Didn't they already have links to official services? I haven't bothered using the site since the great DMCA

>>290580499
I wish they'd fail, but shit things rarely fail.

>>290580725
The site has been borderline unusable today because of the spam.
They've had mangaplus, but this is on a whole other level. Azuki has some times added some themselves, but not at this level.

>>290580499
I don't think they are actually going to go full crunchyroll and I can see the value in being able to follow multiple official services on one website but
>>290580785
I could see it getting obnoxiously spammy for sure

>>290580994
won’t be long before scanlations are banned from the site at this rate
it will be a release site for official releases
won’t surprise me if they sell the site to the publishers as well

>>290580499
I think it's more that publishers are linking the first few chapters just to drum up interest. They're using it for marketing but it will never be a primary reader.

>>290580499
I just rate every manga with a 3rd party link with a 1 star feedback

I hate all of this but if it allows some very niche manga to be easily accessible...then maybe its a good thing?

>>290581289
the death of mangadex will finally allow a new scanlation hub to surface, so that's at least a good thing
weebdex pretty much had no chance because it had no traffic, and comick died because the owner was an idiot without any kind of opsec

>>290580499
never using this shithole again after that literal tranny mod on hrt tried to give a moral lecture about loli

>>290580499
I thought they already went semi legit no? You cant find any large series there anymore

>>290580994
I would buy manga if i had one place to buy it digital. Im not buying physical, i dont need more shit cluttering up my room. If anything i give stuff away.

>>290582827
>I would buy manga if i had one place to buy it digital
So what exactly is stopping you? Kobo, Bookwalker etc all have manga you read. Exclusives are rare.

>>290583226
Bookwalker doesn't work on Kobo wothout workarounds. And thats what i mean, when i buy from steam i can play it on any PC.I dont need to buy a steam deck to play steam games.

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>>290583305
But you can't play Steam games on a Switch either. Why don't you buy from Kobo if you got yourself tied into that ecosystem?

>>290582827
>I would buy manga if i had one place to buy it digital
Bookwalker, Kobo, Amazon...

>>290580785
just block the groups lil bro

>>290585476
doesn’t help the end game of removing scanlations from the site
and I’m obviously not using an account

>>290583305
I remove drm from kobo desktop with calibre/dedrm/obok, it still works

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>>290580499
I have all "Official Publishers" blocked so I don't see any spam

>>290582784
they still host literal loli porn though

>>290585990
the owners are literally doki fansubs, who translated loli porn back in the days

>>290580499
Have there been any attempts to archive the stuff that's only ever been posted there? I'm really only here because I'm worried something I might like doesn't have a copy anywhere else.

>>290583368
NTA, but Steam games are playable on any PC, Windows or Linux. Kobo is more like the Switch in that example in that it's a walled garden and you can't take your purchases with you if you ever choose to go for a different brand. This is why games from the 90s are still playable on PC with a fan patch or two and people with consoles end up purchasing the same games multiple times.

>>290586234
pretty much every worthwhile aggregators scrape automatically from mangadex

>>290580499
>we want the fakku audience

None of those links to official publishers are endorsed, so no.

>>290581289
>easily accessible
>good thing
no

>>290580785
I already blocked all the "legit" localizers. It wasn't that many to make them all disappear for 99% of the time.

dont know why people still use it, all the good series have been removed from the website

>>290586798
Most of the stuff I read is still there, so after some other sites got killed off I keep it bookmarked just in case.

>>290586798
For readers, there’s pretty much no good reason for using it.
For scanlators and uploaders on the other gand, it gets scraped automatically by pretty much all the relevant aggregators immediately. So it’s convenient to upload there.

>>290580499
Blocking the official publishers is easy to do.
What bothers me more is random indie shit seems to be getting funneled into my follow updates list recently. One or two of those I can see myself having saved them for later reads sometime previously, but I've seen a bunch of them that never would've appealed to me, somehow marked followed.
Could be some kind of glitch attributing someone else's follows to my account, but considering the new owners had such a hard on for this shit, I'm not too trusting it's that innocent.

Which script or applications do you guys use to extract your following list from Mangadex? Can you link it please?

