Gah, very sorry for that!!! I got it right the second time at least. *fixed*
Thanks a lot for the advice. A userbase isn't terribly important for Anime Tosho, since the userbase won't really contribute much (as opposed to say, a forum or social networking type website). Although there are comments here, so the possibility of such a thing establishing is possible (though I personally think that a per-file based comment system is too fragmented for much discussion). At the moment, I'm going to focus more on developing this site rather than getting the word out (just that if anyone wanted to, they're free to recommend it to others).
Not sure how well your project went; it sounds like not too well - if so, that's sad to hear and I hope you've at least got something out of it.
ahh firstly thats "G" for Gumboot, lets hope you havnt started a trend with that little ?typo? shall we : ) your just lucky i cant do much with admin : ) (i did try for a good 5 minutes) With the little experience ive had with just the 1 project i was involved with from basically the begining it can be very hard to get a userbase established , one person tells another tells another and very slowly at first it snow balls. Also in our case we should have perhaps been better prepared at the begining , first impression is everything as they say and users arnt very forgiving of downtime etc until they are invested in or attached to the site/service/whatever. We tried all kinds of things to get attension, some were a waist of time, others worked somewhat well... the only thing that comes to mind for here might be to use tokyotosho itself if you dont think it will ruffle any feathers (just release something reasonably small and somewhat popular from time to time), comments and the website link are ussed for such All the time, or agian if you think it wont ruffle feathers approuch them (im presuming your not already involved there) for abit of banner space or a mention up top as they sometimes do.
Thanks a lot for your comment Gumboot! I've been working on this for months now; it's a fun side project of mine :) You're certainly not useless - your feedback (as well as everyone else!) is valuable to me! I don't expect visitors to really do anything - I've figured what needs to be done etc before I started. Though if you really do want to help, I guess the main thing I'm looking at is spreading the word. I found that there really wasn't any DDL mirror for TokyoTosho so I decided that I'd make this, and hope that it would be useful to others, so the more people that know about it makes me glad that it's actually of some use to others. It also means I get more feedback like yours, as well as suggestions and so on. :)
There's more to come, but I have to work around my other tasks/projects. Again, really appreciate your feedback Gumboot (as well as the others above), and glad you like the site :)
Thanks for the very useful site/service and the the work youve put into it so far , how long have you been working on it? anything a useless slob like myself can help you with? (or for that matter the countless other useless slobs out there... you know who you are!). For a beta its in remarkable good shape, feature set is ample (really like the seperate display of series name and ability to list others of the same btw), everything seems to work as it should best i can tell, hell i cant even find any typos to report. Not that my opinions worth anything (being a useless slob and all ; ) ) but job well done : ).
Many THANKS admin, this is the best site for new releases ever since all old sites are dead, your work is awesome and i like your site and your great/fast uploads :D
Btw any chance of increasing the size of eps/batches to 1.5gb instead of 1gb. More groups are releasing BDs in volumes and some of the eps are atleast 500+mb. Anyway i'm just assuming you can easily adjust this.... i have no idea how your site works lol. Tnx ^_^
It's almost entirely written by me (from memory, the only parts that aren't are the jQuery Javascript library, SecurImage CAPTCHA system (which is probably defeat-able by any half-serious bot coder) and a Javascript MD5 function). I was considering using a CMS to do this, but figured it won't be as flexible as a completely custom solution - so if you want to mimic this site / copy the whole idea / retrofit a copy for your porn collection, you could tinker with a CMS such as Drupal but you probably won't get it as flexible as this.
And no, I'm not using any framework other than jQuery =P
Thanks for the comment and notification. Unfortunately I can't do much about Fileserve as I'm a cheapskate and piggy-backing off another service to get it there (so they'll need to fix their end which should flow on through to this script). When the upstream uploader fixes it (assuming they ever do), new files should automatically be successfully sent to Fileserve, but current ones will remain dead unfortunately. Thanks again for the notification though!
Sorry for that - it was due to the server downtime (see latest updates on the home page). I wrote a bit more about it here if you're interested in reading.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm probably only willing to upload to a limited number of sites due to limited server bandwidth, but if everyone wants usaupload, I can look into adding it. Any other suggested file hosts or votes for usaupload?
14/08/2011 06:09 — admin