Quick Q&A

馬殺雞

Q: Where are other July issue scans? You fuxxing lazy scrubs!

A:
C90 is coming (2016.8.12~8.14), although Mikocom isn't directly involved in the event, but our Japanese crew does.
He's now camping (yeah, literally.) in the park nearby the event site, so almost all Magazine scans were postponed.

giova

Nooooooooo :'( I'm waiting for the last number of Comic Hotmilk . However, thanks to you and your crew for all  your work

ferkunxd

The scans  ( magazines ) are very important that fucking  c90 :(   be scanned from anyway ?

MahoutsukaiRin

So this means the July releases were held in order to combinate them with August's because of C90. Well, can wait. There's no hurry for me.

sdf

Unreal scans never then T_T

dirt

COMIC LO 2016.9&10……

meauw

This is the price to pay to get some stuff that aren't printed in enough supply !

mrhorseshoe

Its fine. Comiket always takes priority.

aki

COMIC阿吽･････I want･･･

giova

There are any news about future scanning?

AKERU

r.i.p new magazines

john61020

請問沒有新的雜誌了嗎

提督

Our scanner went back to China for summer vacation.
He just came back and start scanning.

But then our scan processing server had a failed harddrive.
It has been replaced. We'll resume releasing new scans soon.

giova

This is really a good news, I'm happy also that all problems have been resolved. thanks for youe answer 提督

Sakuman10

Cool!
Good to know.
Thank you all for the hard work!

mastermirror

Yeah, "new". You're over two months behind.

There is always something. Comiket twice a year, vacation, exams, constantly some technical issues and so on. Basically, you're running late on everything all fucking year.

Get your shit together.

提督

We're very sorry that shit does happen.

We do not have any staff working FULL TIME in 2DJGAME, including all our teams.
Everyone has their daily life (work or university) to live, and deserve every bit of vacation, as well as freedom to go to as many events as they wanted.

You are more than welcomed to take over what we do, if you think you can make it better.
There are probably other people scanning the same magazines, you can download theirs.

We only release magazines because it provide ourselves a reliable supply of magazine scans, be it late, very late, or not.
Since start scanning over a year ago may be two years, this has been, and is still, a loss-making "project" that is subsidized by 2DJGAME game releases.
Again, we are sorry to be not in any position to improve, due to limited staff, audience and budget.

pico7

Wow, rude much? Sorry some peeps are so unappreciative. I will agree some extra communication may help, this is the first delay I've really encountered since registering. Things happen, but this is still great value. Appreciate having this service you guys have. Keep up the great work!

lovezack

提督 replied at 2016-10-12 19:53
We're very sorry that shit does happen.

We do not have any staff working FULL TIME in 2DJGAME, incl ...

您好，請問有中文版嗎？  英文看不太懂！

提督

pico7 replied at 2016-10-13 00:19
Wow, rude much? Sorry some peeps are so unappreciative. I will agree some extra communication may he ...

Sadly, the scanner simply disappear while back in China, and barely reply to our team's messages.
I don't actively participate in the magazine side so I didn't know it is this far behind.

Feel free to bring up any issue, good or bad. I can't keep track of everything without someone reminding.

提督

lovezack replied at 2016-10-13 04:25
您好，請問有中文版嗎？  英文看不太懂！

我們的掃圖員回國了，所以暫停了掃圖，我們也沒有準備後備的掃圖員。

我們網站成員都不是全職為網站服務，我們每天都有日常的工作或是學業要處理。
各組員亦有休假或是去什麼地方的權限 (被上面會員吐糟經常找原因不掃了)

我們的掃圖組一直都是靠 2DJGAME 遊戲發布收入補貼，差不多兩年了都沒有營利。
我們掃圖只是為了自己有穩定的雜誌來源，不管掃圖遲不遲。

我們人手和預算就只有那麼多了，所以希望各位見諒。

etc

Hi, sorry to hear about your issues.
Do you happen to have an approximate ETA for the public release of the magazines in the "VIP Unreleased Magazine" section?
Some of them have been posted 25+ days ago and I was thinking of translating a story or two from a couple of them, but I'm in need of raws.