>>290587273
>Blocking the official publishers is easy to do.
to do that you need to create an account, and really, who'd want to create an account there any more after what happened last year

>>290580499
Prediction: The anime and manga industry will continue to maintain steady quality, but the localization industrial complex will collapse soon. The amount of weebs will drastically decrease. Only a few hyper fans who crave increasingly Japanese content will remain.

>>290587610
>but the localization industrial complex will collapse soon
this is such a weird take. it's been exploding recently, especially with mtl. they make more official releases than ever

>>290580499
They used AI to implement this bs bot, now the feed is overloaded because it is updating for every single chapter.

>>290586015
The owner and original mods scanlated loli yuri doujinshi but most of them retired and the new mods are anti-fanservice trannies. One tranny mod even fought with that scanlator who liked to make edgy credit pages instead of spending time cracking down on Narutards uploading Boruto chapters on mangadex, despite a site warning about avoiding uploads of Viz America licensed manga due to their DMCA spamming. Those Boruto chapters are what caused mangadex to get kicked out by cloudflare through pressure from Viz America.

>>290587650
Exploding as in the lockdown tourists have been leaving in large quantities since around 23 or 24 and all the sterile shit they chose to mass import is increasingly useless. All while the popular online free sites are ran by redditors who are slowly destroying them. Soon enough, it will all go back to something you have to try a bit harder to find and thus only weebier weebs will remain. What we will gained from this though is that enjoying Japanese content has become socially acceptable, they gave us this and ultimately fucked off, so not all situations are completely terrible.

Also, you have to be a next level retard to implement a feature the community didn't ask for.
No one wants to know about licensed shit.

>>290580499
>streaming manga

>>290588456
Yeah we poorfags don't have money to buy HDDs now. Oh we wait, neither do you.

>>290588325
I'm reading Illya right now. I've seen her ass, hints of her nipples, the most a teen manga can get away with of pussy, hell I've even seen her asshole. So they at least aren't purging lolicontent for the time being. Although it does seem like they might suppress it. I remember once searching the site on Google and one of the little tabs under it was for the search results of loli, speaking of how used that part of the domain is. But if you went to the actual site you'd think everyone was chinks and fags. Did something happen that curbed the mod? Or are xey just not bold enough yet to start a war against the most lucrative sector of the animanga consumers?

>>290580499
>Comikey
I can't escape it

>>290580499
>Le disgusting insect girl cheebee
>Womp Womp
>Joined 2023
>Message count that suggests terminal onlineness localized to a forum of a manga piracy site
>Talking like some pseudoprofessional faggot
I am so grateful for our biological ability to categorize and spot enemies.

>>290588375
well then again noone wanted their original content either, but they've still been pushing it hard

>>290588375
I want. But I have torrents for this.

Jewcob wannabees ruin an aggregator.
I wish comix wasn't infested with korean cancer, it would be a good alternative.

>>290588929
yeah, pretty much all licensed stuff I either torrent with nyaa, or I read from weebcentral
considering pretty much everything except manga plus is geo blocked, I don't really have much of a choice either

>>290580499
I checked it out and it's all pay to read shit.

>>290588961
>I wish comix wasn't infested with korean cancer, it would be a good alternative.
I pretty much just turn manhua, mahnwa, and western comics off when I use comix. makes it completely usable. though it annoys me that they resize and recompress releases, especially when it's completely uneccessary

>>290588853
>~1100 messages in 3 years
That's like 1 post every day. Compared to Mongolian throat singing forum, this is literally nothing...

>>290588375
But supporting le dev- er I mean mangaka is wholesome 100. Sure you will end up buying overpriced figures, BDs, imported volumes, etc. But imagine the poor little in-between companies that don't get to siphon most of the revenue selling you a service useless in the age of global online shipping. We must throw our (large) weight behind these companies to be better men of culture.

>>290586400
Kinda reminds me of the good ol days before you could filter by country of origin.
Bilibili used to spam their Manwhaws every day for months. Imagine five 300 chapter series uploading 1 chapter each every 15 to 30 minutes with a near endless flow of these trash comics. Shit was bad.

