Jacob Posts
Now that you have posted a list of what is missing, I will re-upload it! And I'm locking this topic for now.
I encourage everyone to provide constructive criticism about the way I work and the way things are on FAKKU. I listen to all of it and use it to improve things both on the website and with how I work. I am in no way perfect and I have never claimed to be. There are countless things I can improve about myself and with FAKKU, and hopefully I'll do both.
I encourage everyone to provide constructive criticism about the way I work and the way things are on FAKKU. I listen to all of it and use it to improve things both on the website and with how I work. I am in no way perfect and I have never claimed to be. There are countless things I can improve about myself and with FAKKU, and hopefully I'll do both.
Red Vodka wrote...
Jacob wrote...
I honestly just don't know what needs to be re-uploaded. The first things I did was re-upload every release that I could remember that had been lost. Anything after that I am unaware of. So just post the names and whatnot here and one of us will upload it. Or if you want you can even upload them on your own.And like I said in the other topic I did donate to several translation groups, and I went to translate to your team and you mentioned donating to some Nashrakh commission thing if I recall? And the reason I have yet to do that is because I haven't had the time to look into it further, I didn't realize it would become an issue.
Can you post a list of what was lost? It'll be really helpful.
It does seem very suspicious that you didn't reupload any of our releases and haven't donated to us.
That's just you being paranoid. And no, I don't have a list of what was missing or I would have uploaded it on my own. I only uploaded things from memory, anything missing I don't remember.
Go ahead and re-upload your missing releases.
I honestly just don't know what needs to be re-uploaded. The first things I did was re-upload every release that I could remember that had been lost. Anything after that I am unaware of. So just post the names and whatnot here and one of us will upload it. Or if you want you can even upload them on your own.
And like I said in the other topic I did donate to several translation groups, and I went to translate to your team and you mentioned donating to some Nashrakh commission thing if I recall? And the reason I have yet to do that is because I haven't had the time to look into it further, I didn't realize it would become an issue.
And like I said in the other topic I did donate to several translation groups, and I went to translate to your team and you mentioned donating to some Nashrakh commission thing if I recall? And the reason I have yet to do that is because I haven't had the time to look into it further, I didn't realize it would become an issue.
Red Vodka wrote...
Sindalf wrote...
6) The reason why I stay here and upload stuff, is because that's why I scanlate hentai in the first place.
And I want you to continue doing what you do, I love your releases! I love Little White Butterflies and Team Vanilla and all your other spin-off groups. I have tremendous respect for Imari and what all of you have done. But please, if you just became slightly less arrogant you would be a lot more tolerable.
I highly doubt it. Oh yeah, I was going to mention in number 5, I want you to take a more active role in promoting translator's blogs. Of course not ours, due to obvious reasons. But I would like see more than just a hyperlink to the blog. Nobody clicks those.
My idealized vision is to see something like the stuff you see on gaming news sites, where you'll have a header with the scanlation group's logo and name, and clicking on that image sends you to their blog. IDK, maybe you can think of something more creative, but I want more than a hyperlink for scanlators.
And I want you to continue doing what you do, I love your releases! I love Little White Butterflies and Team Vanilla and all your other spin-off groups. I have tremendous respect for Imari and what all of you have done. But please, if you just became slightly less arrogant you would be a lot more tolerable.
I highly doubt it. Oh yeah, I was going to mention in number 5, I want you to take a more active role in promoting translator's blogs. Of course not ours, due to obvious reasons. But I would like see more than just a hyperlink to the blog. Nobody clicks those.
My idealized vision is to see something like the stuff you see on gaming news sites, where you'll have a header with the scanlation group's logo and name, and clicking on that image sends you to their blog. IDK, maybe you can think of something more creative, but I want more than a hyperlink for scanlators.
The one thing about Jacob is he doesn't realize what people click or see as enticing. He is a pretty terrible advertiser honestly. There are too many groups for your ideal image but plenty more can be done to revise somethings and generate extra traffic in the right direction. May I suggest a higher level of organization, labeling and sorting?
Isn't Jacob supposed to be web design or something? O.o I thought he has a generally good sense of marketing ability. Fakku is an incredibly catchy name. The site's poorly designed technically, but it's visual design is user friendly. Logo is nice too.
