Holo OP

Holo OP 2 years ago



Edit: It has been disabled because the new method was causing the site to crash when over 2000 people are online. Currently redoing it.



Monthly update:

Here are the stats for the past month compared to 2 months ago:







As you can see, we have seen an increase of 83% in users to 1.1 million in the past month, as well as an increase of 68% in page views to 36 million.



So far we have managed to get the site going without any support, but soon we'll need your support to further upgrade the servers in order to continue coping with this phenomenal growth in users and activity.



There will be some fun ideas with regards to how we'll handle donations, so stay tuned! ? The most common complaint/bug has now been fixed.Edit: It has been disabled because the new method was causing the site to crash when over 2000 people are online. Currently redoing it.Monthly update:Here are the stats for the past month compared to 2 months ago:As you can see, we have seen an increase of 83% in users to 1.1 million in the past month, as well as an increase of 68% in page views to 36 million.So far we have managed to get the site going without any support, but soon we'll need your support to further upgrade the servers in order to continue coping with this phenomenal growth in users and activity.There will be some fun ideas with regards to how we'll handle donations, so stay tuned! ? ago by Last edited 2 yearsby MangaDex

Delnoir

Delnoir 2 years ago I think we all knew that eventually we'd have to start supporting to keep this rodeo going. I say bring it on.

AlexMCS

AlexMCS 2 years ago just as expected. And keep that development up!

I'm getting a lot of inspiration from this site to make my own work-related systems XD

temor

temor 2 years ago Not surprising. I run a few sites on AWS and that shit is ruining me. This show must cost a ton.

I'm down for a patreon style monthly donation system or something similar.

chiruru

chiruru 2 years ago The site is still pretty new... but hot damn , thats a lot of traffic and its still growing.



Also, considering this site allow H to be uploaded unlike the former bato.to which is pretty strict on mature content, people will see this site as an alternative to H exclusive site like Exh or Nh if we update the H directory regularly, and that will end up in more traffic coming lol.



As a wise man once said "Never underestimate porn" lol. ago by Last edited 2 yearsby MangaDex

Otak

Otak 2 years ago Congrats on the fast grow, since batoto died lots of people have come here and watch the site grow and hopefully become even bigger and better, and don't worry if it's donations that you need I'm sure lot's of people are more than willing to help

alanek2002

alanek2002 2 years ago Was a matter of time, really; I'm seeing chapters uploaded en mass on my follows. More data = More cost.



This is the successor to Bato.to, after all.

EzioAs

EzioAs 2 years ago If I can donate like $2 per month and not have ads (not that there are ads now), I'm fine with it. Don't really need any other special privileges.

Flugel

Flugel 2 years ago Definitely willing in to throw some money to support if it means no obtrusive ads, especially virus inducing ones like some other hosting websites, and simply the stream of content of new chapters is well worth my money

jmikeg

jmikeg 2 years ago If I'm reading this right and for every 1 dollar you charge everyone a month you will make about 2 million a month. I'm OK with that. I'm with Flugel, I will not go to kiss^^@^&@ because of their viral inducing ads and if this sight goes in that direction I'll leave here as well.

Nick86

Nick86 2 years ago This is ok, to keep the whole expensive infrastructure up donations are indeed a good tool.

You can also use some non-invasive ads widgets. ago by Last edited 2 yearsby MangaDex

CharAznable

CharAznable 2 years ago Any kind of revenue stream is always good. Small banner ads or something like that is fine. I do like the idea of a patreon kind of deal so people can support it monthly.

Keimichi

Keimichi 2 years ago You can always do something like what AO3 and Wikipedia do for theirs, aka calculate the yearly cost of running the site, then every year have a funding period that encourages people to donate until the funding goal is met.



I’m really liking this system here right now. I’ve been unfortunately staying with some aggregate site due to their bookmarking system, so I’m really glad to finally see a successor of baototo with a good bookmark and filter system.

Knonderd

Knonderd 2 years ago I'm glad that this site is continuing to grow. With a lot of great feature and that the support for the scanlation I'm hoping that it will be able to last as long as it can. Cheers!!! =v=)/

VawX

VawX 2 years ago I'm all about that fun idea, so far the only real fun donation I've ever encounter is e-hentai, it literally gives you currency to use in a game which is actually pretty good mmm...

But even normal donation will be fine as long as it benefit the site mmm...

Pauan

Pauan 2 years ago +1 for Patreon (or something similar). I don't like regular donations because I have to remember to do it. With Patreon it donates automatically.



P.S. You've been doing a fantastic job, thanks a lot! ago by Last edited 2 yearsby MangaDex

Zephyrus

Forum Moderator Zephyrus 2 years ago I'm not going to ruin the surprise, but I can say with near certainty that we will *not* be using traditional ads unless our initial idea does not work as well as we'd like it to.



We want to avoid ruining the ad-free experience we've managed to cultivate so far.

loki266

loki266 2 years ago I think I never donated to any reader before but I will gladly donate for MangaDex. Definitely the best manga reader I've seen so far in my entire life.