>>290589020
the only way I'm supporting the mangaka's is by buying the Japanese raws manga volumes, and that's because I don't want their series to be axed
not going to buy any merchandise when it's so ridiculously expensive shipping and tolls

>>290589035
iirc it took a while before you could do that on comick, and even so their most popular works list didn't respect this and showed you manhwa regardless

>>290589209
I "love" how Comick has such dogshit organization that several manga have gotten their existences taken over on the site by some dogshit Manwhaw because they have the same or similar names.
Nothing better than opening up a manga you think is interesting and seeing fucking longstrip and a completely different artsyle

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>decide to read overlord finally (i dropped it at chapter 30 because i wasn't feeling it
>mangadex was the page i was using to read it
>its gone
oh well

>>290589361
Don't worry, you're not missing much.

>>290580499
This actually helped me out because there was a manga I'd completely forgotten about since it got licensed and the scanlator dropped it. Apparently they had quickly caught up and the officials are getting ripped.

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>>290580499
That's actually very convenient to check whether the series should be migrated to madokami or the uploaders are just dead.

More importantly what the fuck is this shit about?
Are groups that repeatedly get their shit deleted permabanned now?
I thought allowing uploads of new chapters regardless of deleted old chapters was intended loophole.

>>290586234
>you can't take your purchases with you if you ever choose to go for a different brand.
You can still use Kobo on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac. It also works via Wine on GNU/Linux. The main thing it really won't work on is Amazon Kindle.

>>290589306
you might be thinking about nucomick, yet another nubatoto clone with zero organization effort or moderation beyond deleting anything owners consider icky.
the real comick is now a tracking/monitoring site without reader (like mangaupdates) and it's still perfectly organized and maintained.

>>290589663
And if you bought an ebook on Kobo 10-15 years ago it will still be available on the newer generation Kobo e-readers.

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>>290589470
I was upset that pic was dropped by the TL, then immediately the next day first chapter shows up under "official" licensing. Now I know why it was dropped.

>>290589604
>Are groups that repeatedly get their shit deleted permabanned now?
if over 30 chapters you've uploaded get dmca removed, you get permabanned. not even joking

>>290589663
I mainly use kobo, pretty much everything I buy I remove drm from with calibre/dedrm/obok so I can read it anywhere.

>>290589792
working on licensed series is pretty much a waste of time, so it's not weird that they dropped it

>>290589814
Even then you need extra steps to read on Kindle compared to other devices. Kindles are far more of a walled garden than Kobo. On Kobo e-readers you can simply install other reader software like Koreader while Kindle depends on jailbreaks that aren't always available.

>>290587610
There is no localization industrial complex for manga that could collapse. Only 10% of new manga gets translated and even less for old series, and that's without considering translation quality or release speed. Anybody that actually cares has to learn Japanese.

I blocked all of them today

>entire first two pages are kmanga
jesus fucking christ

>>290590079
There seems to be some concerted effort to force Korean and even some Chinese things into Japanese hobby spaces. Nothing wrong with liking other things, but I do know that these cultures tend to make things more "safe" to a certain crowd. I kind of wonder if it is akin to a colonist setting up a home in a new land.

>>290589793
what the fuck? since when? did they change their retarded rules or something? I am not seeing anything like that.

>>290590312
I'm not entirely sure where it's stated, but it's true according to grogzilla.

>>290589793
How permabanned? Will they sperg out and ban you again if you just make a new account?

>>290590005
It just reminds me of time and time again when you hear an anime announced and apparently it was yet another best seller in Japan that we were denied for some reason. The types who do most of the translation are already unsavory types. Makes you really wonder how much stuff they are holding away from us to focus on random bullshit because something in it offends their sensibilities or just because they have bad taste. It feels like the outlook on manga has become worse as the unsavory types flooded this hobby. Good stuff still comes, but we only become aware of it when it is absolutely too big to ignore. I hate having to deal with cultural bucket crabs. I must learn Japanese to achieve true manga gnosis.

>>290590435
I'm not sure, but I don't think so. At least grog hinted about that.

>>290590458
>I must learn Japanese to achieve true manga gnosis.
https://mega.nz/folder/Y7lSjRoS#uCo2HM9aYhjdl9f44YujYA

>>290590427
But that doesn't make sense. If my uploads suddenly got DMCAd, how is that my fault? It's not like I knew I was going to get DMCAd

Besides, who is grogzilla?

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>>290590682
>Besides, who is grogzilla?
he's one of the mods on mangadex

>>290590771
Why are the people in charge of all this type of shit online so hopelessly retarded?