To flesh out my idea, the site I had in mind was the escapist magazine.
I think it'll actually be good to encourage the scanlation teams to do regular releases (like LWB used to do, and TV is currently doing). Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc.
If you create these regular "features" people might come to Fakku regularly to see them.
Not a bad idea, I'm planning on reworking the translator pages sometime in the next few weeks. Perhaps allowing a large header image linking to the blog is a good idea. I'll let you know when I start working on it.
And for the record conventions are both a lot of fun and a lot of work. Getting to meet users from around the country is what makes them fun, so it's entirely thanks to the community that I get to travel and enjoy these conventions.
Red Vodka wrote...
Waar wrote...
I mentioned money for translations, never said we owned him... Rollback lie? Unless it's something I don't even know then the information Jacob revealed is the truth. Fakku did beat gg once, and then lost the second game to a team of users koda pulled from IRC, people that had loose affiliations with gg at best. I guess I can stop being nice about it, I said we don't translate anything but "hentai", I never once said doujinshi/manga; It's not my fault you misunderstood. I never asked for your respect, what makes you think I would want such a thing? You seem to have quite a few misconceptions about Fakku; why are you still here then? If you hate our "lies" why do you still upload here? You might wanna go chill out for a bit, you're getting upset on the internet.p.s. What does the gg LOL thing have to do with this? Are you 12?
gg has nothing to do with it. It's the fact you guys have a constant track record of saying bullshit. You guys promised to donate money to the scanlators and to reupload all the lost material. Months later, that doesn't happen. You guys keep touting that you guys are number one hentai site (pretty arrogant, whether it's true or not IMHO) even though you guys can't even do basic things like multi-tag search.
And let's take another look at what you originally posted:
1. We don't translate anything but hentai, and even then it's up to our translator what we do.
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3. If you're upset about their reasoning for uploading yaoi then you should make your own scan team and upload the most vanilla stuff you can find to counter the yaoi.
4. Are you paying for Fakku? Is there a sign up fee somewhere? Why are you complaining(this is for everyone who has complained) about a free service which is now offering more? (perhaps not to you but to someone nonetheless)
Number of issues I take with your post.
Number one. You have no translators. None that are active. You commission a translator. You host blogs on your site. None of them are owned by you. You translate nothing. Don't ever say that you own us. Some of us do it for money. The great majority of us do it for fun and to give back to the hentai community.
Number two. Your free service comment. Fakku is completely created off of free content. It's content is based off of pirated scans and videos (oh, except for the licensing thing. How's that going? There hasn't been a new video after that big announcement) that's translated for free by scanlation groups. The entire hentai scene is mainly about sharing things, for free, for the community in the first place.
The reason why I stay here and upload stuff, is because that's why I scanlate hentai in the first place. To give to the community. I remember a few years ago reading Dark Age on lu.scio.us and lurking on /d/, reading Oyster and Fatal Pulse. Then a year ago, I decided that since I had the ability to translate, that I wanted to contribute something back.
Like I told Jacob, I don't give a shit what rules you enforce on your own site, and if you guys are baby eating capitalists. That's cool with me.
But don't bullshit. I hate that. Don't make arrogant claims, especially when your site has a lot of work to be done. And don't act like you're the ones who are creating the content here (as your post heavily implies, if not states). You don't. You aggregate other people's stuff.
What you and Jacob need to do, is shut up and work on the site. Go to conventions if you want to. Apparently this site can't even generate enough revenue to pay for its servers. Fine. But stop the big talk. It's annoying.
I would have replied sooner but I wanted to give you the chance to delete your post to save you some embarrassment, but it seems like you left it. So to start, I'm pretty sure that every single thing you said is wrong. And since you used my name so many times and directed your post towards me, I will answer.
To start...
1) You guys promised to donate money to the scanlators
We donated over $600 to translation groups following the rollback.
2) and to reupload all the lost material. Months later, that doesn't happen.
We reuploaded a lot of the lost material, anything not uploaded was just because I forgot what I uploaded during that period. And most translators re-uploaded their lost releases on their own. If there is anything still missing just point it out and we'll upload it!
3) "We don't translate anything but hentai, and even then it's up to our translator what we do."