Cheers

hihohahi

I hope things get sorted out well. Good luck on your end. Thanks for the update! @提督

馬殺雞

etc replied at 2016-10-14 05:28
Hi, sorry to hear about your issues.
Do you happen to have an approximate ETA for the public release ...

Huh.....I thought I already released them......

Anyway, thanks for your remind, I'll post them ASAP.

darkplatform

What is going on?
We have paid money for magazines and nothing is being scanned for months, MONTHS !!

giova

there is, more or less, a date for the release of new magazines? (maybe 1-2 weeks?)

john61020

雖然我只是個伸手黨
不過現在只剩下貴站會掃紙本雜誌了
其他網圖都是DL版，而DL版的解析度往往只有1000x1500左右
那本X-EROS#46還只有850x1200
說真的這種質素我連漢化都做不下手...
總之這年頭無論是字幕組還是掃圖都不好做呢

提督

darkplatform replied at 2016-10-14 23:00
What is going on?
We have paid money for magazines and nothing is being scanned for months, MONTHS  ...

We had some trouble after the disk failure.
New scans are already uploaded to our workspace, and is being cleaned.

Or otherwise, please find enough people to join our VIP so that we have budget to get an additional ADF scanner, so that we can get a backup scanning staff.
Scans are provided as best-effort only, we never mentioned any target, e.g. "Scan must be available in xxx days".

A VIP payment equivalent to the cost of 1 month of premium account that which you would have bought from other sites,
allow you to download 40 new magazines here, with no expiry date on your Access.
Try ask them to scan 40 magazines for you.

Not to mention most users don't download our public release directly from us, but instead from those other DDL sites who just copy from us.
We're as charity as it can be as an uploader. Our VIP is already cheaper than buying a premium account, but barely anyone buy one for our magazines.
Buying premium account through our site also give your VIP access.

We welcome any competitor to take over and scan everything, so that we don't have to.
That same money could allow us to rent an extra 100TB worth of storage.
It wasn't really the money, but the effort put in by many staff to get the magazine scans going, don't get appreciated by users.

lovezack

提督 replied at 2016-10-17 08:44
We had some trouble after the disk failure.
New scans are already uploaded to our workspace, and i ...

您好~
雖然看不懂英文，但是用翻譯的話
是否是因為成本的原因呢?

提督

lovezack replied at 2016-10-17 16:31
您好~
雖然看不懂英文，但是用翻譯的話
是否是因為成本的原因呢?

服務器前一會硬盤壞了，稍為受到影響，從別的服務器還完備份花了少許時間。
現在圖已經掃了一些上傳了，正在進行修圖。

上面有一位會員反映付了錢，有兩個月沒新書看。
我們的 VIP 從沒承諾過會在多少天內提供掃圖，僅提供我們能做到的範圍。

我們 VIP 費用已經便宜到不能再便宜了，只是相當於外國錢空一個月的高會，但是已經可以下載 40本新的雜誌。
就算他在其他漫畫站買錢空高會，也不可能有這些禁流本。
明明已經這麼便宜了也沒什麼人用，說不定我們的方針錯了。

另外就是當我們做對外發布時，似乎大部份的人都不是在我們網站下載，導致我們雜誌區幾乎都沒有收入了。只要是在這邊買錢空高會，都有 VIP 權限送的。

如果雜誌區有足夠的用戶購買 VIP，就可以多買一台掃描儀，可便我們多找個人一起掃圖，減少因為個人事情暫停掃描。

如果有任何對手想頂替我們，把雜誌全掃了，歡迎他們。
我們省的錢可以月租 100T 容量的服務器。
錢也不是大問題了，還是我們掃圖組的人員沒有人感謝。

我們掃圖了兩年，成本你去 Getchu 或者漫畫王逐個數的話，基本上能算到的。
等這次掃圖回復正常後，會考慮對發布進行修改，包括可能終止提供 HQ 版予公開用戶，或是限制會員每日只能免費下載一本等等。