>>290590806
jannies don't in general know anything, they're just free slaves
doesn't exactly come as a surprise that they're kept in the dark

>>290590771
This specific conversation seems to have been deleted or something from the MD server because I can't find it, but the 30 strikes discussions are there

When the great DMCA happened there were like four different anons who said they were building a replacement site, where the fuck are they all

>>290591094
Those anons have been reduced to atoms

>>290591166
Daiz must be stopped

>>290580783
they already failed
half of upload groups are gone
those that stayed upload half of the series they did
also "new" chapters get constantly acked on dex

>>290588641
some loli manga and doujinshi got nuked
at least those that i had tabs on

>>290591075
it's in osis channel

>>290591094
I think they made a logo and that's it.

>>290591340
There is no osis channel. wtf you talking about? you sure it is in the MD server?

>>290591548
it's the discord server for osisnie
it's not in the mangadex server

>>290591548
https://discord dot gg/3qQkGc6w7T

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>>290590771
It appears that it may be account based and not IP based

>>290591709
yeah, pretty much use vpn and make a new account, no biggie

Is this like the retarded torrent faggots? I don't get it who even cares about mangadex? There's a shitton of other websites who have pretty much everything

>>290591800
the only ones who really cares are the scanlators and uploaders, as it's convenient to upload to mangadex since doesn't alter the files, and it gets scraped by all the relevant aggregators in seconds
for readers, they're most likely better off using other sites
for torrents, it's pretty much just enough using nyaa and subsplease

>>290591321
We must find a way to purge cute aggression out of the world. These "people" are RIDICULOUS. Many such cases.

Has there been any other reliable uploading site like Mangadex? What about Comix? Does it function the same as Mangadex regarding uploading and altering the uploads if required such as decensored chapters and all?

>>290590458
Most manga translators barely know Japanese and are largely oblivious to what's released in Japan since they don't read magazines or check official sites. They'll focus on low level content since that's easier to translate and has more mass market appeal.

>>290589450
nah. i was just using mangadex because it seems usefull, i found some other page to read it and will find other webpage for other shit a friend advice me to read
i like the characters and thats it

>>290591977
the issue is that all that the other sites except weebdex alters the uploads
comix reduce the resolution and quality
not sure if you have editing rights on comix, but I sort of doubt it. if it's out, it's out
right now there's not an awful lot of alternatives. you need to get special permission from comix, and it's pretty restricted.
otherwise you've got places like mangago, mangatato, mangaball but they're not exactly great
people are still using mangadex for uploads since it's the most convenient, and most likely there won't be a replacement until mangadex is dead or doesn't allow scanlations anymore, which is more likely how it's going lately
there's pretty much only place for one scanlation hub like weebdex showed us, so there's probably not going to be a replacement before mangadex is gone

>>290591982
In some ways I wish that Japanese companies would make it easier for us to directly receive magazines. But in other ways, it is good that Japan can still maintain a large domestic entertainment medium without even having to care about outside audiences. I sort of also can larp like I'm an Early Modern European trying to keep the Bible Latin.

>>290591982
even the quality of stuff in japanese magazines is quite poor these days

>>290594214
Weren't most magazines heavily carried by popular series that all have their author's getting sick around the same time nowadays? Most of the rest was always filler. It will be kind of interesting to see how the industry adapts to investing so much into franchises ultimately controlled by writers that may not always feel up to regular new content. I do notice that anime driven projects with the guidance of the original creator are a lot more common nowadays. But this doesn't help the manga industry that relies on the new chapters. Although, since it is so decentralized it isn't like the stagnation of some matters to most of the rest. But you still need some kingmakers to drive future and continued franchises to keep a greater multimedia system running. You can't just mill out isekai and generic highschool drama #n. Perhaps magazines and anime studios should force key mangaka to eat healthy and sleep regular hours so sickness rates decline.

>>290593974
>In some ways I wish that Japanese companies would make it easier for us to directly receive magazines.
How much easier do you need it? Subscriptions have made it extremely convenient to read dozens of magazines even if you don't read every single series in them.

>>290594499
>>290594214
Which magazines do you actually read? Sick authors aren't a universal issue.

I won't be using it, but I am all for a manga hub that encapsulates all the scattered manga streaming services

>>290594778
Is there an actual reason why they don't also do it for all the legitimate Japanese services?

