RandomQuotes Wrote:Please don't be random, inappropriate, and vulgar.

Thank you

To the mod who changed my post: In defense of myself, I was responding to Woodsei's inquiry as to the Japanese meaning of AF, not randomly shouting dirty things for no reason.

[Zgarbas]

Aah. My bad! Sorry, been reading the forum sporadically and on a tiny screen.

It probably makes sense to consider closing this thread down as it is going nowhere...fast.

scooter1 Wrote:It probably makes sense to consider closing this thread down as it is going nowhere...fast.

Nowhere is a good place to go, as long as somebody wants to go there.

RandomQuotes Wrote:

RandomQuotes Wrote:Please don't be random, inappropriate, and vulgar.

Thank you

To the mod who changed my post: In defense of myself, I was responding to Woodsei's inquiry as to the Japanese meaning of AF, not randomly shouting dirty things for no reason.

I am why we can't have nice things, and I apologize.

TBH, the Japanese way was how I was reading his username from the beginning though, so I have been having more fun, even though reading it clearly wrongly.

On the AJATT thread, are there people against the AJATT idea?

I definitely don't want to pry into Khatz's personal life. Not that I could much, even if I wanted to, since I only know of him as Khatzumoto, and only have the scarcest idea of him beyond his AJATT persona. It *seems* like something might not be right there, just because he appears to have abandoned the AJATT online establishment that he built up over so many years. But I figure that he'll resurface if and when he wants to/is able to.

Being a customer of his through AJATT Plus, I was just amazed that everything was so automated and turn-key on his side of things that it was 5 months before I even realized that he was not around any more. I know that a lot of his ideas have been controversial, particularly how he has commercialized them, but his methods have been really helpful to me in learning Japanese over the last few years.

scooter1 Wrote:It probably makes sense to consider closing this thread down as it is going nowhere...fast.

Click that red X in the corner. It'll close it.

scooter1 Wrote:It probably makes sense to consider closing this thread down as it is going nowhere...fast.

Please don't. I'm oddly fascinated by this thread in a five-car-pileup kind of way.

*munches popcorn*

gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:

scooter1 Wrote:It probably makes sense to consider closing this thread down as it is going nowhere...fast.

Please don't. I'm oddly fascinated by this thread in a five-car-pileup kind of way.

*munches popcorn*

So you don't expect we're gonna get to the bottom of where Khatz is in the next few pages?

I was browsing AJATT for clues today, and noticed something subtle but interesting: there are a lot of design/functional elements that seem to have gotten fragmented over the years on the site.

For example, whenever a post is a part of a series, there is a series list that doesn’t match any design elements; there is little consistency on links opening in new tabs or in the same one; seeing how many posts don’t include and image, the related posts section has to use a random image to represent a post; etc.

Why is this important? Well, I have a theory that the site’s fragmentation might have played into Khatz’s disappearance.

Here is an archive capture of the site on September 9, 2014, back when it had two sidebars and wasn’t responsive:
Capture One

And here is a capture from Sept 21, 2014, which has the current look to the site:
Capture Two

Sometime in mid September, Khatz tried to revamp the design of AJATT and made it responsive. Then in early October, Khatz disappeared.

Did the revamp not remove the messiness as he had hoped, or maybe made things even worse? Khatz is a DIY coder. With the amount of automation and different projects AJATT encompasses, it wouldn’t surprise me if the backend of the site was a complete mess.

For the past few years, it seemed (to me at least) that new posts were rehashed concepts. Could it be that a combination of uninspired writings and a site that was still a mess after a complete revamp forced Khatz to throw up his hands and walk away?

This is just wild speculation with minimal supporting evidence, but it still might be an interesting angle to think about things...

I understand that Ruby on Rails is more resource dependent than other approaches, but one great thing is that using CSS used to be a nightmare coming back to a site you had no worked on in awhile.

