Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[tusabe]

Today Mangadex ended for me.

I came here to organize the books I have already read and want to read.

Since they are deleting the links to the works, this does not even serve as an organizational list.

 

[RogueKitsune]

I want the content back.
I want to know who initiated this (the so called "legal nexus"
I want the Admins or whoever is in charge to improve on communication (= Make announcements before you do something, not just halfassed damagecontrol attempts afterwards. Stop beatin around the bush : "call a spade a spade" / Ross und Reiter nennen.
no corpoesque vagueposts, please.

I doubt the content is coming back.
There is a reason it's being removed otherwise the powers that be wouldn't have done anything.

If anyone agrees with those reasons, is another topic.

 

[CharaDotArchivist]

I doubt the content is coming back.
There is a reason it's being removed otherwise the powers that be wouldn't have done anything.

If anyone agrees with those reasons, is another topic.

from my perhaps lack of understanding, it was a singular rogue admin who did this. unfortunately we know fuck all about how MD mods work behind the scenes, but if EN gets booted, i think the content MAY come back.

who knows, though

 

[RogueKitsune]

from my perhaps lack of understanding, it was a singular rogue admin who did this. unfortunately we know fuck all about how MD mods work behind the scenes, but if EN gets booted, i think the content MAY come back.

who knows, though.

While Neko's response may have been "rogue". The removal of titles is not something they can just do. Something happened that warranted the removal of titles from the site according to "the higher ups".

What that something is remains unknown to the public. This is part of the lack of communication problem.

 

[VladTheImpaler]

If you can hear us Dex-chan, please save us

 

[Tscheddov]

While Neko's response may have been "rogue". The removal of titles is not something they can just do. Something happened that warranted the removal of titles from the site according to "the higher ups".

What that something is remains unknown to the public. This is part of the lack of communication problem.

the dubious "legal nexus" no one is willing to call by its name.

i start to think it doesnt exist and this truly came from within the platform itself (not neko)
or its because paymentprocessors started to make trouble (like they did with fakku in december)
or its because of compatibility issues with advertisements/ adnetworks


otherweise why not just come clean and say :

we received a letter from enter name of organization or group regarding certain content insert list of affected titles
and were forced to remove it because enter whatever stupid so called reason was given by the sender

 

[Tscheddov]

Today Mangadex ended for me.

I came here to organize the books I have already read and want to read.

Since they are deleting the links to the works, this does not even serve as an organizational list.

you could cancel your support for the time being. some of us already did it because of this mess.
maybe this will be a sign of protest that is hard enough to be not ignored or taken lightly

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

While Neko's response may have been "rogue". The removal of titles is not something they can just do. Something happened that warranted the removal of titles from the site according to "the higher ups".

What that something is remains unknown to the public. This is part of the lack of communication problem.

In this case it's less of a lack of communication, but more that there is legal trouble afoot. It is common knowledge that you shut up in such situations. (A certain someone didn't seem to understand that. I imagine they get a lot of shit behind closed doors for that in addition to their idiotic post.)
I expect there to be an official statement at a later date, but how long that takes I cannot tell, being just a user.

 

[Nekomizus]

you could cancel your support for the time being. some of us already did it because of this mess.
maybe this will be a sign of protest that is hard enough to be not ignored or taken lightly

Didn't crunchyroll fake a "glitch" when people started unsubbing en masse? I wonder if they're gonna do the same.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Didn't crunchyroll fake a "glitch" when people started unsubbing en masse? I wonder if they're gonna do the same.

You really believe that the Mangadex team could implement something like that?
Not even for amorality, but this seems to be already limited by the technical challenge. The site doesn't have username changes despite it not being a feature that the devs decline.
Also, you can go to your bank and tell them to not accept any charges from that account, I think. Not sure how it is in other countries

 

[Bentoki]

I feel like 99% of all the content on mangadex should be removed. If you are asking people to agree that they are the copyright owner when uploading something, when this is first and foremost a scanlation website, people clearly do not have those rights...

Further, if you are going to be removing such content, why haven't you deleted like 99% of the website founder's uploads?

There are also reports of mods granting inactivity requests for inactive groups, thus allowing power uploaders to re-upload all of their content (who also do not have the rights to the content), and staff not really responding to requests to have their groups permanently re-locked. It doesn't really seem like you are taking your position as protecing copyright seriously.

 

[Nekomizus]

You really believe that the Mangadex team could implement something like that?
Not even for amorality, but this seems to be already limited by the technical challenge. The site doesn't have username changes despite it not being a feature that the devs decline.
Also, you can go to your bank and tell them to not accept any charges from that account, I think. Not sure how it is in other countries

If they already wanna go down the same road as CR I don't see why they wouldn't try.

 

[NeoRetro]

Well, that just killed the site for me.
I'm cancelling my subscription too, maybe I will come back if they revert these changes but I doubt that will happen

 

[popo53414]

Please don't put account deletion system behind a paywall. At least not for the forum.

