Rework how the new comments system is to be implemented

[Insignis]

I love MD. I am so used to daily checking my manga feed. Click on comments - no comments nothing happens, comments are there it opens the forum thread. Click on chapter to open it. All in new tabs. Then I read comments, read chapter comments were about. Read chapter and potentially post a comment if there were no comments yet. Or just read comments if its about chapter I already read, just from different group.

Now opening comments opens that damn chapter with some special side tab, showing me last comment or telling me to pay to read/comment/something before others. It automatically marks that chapter as read, so if I just want to read comments, I need to go to the chapter, click the link to the forum in the new panel, close said panel, click on the manga title to go to its main page, and uncheck the "seen" mark, to keep stuff clean like it was before.

Not to be rude, but who ever designed this change has no clue what clean UI/UX is or they were forced by someone to make the site worse, to make fake "viewed/seen" marks appear on as many chapters and their versions as possible, and/or make people dislike commenting to close the forums? Cause like this is just bad.

 

[themangaweeaboo]

I'm sure this has been said before but what I don't understand is why they're so stubborn on this one forum issue when there's no monetary influence to enshittify something that's been working completely fine before.

 

[Trevoga]

I'm sure this has been said before but what I don't understand is why they're so stubborn on this one forum issue when there's no monetary influence to enshittify something that's been working completely fine before.

there is if the "testing" period ends up being delayed totally-not-forever, so the new comments end up only accessible to contributors and paying supporters totally-not-forever

 

[Shamgarsan]

The new comment system is currently just extra clicks to read the actual comment system. Unnecessary friction.

 

[shinya78]

Looks like my suggestion thread got merged with a bunch of other threads, I think some of which weren't even in the suggestions sub-forum to begin with.

I guess @Insignis owns this thread now by virtue of posting a few days earlier.

The extra click needed just to access the chapter's forum thread is still an unnecessary extra click btw.

 

[Hicleric]

After a month of using the new system, I've decided I'm really not a fan of having to click to close the new popup either. Since I'm on mobile, it's less convenient for me to have to fatfinger a smallish X vs just swiping to return to the chapter list.

 

[JVick]

The new comment system is currently just extra clicks to read the actual comment system. Unnecessary friction.

I realized I had just stopped commenting on any chapter since the update. UX design is no joke.

 

[Figu]

I had typed a more argument rich and disapproving post, but it was going to be a post because I wanted to ask how to disable this sidepanel. After stumbling on this thread, I realise it simply doesn't exist.

If this is for testing, then let me hide it. It's annoying.
If this is for classism and a nagware feature, then I leave my response to your imagination.

I want to opt out of your empty VIP panel. MangaDex looks like a has-been with all these completely empty comment sections nagging for payment. As if the (external) content nuke wasn't bad enough, now you (internally) smother the next most precious thing this site has (community).