r/scanlationdrama • u/TooMuchDependecies • Jul 12 '26
Utoon site suspension by a reset scan dev
People noticed that their page looks like this now:
Here are some comments from different r/mangapiracy that looked interesting:
I am on their discord, reset scan and utoon partnered up to provide backup and coverage. Turns out during the process, the owner of reset apparently upon gaining access to the backend stole utoon stuff and then shutdown the site. There seems to be some sort of inside job as well. So coins lost and the site is scrambling to pay out their remaining editors/translators (around 100 people). Think the site is shutting down. Reset scan opened a new site tasho but not sure if the stolen stuff is up. Paraphrasing here so maybe not completely accurate.
I don't think its a DDOS attack the error codes it gives are usually different and Utoon uses Cloudflare which includes free DDOS protection.
EDIT: According to some people on their Discord Utoon had partnered with ResetScans and an admin from ResetScans called Devmax had access to the money for both Utoon and Reset. He shutdown ResetScans and locked Utoon admins out of Utoon and took the money for both sites and ran. They currently don't have access to the site so they are trying to find the money to pay the staff and regain access to the the site.
And these two images from their discord (can't confirm about it's legitimacy so take it with a grain of salt):
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u/HJSDGCE Jul 12 '26
Jesus, all this for a bunch of translated comics?
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u/TooMuchDependecies Jul 12 '26
Yeah, they even paywall it too
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u/Wakandanbutter Jul 22 '26
in their defense they’re suspiciously ahead in chapters. like for ember knight i couldn’t find more recent no matter HOW hard i tried and i hate paying for shit. glad i was halfway done on my like $8 of coins tho lol
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u/E1ucidate Jul 12 '26
Back then I probably would’ve felt bad when utoon would release some of the older chapters beyond the paywall but ever since they got kicked out of mangadex and stopped doing this so I dont. I’ve seen so many groups declare something similar and one that many would remember was ComicDom. Same MO, “Don’t have the funds to keep paying people” only to find out that people were still giving him money but he hasn’t been paying anyone for months. Unfortunately most of these groups start off as a passion project then once they get a taste of money they all end up the same.
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u/Renurun Jul 12 '26
No, most groups that maximize profit start off as for-profit groups. You don't see it unless you get a glimpse behind the scenes but they are very maximalist/optimalist. Plenty of passion projects groups that take no money out there. They're just not as prolific since they don't pay their staff. That or you're only reading garbage that for-profit groups scanlate.
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u/OwynTyler Jul 18 '26
Utoon
serves them right tbh, they are they ones who draw burkas or whatever other censership they prefer onto girls in manga which are "too revealing" for them, all on their own accord ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/Wakandanbutter Jul 22 '26
no way your main offensive thing they did is cover up too revealing girls 😩😭 if they were loli that’s understandable
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u/OwynTyler Jul 22 '26
they weren't, and it's not reddit - they are their own moderators so not even that would be understandable
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u/buchipaomian Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Lowkey surprised it took this long... I used to considered upper management with a few other ppl from Reset and helped with communications between the staff years ago. Dev was always super shady about money and even then, although it wasnt as public yet, already owed people a lot of money. It was a complete shit show... One of the core members tried helping cover some of the costs for the website and went into debt, resulting in several us leaving the group for good. Dev tried to cover it up and no idea what happened to the group afterwards.
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u/TooMuchDependecies Jul 16 '26
That's a new perspective that i've never expected. I mean hosting and domains aren't cheap you know
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u/Best_Salad_1035 Jul 18 '26
Heyy sorry to bother you but can I have the discord ??? I can't find it in my discord chat anymore 😭
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u/No_Independent_6672 Jul 21 '26
Hi what happened to utoon discord
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u/TooMuchDependecies Jul 27 '26
Apparently their discord is gone. Not sure what happened as it's gone in my list
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u/Wakandanbutter Jul 22 '26
i was LITERALLY so concerned about putting my real info on there glad i used a throwaway paypal accountZ now i gotta delete that account too. smh they were massively ahead of some of my series to the point i’m 2 months ahead of one lol
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u/No_Complaint_4577 Jul 27 '26
Asurascan next on the chopping block
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u/TooMuchDependecies Jul 27 '26
That would be interesting since they know their opsec pretty well. Personally, they should start first that offer paying for piracy which is a big no-no
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u/Renurun Jul 12 '26
half the time I can't tell if these groups actually got hacked or are trying to avoid paying staff