I can see how the "Convetion over Configuration" approach has made the web in general more usable, because so many people are starting with common design elements. SO as the fashion changes just using the updated defined broad style allows every to look fresh without re- hand coding everything.

After doing some more creeping, I think I now know why Khatz is on hiatus.

As mentioned earlier, we shouldn't discuss Khatz's personal life. I'm not going to say what the details are, but I will say that I've found some evidence that would suggest he's had a rough 2014/15. As far as I know, no one has died, no one is terminally ill, or anything like that. He's just going through some stuff that many people have to deal with in life.

I'm sorry this post is so cryptic. If you happen to know his real full name, you'll be able to find the answer on Google (the key is to not include AJATT related keywords in your search).

Though keep in mind the creeping responsibility. Once your curiosity is sated, don't share what you've found.

Oh, I think I found it. Darn, that must be rough. No wonder he would need some time to recover...

The above was released on February this year, but it seems it was actually recorded in around 2010. In the second video Khatz mentions Ajatt + like its a new thing. Up until that point though I was thinking, woah, you guys can still talk about these topics so enthusiastically all these years later? That's awesome. But actually no.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Katyana-Ro...nt-1116749

so i saw this... which i guess is what you guys were referring to. yes he probably ran through all the money and most people didn't get fluent and wanted their money back, and now he has to cut a lot of $100 checks every month.

i respectfully see it as very responsible creeping to make sure people know what will happen on the backend of a fo-shizzle guarantee... not creepy whatsoever, more like a moral responsibility. the better business bureau doesn't cover situations like this, so it is the duty of people on the internet to police shady dealers.

dtcamero Wrote:http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Katyana-Ro...nt-1116749

so i saw this... which i guess is what you guys were referring to. yes he probably ran through all the money and most people didn't get fluent and wanted their money back, and now he has to cut a lot of $100 checks every month.

i respectfully see it as very responsible creeping to make sure people know what will happen on the backend of a fo-shizzle guarantee... not creepy whatsoever, more like a moral responsibility. the better business bureau doesn't cover situations like this, so it is the duty of people on the internet to police shady dealers.

It's not what they were refering to...

ah ok divorce, i c...

And people wonder why it is best to be completely anonymous on the internet...

Where is my Marlboro Man
Where is his shiny gun
Where is my lonely ranger
Where have all the cowboys gone

dtcamero Wrote:http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Katyana-Ro...nt-1116749

so i saw this... which i guess is what you guys were referring to. yes he probably ran through all the money and most people didn't get fluent and wanted their money back, and now he has to cut a lot of $100 checks every month.

i respectfully see it as very responsible creeping to make sure people know what will happen on the backend of a fo-shizzle guarantee... not creepy whatsoever, more like a moral responsibility. the better business bureau doesn't cover situations like this, so it is the duty of people on the internet to police shady dealers.

This is all i could find too. are you guys using 'Katyana-Rogo-Manduli' as the search name or katz rogo?

Nevermind, i found it. I'm so sorry Khatz. Keep your head up Brotha.

Can you guys just direct us to what you're talking about? Instead of being shady. Although I suppose it's just a divorce based on dtcamero's comment.

Some BYU university editorial Wrote:“If ”getting rid” of the cats would result in them being destroyed, I am against it,” said Katyana Rogo-Manduli, 19, a junior from Nairobi, Kenya, majoring in computer science. “If the university were to give homes to each one of the cats, then that would be a good thing, and I would be for it.”

Rogo-Manduli recently stopped outside the Twilight Zone to coax one of the campus cats a little closer to his hand. He said he missed his cat back home.

Unrelated, but dawww. Now I know why he had a cat in his apartment after he moved to Japan.

TheVinster Wrote:Can you guys just direct us to what you're talking about? Instead of being shady.

Askin' a creep not to be shady is like askin' my Grandma not to use Danish cookie tins for sewing supplies.

Shady4Life~~

Creepy we know you're Khatz. You can stop now.