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A dictionary or web search would probably have helped on page 6 rather than just pretending the word "committee" didn't exist, lmao.

You are very welcome, I'm glad it was interesting ;)

Contribution from Thiedes in the Marumaru discord :kek:

It's not like official sites are stopping scanlators from continuing to scanlate the series; calling licensed releases "sniping" suggests that official licensors have some kind of moral obligation not to license a series if it's already receiving a fan translation. (On the contrary—fan...

Porn isn't the issue per se. Rather, the issue is that porn is being uploaded under a series that isn't tagged as pornographic. Non-porn series can be seen by users who aren't logged in, and they can show up on the front page, both of which are an issue for reasons that ought to be obvious.

JMDict actually has the interjective/"no way" meaning as sense 4 under its entry for 嘘. So this isn't really an issue of the dictionary being bad so much as one of people refusing to look beyond the first proposed definition for any given headword, even in the presence of contextual clues...

Implausible it might well be, but all stories (especially science fiction ones) use some level of implausibility as a basis to explore aspects of the human condition. Obviously suspension of disbelief will be required. (In any case, it's not as though the concept of utopian, war-free future...

Hey now there are still 3 volumes left of that

The amount of selection bias displayed in these kinds of threads from people who don't know Japanese is remarkable. There are obviously instances in which official translators behave badly, there is no doubt, but anyone who listens to people who actually know the language will know that the...

I'll get to it eventually.

It has actually been serialised, although we don't plan to work on it. It wouldn't surprise me if somebody picked it up.

I think I trust a publishing company's work more than his "revised machine-translated English," to be quite honest.

I mean, sure, in theory. But data dumps by API are also nonstandard, and (relative to plain old notes baked into pages) fragile. These notes are not going to make their way to MangaGo for readers there, and they're not going to make their way to Madokami or AnimeBytes to be preserved as archival...

The current proposal here seems reasonable. Strong agree with RonBWL's proposal that split chapters are kept in some kind of lower tier heading under the same chapter index. But is this going to be something only for official bots to use? Making it appear as an option to users is likely to cause...

Just to be clear at the outset, who exactly is producing these split chapters? I realise that there are certain groups (unofficially) splitting chapters, but beyond that? And what exactly is the benefit to not simply treating 1.1, 1.2 etc. as regular standalone chapters (just with funky naming...