A reminder that the high seas are always there
So weird, I’m old, but I still remember when Crunchyroll was part of the High Seas. It still throws me for a loop every once in awhile that it’s become a legitimate streaming service.
It becoming legit was a fucking mistake. It only became a legal option in what…2012 or something?
Looks like 2008, man, been awhile. I don’t know, I kinda think it’s a good story, a company saw a pirate site doing what it could be doing only better and instead of shutting it down, reached out and worked with them. Our alternative if crunchyroll wasn’t around would probably have been funimation being the streaming anime top dog too which feels like a darker timeline.
Apparently they were getting called out for using a LLM on the new Shikanoko anime instead of hiring a translator.
It was inevitable when they shut down the forums. They can’t be bothered with moderating user interactions.
This is a shame… Reading the comments after I watched an episode was part of the experience for me.
And they wonder why anime is pirated so much. Even the shittiest pirate site is a better experience to use than anything paid.
Indeed. Because of this change, I already cancelled the auto renew of my subscription and I started looking back at the high seas.
Are the comments really that important? The only time I ever went in them was recently to report the trolls wishing people HIV in the twilight out of focus comments
Comments were more of a bonus that I enjoyed looking at after I watched an episode. You could sometimes find some very interesting comments.
However, what they also removed is reviews. And I used that to choose what animes I was going to add to my watchlist. Without that, the website is pretty much useless, I rather watch them elsewhere if I have to use another website anyway to get the reviews.
Arrgh. To the high seas with you!
This is awful, I had a lot of laughs reading crunchy comments. In a way it was one of the biggest anime communities. Maybe we can start a lemmy for them.
Instead of employing moderators, they just nuke everything from orbit. Smooth move, ex-lax.
No interact! Only consume!
Its the same thing with “journalism” sites that also removed the comment function on articles. Its a two fold problem-solver for a business:
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You get to delete all the criticism off your site
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You don’t have to pay anyone to moderate the comments
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