I never said that, it's not true, and it's ridiculous to assume that it is. A lot of the time our translator chooses what we work on, but that's just because he is the translator and I don't involve myself with the translation team.
4) If you're upset about their reasoning for uploading yaoi then you should make your own scan team and upload the most vanilla stuff you can find to counter the yaoi.
I am not upset about uploading yaoi. In fact, Mike and I were the first people to upload yaoi! I am happy we have yaoi on the site. In fact we like just about everything (especially Mike, that guys weird I don't trust him)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE8W6qSo5pU#t=8m30s
5) You host blogs on your site. None of them are owned by you. You translate nothing. Don't ever say that you own us.
When did I ever say any of this? I host translator blogs as a means of giving back the community which I love. It's a means of protecting translators from having their blogs removed from places like Wordpress and Blogger.
6) The reason why I stay here and upload stuff, is because that's why I scanlate hentai in the first place.
And I want you to continue doing what you do, I love your releases! I love Little White Butterflies and Team Vanilla and all your other spin-off groups. I have tremendous respect for Imari and what all of you have done. But please, if you just became slightly less arrogant you would be a lot more tolerable.
7) you guys are baby eating capitalists.
My preference for delicious baby meat has nothing to do with hentai.
8) Here I am explaining why the content on FAKKU is relatively vanilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9PtBhCmIZw#t=3m41s
9) Here I am answering a question about your release of Mein Kampf (and defending it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9PtBhCmIZw#t=1m25s
10) Here we are answering a question about trying to work with the original Japanese artists
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhHO0A0kMOo
11) Here we are answering a hard hitting question about not crediting the person who paid for the original commission (something I still want to do)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcuvGr_EcL8#t=6m18s
12) Here we are talking about NTR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmQj1jdbCE#t=7m30s
13) And to finish you are right about one thing, I do need to work on the site more. There is a lot I want to do to make this place even better. Up until now I have been fairly busy with other commitments (my life) which has made progress on FAKKU slow. But instead of making posts like this why not just talk with me directly and share your thoughts on ways we can improve things?
And for everyone else I think it is very immature to complain about content. I've heard people complain about NTR, people complain about yaoi, people complain about too much vanilla. I have heard complaints about everything. Instead of complaining just wait for something you enjoy, or even better, try reading something new!
Red Vodka wrote...
you lie about beating gg in LoLhttp://www.livestream.com/hurrdurrhurr/video?clipId=pla_a4c01fe2-bd57-4978-a146-f4a7ab396486&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb
Two games. We won the first, gg won the second. No one ever said otherwise.
WHY DOES FAKKU ALWAYS LIE.
Also what was a lie about the rollback. That was me fucking up the server trying to do something new, like it always is when something breaks.
Red Vodka wrote...
I think it'll simply be better to allow bigger upload sizes. I don't know of a hentai site that breaks up tanks into individual chapters. Usually they just have one big gallery for the entire tank or volume.Can this be next on the list?
Yeah we can do that, but the idea with this feature is that groups will be releasing tank chapters gradually before they finish the whole thing.
One question I am asked constantly at conventions is, "Why is there no next chapter button when I am reading a manga?". Well I can finally say, there is now. It is currently visible for all manga that are part of a group/volume and we will be adding it to everything else (that needs one) soon.
To start things off check out Unbalance x Unbalance, one of my favorite ecchi Korean manhwa (reads from left to right).
To start things off check out Unbalance x Unbalance, one of my favorite ecchi Korean manhwa (reads from left to right).
HungLikeAZombie wrote...
Jacob wrote...
The meetup at Otakon this year was awesome!So did you bring any hookers and blow?
Of course, I never leave home without some.
The meetup at Otakon this year was awesome! We made the reservation at the restaurant for 25 people and almost 75 showed up (that's why it took a little time for them to prepare). Here's a picture we took while we were waiting outside. If you see yourself post in this topic!
I'm at Jakes place using his computer and I can't remember my pw.
No clue, you would have to ask the real Jacob
I believe so.
Rise-chan wrote...
If you were to leave FAKKU, who do you think would inherit the job of moderating this forum?No clue, you would have to ask the real Jacob
The Jesus wrote...
Has Rukia nee-chan abandoned us?I believe so.