>>290594499
The only filler in magazines is reprinted chapters and similar promotions.

>>290594778
Someone should find a way to hook up and AI to just scrape the shit out of the internet and assemble a collection based off of all the different sites with smart automatic tagging and such. Could probably even be done in an afternoon, but I am a lazy hypocrite so I'm not doing it.

>>290596545
whwn someone says it can be done in an afternoon, you know it's a two year job at least

>>290580499
I stopped using it when they limited the amount you can read without signing in

>>290599986
Just read in incognito, copy url, close incognito, open it again, and insert the url. It takes at most 2 seconds, it isn't like 4chan where it tracks your IP.

>>290587567
If you're that determined not to make an account, you should've ditched the site a long time ago, when you realized RSS feeds were never going to be re-implimented for the public.

>>290594499
only a handful of manga in magazines are actually scanlated or officially translated otherwise, it's pretty much only for the big weekly shounen magazines that all of the series are translated, and even weekly shounen sunday and champion have most of their stuff untranslated. if you pick up a random monthly magazine most of the series there aren't translated anywhere. and then we haven't talked about the online readers, which have even less manga translated. I'd guess less than 10 percent of all manga get translated
granted if you actually do what I just wrote, you'll quickly figure out that most of them are trash, and that's why they haven't been translated in the first place. there is a really, really big amount of utter trash not worth translating. you pretty much only see the best ten percent manga

>>290594517
The bookwalker subscription is pretty decent. Though I must admit I mostly just download magazines from public raws places these days, I'm not really working on anything anymore so I don't bother paying for it.

>>290580785
Simple answer to that.
Go to whatever group's mangadex site (Comikey for example) and on their main page click the block button under where the user portrait usually is.

>>290600353
I only log in when I upload my scanlations, and then I use vpn. I'm not going to bother with using vpn on a daily basis, only when uploading things like that.

>>290600744
>Go to whatever group's mangadex site (Comikey for example) and on their main page click the block button under where the user portrait usually is.
have to make an account to do that buddy, who'd want to have an account there after what transpired May last year

>>290600666
Even most of that ten percent is shit then, Lucy-chan. I still feel like there are some things that go under the radar because of translators being retards who desperately don't want certain things to be popular. I expect most of the things that hit as multimedia sensations to be stuff unknown in the West before adaptation.

>>290580499
Why should I care when I can dl all the manga I want whenever I want without putting a single foot in any website?

That shitty pajeet site wiped my reading history for several manga, and now I don't know which chapter I left off on

>>290601639
As has been pointed out multiple times, it mostly affects uploaders. You can't dl manga that hasn't been uploaded anywhere, and the only really accessible "anywhere" is mangadex.

>>290602022
You can't dl manga that hasn't been uploaded anywhere
It has been uploaded somewhere.

>Becoming an official publishers aggregator
Laame
>Official publishers still have their own rules and monetization so all MD does is linking it to them
Mega lame

>>290602187
most likely it was their plan all along, they just used scanlations to gain popularity and being known
like, the name is manga index for fucks sake

>>290602056
>It has been uploaded somewhere.
by far the most scanlators upload to mangadex
even if you use mihon or whatever to download from mangafire or comix or wherever, those sites have ripped those releases of mangadex
without mangadex or a scanlation hub, you're not going to get any of your favorite mangos

>>290602056
You're not going to find it if it's only available on some unknown scanlator's blogspot, dude.

>>290602325
it was borderline impossible to find anything when a ton of groups left mangadex and only posted their stuff on their discord
luckily most of them came back to mangadex or started posting on comic or whatever, but it was a period of time when it was pretty difficult to find a lot of stuff

>>290600985
>I still feel like there are some things that go under the radar because of translators being retards who desperately don't want certain things to be popular.
I sort of doubt this to be honest. Anything that somewhat decent usually get a translation. Might take a while until the first volume is out for people to notice it, but it's seldom something good goes unnoticed for a long time.

>>290602255
>he thinks uploaders stop uploading if mangadex stops letting them upload

>>290602523
a pretty big amount of scanlators are going to quit when mangadex stops allowing uploads. it's just how it is
I'm probably going to use several less known sites lite comix, mangago, mangataro, mangaball etc as a stopgap until a new scanlator hub that gets scraped immediately arrives like mangadex, and just post it on reddit or something. but it's definitely not going to be as uploading on a site that gets immediately scraped by all the aggregators. it's on hundreds of sites within minutes

>>290580499
That is good news coming from /a/'s longtime beloved manga site.

