After ~15 years of relatively plain sailing, Disqus is terminating pirate sites for violating its terms of service agreement.
After 15 years or so of relatively plain sailing, comment platform Disqus is cracking down on sites that violate its terms of service. Pirate manga and anime sites have received notifications that Disqus will no longer provide services after copyright infringement came to its attention. With evictions now spreading to sites including FitGirl Repacks and KickassAnime, it's a race against the clock to export years of chat in the 24/48 hours notice given.
Note that if your site is running on wordpress, you can just make your site a threadiverse community, and therefore people would be able to comment from either your site directly, or by using lemmy/piefed/kbin.
People have warned about this risk since disqus started getting popular. Based on my experience, no matter how nice you try to be about it, people choosing this kind of solution can give zero fucks about this, and consider that immediate convenience trumps everything. So, cheh.
Wow I just emailed MyReadingManga asking them to delete my account cause I didn't need the email anymore and I couldn't change it, and now I see this. Wonder if they're gonna get hit with the ban. RIP, hopefully they do the conversion to threadiverse to save the comments since they are a WordPress site.
I've been consuming BL, Yaoi and m/m since middle school, so I was scientifically engineered and fated to find MRM one day out of desperation. I'm also a cyber student and love looking up privacy shit for the fun of it, so I joined the fediverse. I used to be on there a lot but now I frequent AO3 more.
I felt like I was in on some crazy secret when I saw how one of the pirated manga (Tadaima Okaeri, the ABO one...) got an anime last year. Felt surreal knowing some of that stuff is actually getting published 😅
The amount of times I've helped and have been helped by people in the comments is not insignificant to be just ignored.
Especially websites like FitGirl, where you can help people fix issues with games, help them install patches and updates, and install mods on the cracked games.