That's an interesting idea, but I don't really see the point in it unfortunately.

Firstly, this site wasn't designed to be operated by anyone other than myself, and there's a lot of accumulated knowledge that I have that anyone taking over would take quite some time to acquire. Thus if I just handed over the reins, they'd undoubtedly struggle without help from me.
Even if I didn't assist and they someone figured it all out from day one, your suggestion still requires me to monitor them, which is something I don't want to do.
Also the idea of pulling the plug on someone who's volunteering their efforts doesn't bode well with me, and I can't see motivated people liking such an arrangement anyway.

If someone does want to "take over", I'll be releasing the database/code so that they can do so, regardless of the issue above. They'll be able to run their own AT clone on their own terms without the added baggage of needing to pay tribute to me.

I'm hoping this shutdown encourages AT alternatives, which is something I've actually always wished for. I'm a believer that "competition" is beneficial to the community overall.

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I don't intend to ever come back to this project later, so the 'hiatus' idea isn't what I'm after.

@those who compress and change video/audio files

Whenever I use movavi to try to do this, it turns out like crap. Any advice? (like use a different program or what to do to not make them crap looking)

I literally tried making the new Divinity trailer just more compressed to a reasonable file size like megusta/Elite/Judas/Ember/Sokudo and it turned out like a pile of dinosaur shit.

admin-san, have you considered handing the site over to some trusty anons, whilst maintaining an kill switch? I'm sure faggots from /a/ would jump at the chance. If you acted as basically the site landlord it would mean if any volunteers you choose drive it into the ground or abuse the site you could simply pull the plug.

Having others run it whilst you maintain control over the url etc would also give you the chance to  treat this year as a hiatus, meaning you could take up the reigns again later. Your obviously emotionally connecting to the site, and I'm sure you understand that a lot of users feel connected to the site too, even though its just an anime site, it's our anime site if you know what I mean. . 15 years, fook, what was first link here? K-On!!? Angel Beats?

don't ever visit 4chan, you'll becooom bipoolar

Thanks for sharing

People, gimme links to your fave site that has a front page of updating anime, preferably with jpgs of the anime keyviz like here https://animetosho.org/animes. Oh, incoming episodes of Donguas would be nice too.

Thanks for the link. Sampled new release download and 2 from 2021. No watermark.

Not all videos are hardsubbed, but I agree they're different from Anime Tosho. They don't process their uploads.

Completely different from animetosho, they watermark/hardsubed their videos. tons sites like this, though.

only  for full ep ddl https://tokyoinsider.com/

Are there any alternative sites to Anime Tosho?