>>290602230
>Index nameake is because the sites is 'indexing' all of the publicly-shared scanlations, and not because the original owner is a lolicon and fan of Toaru series
What kind of historical revisionism is this shit?

>>290580499
WE STILL DON'T HAVE A NEW MANGADEX!!! AND WE LOST SO MANY TRANSLATORS AFTER THE PURGE

>see updates on series I haven't ever seen get translated but I followed hoping one day
>K Manga
>Make an account
>reading chapters requires "points" or tickets
>either buy points or install malware on your phone
What the actual fuck is this garbage?

>>290602976
surprise, manga actually isn't free and is something you have to pay for. scanlations lied to you all this time

>>290603279
Wrong.

>>290580499
About time that place died.

>>290600792
Whether or not there's a reason to make an account, that shouldn't be one to matter. No one should be putting an email or password there used elsewhere, so all that would happen would mean losing the account at most.

>>290604897
Just use tempmail

>>290592891
But weebdex is already dead isn't it? Wasn't it by Schale Network?

>>290588641
they went the f95 route and selectively removed the loli content that they don't like while keeping the rest.

>>290581103
Yeah, it took a whole generation of white haired executives and CEOs dying for them to finally understand that the best way to have piracy under some degree of control and oversight is to put the boot on the biggest site out there, not too strong enough to kill it, because of hydra, but enough for it to provide useful marketing and promotional information, as well as not put up a fight when DMCA takedowns come around.

It going "legit" would kill the site, it happened with Crunchy (until it got bought out by Sony), it happened with MangaHelpers. There's no legal business that would be able to compete with the offering piracy has. Doing that would start the rat hunt all over again. I like to believe that they've been mastering the art of keeping the leash just tight enough so people don't bail on them just like the feds and pedophiles on 4chan

Late

>>290602605
wont be sorry to see the people who translate shit like >>290589792 quit
sadly that seems to be most of you lot these days

>>290610537
When are you going to learn?

>>290602976
you know there are dozens of sites that upload those same scans in the same quality as the official site, right?

>>290582827
Same, I do buy from kobo, but...
>>290583226
>>290585388
...it takes months if not years for there to be enough chapters translated chapters before I can buy a tank on kobo, and the vast majority of weekly manga is absolute shite not worth paying for at all and the good stuff is spread across so many publishers that having subscriptions to them all is not worth the expense.

>>290581383
Don't even bother with a central hub any more, we've been burned too many times.
https://malsync.moe/

>>290611538
>good stuff is spread across so many publishers that having subscriptions to them
Subscriptions like Bookwalker aren't limited to a single publisher. They have mags from Kadokawa, Akita Shoten, Shonengahosha, Futabasha, Hakusensha, Bunkasha and more.
Comic Days is only for Kodansha but for 960 yen per month you still get three weekly and fifteen monthly mags. Either one of them is likely more manga than you can practically read. You don't have to read weekly manga at all

>>290611740
I can't read moon anon, what good is a bookwalker subscription to me?

>>290612309
If that's the real problem then you're the only one that can fix it.

>>290602517
And yet Vampire Dies in No Time isn't caught up yet...

>>290612683
it's in weekly shounen champion, most of the works in that magazine aren't translated, only a handful

>reading this thread
from a scale of the-end-of-an-age to lol-lmao how delibitating is mangadex's decline to scanlations at large in the grand scheme of things?

>>290615350
Mangadex is THE big hub scanlators upload to, so bans and restrictions make things worse for everyone. The best thing would be for it to die and get replaced by a less faggy site.

>>290615350
at this point it's more cancer than helpful
several groups are banned from posting on mangadex because mangadex think they're some kind of authority of what should be allowed or not
it'd be better if mangadex died and some more level headed site took over

>>290615899
>Mangadex is THE big hub scanlators upload to
WAS, Dex is a husk of his former self.

>>290611538
>>290612309
You don't know Japanese but somehow you're an expert on weekly manga.

