site means nothing so I don’t gaf either way, I just thought it was interesting.