Ask The Person Below You A Question Thread

[BlackGeneral]

Orange and black. Maybe some purple dots.

If you were a monkey able to speak, would you talk?

 

[Itsukimoto]

If you think about it, there's a high chance that you will be abducted and experimented on. So probably not, although it would be pretty funny to randomly talking to someone and rant, as the other fail to process what is going on-nya

If you were snail, would you chase someons for five big leaves?

 

[CharaDotArchivist]

idk what a snail thinks, though because i'm pretty easily bribed by food...

would you rather have an infinite $20 USD/equivalent bill (like, a valid $20 note permanently in your wallet) or the ability to turn water into your favourite non-water drink at will

 

[deleted-user-47fbb6a46f]

Infinite money or turning water into wine... Capitalism or Jesus... Anyways, I take the money.

Would you rather have an infinite set of pennies (like a valid $1 cent note permanently in your wallet) or have more charisma while bartering? (meaning you can try and get discounts)

 

[Itsukimoto]

of course the later one-nya


Would you rather have infinite mangadex but no manga, or infinite dex but no manga, with index-nya?

 

[deleted-user-47fbb6a46f]

Aren't those the same? infinite mangadex - manga = infinite dex. Am I missing something? I'd take the latter, indexes are useful if without manga, but not indexed manga is useless.

If you had to describe yourself in one word, which would it be? (Example: I'd use "competent")

 

[Itsukimoto]

Delusional.

If you were to add a new reaction to the forum, what would it be-nya?

 

[yogurtman250]

Hysterical.

Do you have a job?

Job? in THIS place?

What do you think of the person above me?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

An unpleasant tourist

How much do you care about keeping your devices free of spyware?

 

[Dverin_Oshiban_Duren]

Enough to use basic stuff like antivirus, not installing weird shite and managing app permissions but not enough to actually make any difference in a broader sense.

What would be the most interestingly creative and maybe even useful thing you would do if you have infinite regeneration but also perfect control over it? (You can also choose if and when you will be mortal or immortal)

 

[yogurtman250]

Take dangerous shortcuts I would never take due to my mortality

What do you also think of this newbie?

 

[Itsukimoto]

Newbie? Nah man you are already a regular-nya.


You have a soul partner, but it personifies your worst fear(For instance, if you fear spiders it will be like a real spider - grotesque and unsightly, making you visibly uncomfortable) What is your fear, and what would your partner look like-nya?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Hmmm... Acrophobia... I guess a perpetually falling body?

What's the coolest lamp in your home?

 

[Basic_human]

None, too poor to buy cool lamp.

I want to ask technical question, please answer of you know. Does the https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...ripts-and-bookmarklets.1869306/#post-26312286 work for MY library or is it all manga in mangadex? I still doesn't really understand JavaScript or how it work. Also if the preferred language en does that mean other language not gonna appear?

 

[boursk]

From what I can tell, this is a script to export manga titles from MangaDex. From the video in the post you linked you can see that it says it's an export for your library. Now I haven't used the script, but I did take a quick look at the code. The language for each entry uses your preferred language, but has a number of fallback languages in case your chosen language doesn't exist.

The reason I looked into the code, was because under normal circumstances, you can't just get user library data unless you use the API or are scraping the webpages. Scraping the webpages is never advised and against MangaDex's policies, but in order to use the API, you'd normally need to register an API client on MangaDex's settings page and provide the script with your username, password, API client name and secret. Clearly you don't do that when using this script, so what's going on?

Basically you're doing a "manual XSS attack" on yourself so the script can hijack the session. You need to be logged into MangaDex first and when you run the script, it will grab the access token it needs to do the requests from your browser's localstorage: https://github.com/rRoler/bookmarkl...6793c38c/src/websites/mangadex/website.ts#L72

This is a typical case of choosing user friendliness over security, where the user will have to really trust that the script they're running isn't malicious. For almost all cases, this is a major red flag and is an example of why you should never run scripts you don't trust, let alone don't understand. That said, just because you go through the hoops of providing all kinds of information to allow a script to access your account "the right way", doesn't take away you're allowing a script you don't understand to do what it promises to do. The moral of the story is to always be careful of 3rd party scripts.

Now to conform to the thread's format, here's a question:

If you're a mod/admin: does MangaDex allow such scripts to be used and advertised on the forums given how they handle authentication with the site?

If you're not a mod: would you choose run a 3rd party script like this, because it promises to do what you need it to and the site itself doesn't provide that feature, or would you rather be skeptical about running 3rd party scripts you don't understand to avoid bad things happening?

 

[OisE]

If you're not a mod: would you choose run a 3rd party script like this, because it promises to do what you need it to and the site itself doesn't provide that feature, or would you rather be skeptical about running 3rd party scripts you don't understand to avoid bad things happening?

I wanted to export my library with it, but I saw that they needed my password and everything so I am not doing it because of it.

I hope with the library rework we will have a built in export function on MD.

Do you count how many pages are in the manga that you bought?

 

[DavidianMillerian]

I don't buy manga; that's the whole reason I even use this website at all.

how long can you read something you don't really care about before moving on to something better?

 

[Itsukimoto]

All of it. Nya

Who do you think will be the big threes of V6?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Whippersnappers!!!

Favourite Tea?

 

[LYAISASIMP]

A brown sugar milk tea 120% sugar. Does milk tea count as tea?

Do you have a favorite character that everyone hates?