>>290615350
>The thing OP mentions
To readers - more good than harm actually, to scanlators - irrelevant
>The other thing discussed
The mask is slipping
>Overall state
Rotting zombie that should just die already and allow any other place to take over
>>290616323
Still the default place for scanlators
What else are they going to use? Literally who sites with limited upload capabilities and terrible compression? Wordpress+mega? Discord?

>>290607246
>the best way to have piracy under some degree of control and oversight is to put the boot on the biggest site out there
Or they could actually provide a service that doesn't suck shit. Outside of /a/, most people would be willing to pay for a reasonably priced legal way to read manga online if it actually had anywhere near the amount of choice and convenience that MangaDex provided.
But making a worthwhile product is hard, so the geriatric corpos with no knowledge of how the internet works just shut down the competition instead.

>>290580499
I just blocked them so they don't clog my update feed.

>>290616224
Some groups that are paywalling chapters should have their sites taken down too. That problem has only spread as some have gotten away with it. Removing them from mangadex has obviously not done anything there.

>>290618577
it's retarded to fight in the first place, it should be up to the people to not be idiots in the first place. mangadex goofed up hard there

>>290617809
You forget to mention that it has to be translated. Because somehow people that deep into manga that the licensed products aren't enough for them still refuse to learn Japanese.

>>290618922
Compromise and let them post chapters there but add in extra warnings to not give them money.

>>290619021
thay was my suggestion but the mangadex mods ignored it completely
paying for piracy is a scam

Van we just build something on top of bittorrent? Like for each series or scanlator use a simple txt that contains a list of magnet links to chapters. Then the txt itself could live in ipfs/ipns where the scanlators can update it (ipfs is too slow to have the chapters themselves, I tried that already).
No websites, other people can make their own collections using the magnet links for chapters from others.
Just a local software that can track the txt files and then connect to the user's torrent client of choice.

>>290620132
it's not convenient enough, just like irc xdcc died out

bump

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Where do people even read manga nowadays? IDC if it's in English or Japanese, but it feels like the only way to find manga to read besides paying for some app like WSJ is getting torrents on nyaa

>>290622480
official releases from weebcentral or nyaa
scanlations from comix and mangafire
you can also use mihon I guess

>>290622507
Thanks, and what exactly is mihon for

>>290622546
it downloads the chapters from several places so you can be offline and read them

>>290622507
>official releases from weebcentral
Terrible, a lot of times they mess up the pages or they are lower quality.
>scanlations from comix and mangafire
Comix images are lower quality and manga fire get error pages all the time

>>290622480
Bookwalker, Kobo, DMM, DLsite

>>290620954
It could have a built-in viewer

>>290620954
i feel like a noob but irc's are still frequently used on the web?

>>290623175
no, probably less than 1 percent of what it used to be
discord has pretty much replaced it
still there are some xdcc bots for anime around

these retards think just because their parent company is affiliated with visa this childporn filled with underage scanlators is also supported by visa? get me a lawyer

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>>290580499
More like finally dying

>>290580499
Fuck them

>>290581289
Kill yourself shill

>>290581383
>the death of mangadex will finally allow a new scanlation hub to surface
Yeah, like fucking weebdex which died before it even really launched and had a whole rewrite planned

>>290616224
It takes a lot to get banned from mangadex. Honestly if they'd gotten rid of manwha after the first scare we probably wouldn't have had the giant DMCA wave that heavily damaged the site.

>>290625049
weebdex died because of no traffic and exploding server costa because of ram and hdd prices right after launch. it never had a chance to begin with. comick survived because of the massive exodus from mangadex, but died because of the owner’s incompetence

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everything is slowly getting removed from mangadex. what's the next best site to replace it?

>>290626008
Make a new one that features JS and JK nipples in the header.

>>290625533
Comick was a nothingburger
Weebdex did have a chance but the server costs killed it

Thing is, since then we haven't even seen a single attempt
Give it up, corpos won

>>290626469
>Give it up, corpos won
yeah, that's not happening

>>290580499
I hope everyone finds a better alternative already. Why the fuck is anyone using mangadex?

>>290626556
because batoto died

When mangadex went down the first time I pretty happily just cut manga out of my routine. This sort of half-death un-life thing it's doing is annoying as hell, I wish it'd just die or disappear.