 

[MajinChainsawDihh]

You all are getting mad at the site. You should be getting mad at the group creating the problem in the first place, and that is the evangelical christians in the US that think they can dictate their preferences over everyone but themselves. This is the same group that claims 'my body, my choice" when it comes to vaccines, but "your body, my choice" when it comes to sex, abortions or anything else they don't like. They claim to be small government, then promptly shove the government into every facet of your life.

For example, Texas. Strict abortion ban. Then sues other states to get information on Texas residents that traveled to get an abortion. Then you have the elephant in the room, SB 20, that went into effect in Sept 2025. Do I believe it is unconstitutional, yes I do. But to get it declared by a court, you have go through the legal process and multiple levels of appeals, as I guarantee that the Texas AG will fight for it, regardless of the merits. And don't forget this is a criminal matter, not a civil matter. Between that and US courts deciding they have jurisdiction regardless of how removed the defendant may be from that court, and you start to understand how the reluctance of the staff of MD to being the canary about the legality of this law.

Spoiler: Relevant section from SB 20

(b) A person commits an offense if the person:
(1) knowingly possesses, accesses with intent to view,
or promotes obscene visual material containing a depiction that
appears to be of a child younger than 18 years of age engaging in
activities described by Section 43.21(a)(1)(B), regardless of
whether the depiction is an image of an actual child, a cartoon or
animation, or an image created using an artificial intelligence
application or other computer software; or
(2) uses an image of an actual child younger than 18
years of age at the time the image was made with the intent to train
an artificial intelligence model to produce visual material
constituting child pornography under Section 43.26.
(c) An offense under this section is a state jail felony,
except that the offense is:
(1) a felony of the third degree if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the person has been previously convicted
one time of an offense under this section or Section 43.23, 43.26,
43.261, or 43.262; or
(2) a felony of the second degree if it is shown on the
trial of the offense that the person has been previously convicted
two or more times of an offense under this section, Section 43.23,
43.26, 43.261, or 43.262, or any combination of those offenses.
(d) If conduct constituting an offense under this section
also constitutes an offense under another law, the actor may be
prosecuted under this section, the other law, or both.

Now, if you have the finances and wherewithal to fight this in court, it's easy. Just create a Texas hosted site featuring underage manga characters and don't hide your information as the domain holder. Then you can spend the next several years fighting through the appeals process, and it can take a decade or more depending on how many times it gets sent back to lower courts.

The above is my guess based on what I've seen, though it could be a different legal issue. Same result regardless.

So you can stop bitching that the staff are protecting themselves. Does it suck, yes, but it's more of an annoyance to me than anything else, just like the DMCA nuke last year. And if this is the hill you are willing to die on, why are you still bitching on the forums here, just move on for fucks sake.

Nice blameshift there lad

 

[Whoareyou_vl]

Really? Just remove the whole website already because every manga/comic are violate "legal reasons" and noone will use this website after "purge titles" anyway

 

[muffin42]

I don't even care about getting my reading list, I just want to know when account deletion will be back online so I can have nothing further to do with this site.

Hiding who and what is making the claim is the main reason why this is causing more outrage than the DMCA by the way, for any mods still reading this thread. We get why and where DMCA requests come from, we want to know who's head to bite off for censoring art and you're not telling us so the only option we have is to rip into you.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

I don't even care about getting my reading list, I just want to know when account deletion will be back online so I can have nothing further to do with this site.

Hiding who and what is making the claim is the main reason why this is causing more outrage than the DMCA by the way, for any mods still reading this thread. We get why and where DMCA requests come from, we want to know who's head to bite off for censoring art and you're not telling us so the only option we have is to rip into you.

...
You made your account today for the sole purpose of wanting its deletion?
Man, you have certainly interesting priorities

 

[DreadOp]

I guess I'll wait for the account deletion feature, it gives me time to back up my follows. Also, please pass along to the backend devs a feature request for follow import/export, it would make life easier instead of having to manually write down the ~300+ series I'm following. Also, do you have any insight if the "delete account" feature will actually delete all data from your servers, or only raise a "deleted" flag on the account and make it unavailable but keep its data in the servers?

There are ways to transfer library to a cvs. I did all ~1500 yesterday that way.
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_683e6e80-5284-46b8-bf50-807f4d5773f0

I used the first method, make sure to select the option that shows you if you are Reading/Plan to Read/Dropped so you can delete all the Dropped en masse.

Edit - Downside is it doesn't have the stuff they just nuked like "Reincarnated Carrier’s Strategy for Different World".

 

[mawilefan]

I made an account just because I read the headlines, all I wanna say is that it's such a hysterical decision that's done nothing but damage a lot of PR to this site

If anybody ever wants to protect minors they should go out into the streets and help out, those are real people worth protecting, and targetting a manga pirating site has absolutely no bearing in protecting them. Best course of action was not participating because the PR has been damaged beyond repair.