Read the writing on the wall.
Piracy is a dying medium. Corporations always get their way in the end, especially as the internet is being increasingly locked down. Already in the EU and certain US states, you are required by law to have digital ID on every website. Just accept that the wild west is dead.

>>290580499
so what's the alternative to this shit?

>>290626600
I wish regulation would at least have some perks but there never are any.

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>>290626751
>Can I read manga for free?
>lol no
>So you've killed convenience. But can I at least pay for it to read it all online?
>also no.

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>>290626523
It quite literally is happening
Pirate their shit all you want but the fan translators are losing the war with no hub to post on and soon enough all you'll be able to read in english is rips of officially licensed trannylations

And even then unfortunately not everything gets ripped, like Coolmic licensed stuff
I wanted to read picrel https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/1sgkcht/chitchai-kimi-ga-dekkai-watashi-o-onbu-shite but no rips for it exist

>>290626904
>I wanted to read picrel
depressing what has happened to the userbase of this board

>>290622603
Well there's no alternatives atm and I'm sure as fuck not using dex.

>>290627285
>NOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T READ SERIES BY HENTAI AUTHORS YOU JUST CAN'T
STFU bitch

Is the site down for anyone else?

>>290628353
works on firefox.

I still get phishing mail and people trying to log into my accounts because of the hack. Mangadex should at least not delete my manga to atone for their sins.

>>290625533
How would low traffic kill it? That should be easier to run.

>>290626008
living in japan

>>290580499
Mangadex needs to fucking die already. they fucked up and are half dead so no one is making a new site like usual.

>>290611740
Did we ever get another channel for the bookwalker and comic days rips?

>>290582784
Lolifags deserve it.

>>290586234
Never owned any device aside from a Kindle. I rip Kobo books in Calibre. It's super-easy.

>>290631524
What's the advantage? Manga is more and more digital only.

>>290604928
Current generation just doesn't seem to use throwaways. I'd had a few hundred, sometimes multiple signups to a single site (before places started blocking temp mails and jewgle/hmail/yahoo etc put roadblocks in like a phone number/existing mail).

>>290618964
we're fast approaching a world where translation isn't a meaningful barrier and any device you read it on can pretty accurately translate it on its own
Really doubt we have 5 years to go until translation software becomes functionally flawless and they can just straight up offer things without translation

>>290580499
>can't even read 5 chapters without an account before it bitches
I doubt anyone uses this dogshit anyway.

>>290589828
Scanslators won't
>Work on a series already translated
>Work on a series 'officially' translated
>Work on a series someone else is working on even if it hasn't been updated in 6 months
>Work on a series machine translated by an EOP
>Finish if the series isn't popular
Scanslators are a fickle sort.

>>290635964
Too optimistic. Even with the best models and 50usd in token now you can’t generate a mistake free script for just one chapter.

>>290636276
We're not even 5 years out from the launch of ChatGPT and the start of the AI """boom""", 5 more years is a lot of time my man

>>290636357
Translation is something hard to do RLVR on due to the insurmountable cost of quality data, even RSI on the coding front won’t solve this.

>>290636417
it's already working "good enough" for cross country twitter convos right now, I really doubt it'll do anything but progress.

Maybe the reason they're flooding the site is to get people to sign up and log in so they can block the official publishers? To increase the user count for when they're going to sell the site. The site has pretty much been unusable the past three days.
But then again they're pretty much getting people fed up with the site to find somewhere else, so I really hope it backfires completely.

>>290636268
First two are fine, third is case by case basis, fourth is annoying (and it can be far worse than EOPs, most MTLs are by people who read neither Japanese nor English)

5 is definitely unjustifiable unless the series fell off a cliff quality wise

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>>290591268
The worst thing is that scanlators assume that no chapters = can't upload so they don't bother and less thing is getting translated

>>290586234
>Have there been any attempts to archive the stuff that's only ever been posted there? I'm really only here because I'm worried something I might like doesn't have a copy anywhere else.
Seems like MangaFire has most of chapters that used to be in MangaDex, even if they're not in original quality
recently I wanted to read Yamada-san but first few chapters got removed from MangaFire for some reason so I had to go through all the new vibecoded manga sites on FMHY like https://kagane.to or https://atsu.moe or https://mangadot.net to finally find it on https://onisaga.com/manga/mii-chan-to-yamada-san