Reporting abandoned official translations?

[kiby]

Is it alright to send reports that a series's official translation has been abandoned and is woefully incomplete? To maybe get the 'Official English (or French, Spanish, etc)' link removed, or to get some indicator on the manga's page that the official translation might as well not exist.

For example, Shed! Ryugasaki-san's official English translation only got 2 volumes, which were released in 2020. It seems pretty clear that there won't be any more, and so little was released that it's only really worth knowing about for book collectors.

 

[Painasbread]

Is it alright to send reports that a series's official translation has been abandoned and is woefully incomplete? To maybe get the 'Official English (or French, Spanish, etc)' link removed, or to get some indicator on the manga's page that the official translation might as well not exist.

For example, Shed! Ryugasaki-san's official English translation only got 2 volumes, which were released in 2020. It seems pretty clear that there won't be any more, and so little was released that it's only really worth knowing about for book collectors.

The link is still valid and you can still buy copies from the two volumes they did of the manga. So the official translation indeed still exists.

Why would you want to remove a perfectly fine and operational link then???

It's not like the two first volume they did should suddenly become unavailable and disappear, just because they didn't continue publishing the rest of the story, right??!

 

[Painasbread]

Also, two volumes out of five represent literally 40% of the story, then if that's not worth knowing, why bother reading any story at all lmao!!
I'm not even mentioning they are the two starting volumes, the most important ones allowing you to decide if the manga will be worth your time and money...

 

[kiby]

Also, two volumes out of five represent literally 40% of the story, then if that's not worth knowing, why bother reading any story at all lmao!!
I'm not even mentioning they are the two starting volumes, the most important ones allowing you to decide if the manga will be worth your time and money...

Buddy, maybe you should fully read what I posted. "or to get some indicator on the manga's page that the official translation might as well not exist." Fully removing the link is not the only thing I suggested doing.

Two out of five volumes, the fifth of which was released in March last year, while we're going into March of this year. This unclosable gap is only going to keep growing. And how does two volumes being on sale help you decide if a manga is worth your time or money, when that link is right next to a free fan translation of the exact chapters included in those volumes, and when there will never even BE more volumes to spend time and money on unless you buy the Japanese volumes?

If that example series is sooooo baaaaad for you, then let's look at UzaMaid (a series only picked back up for fan translations last year after having being dropped for 5 years) with its ONE English volume released in 2020, out of a total of TEN Japanese volumes.

 

[BraveDude8]

Buddy, maybe you should fully read what I posted. "or to get some indicator on the manga's page that the official translation might as well not exist." Fully removing the link is not the only thing I suggested doing.

If you click on the link, you get a page showing you exactly how much of the official translation is available, which is the most useful information we could possibly provide. Removing the link is counterproductive.

I do not see how showing people zero official releases instead of some official releases is meant to be an improvement.

 

[Painasbread]

Buddy, maybe you should fully read what I posted. "or to get some indicator on the manga's page that the official translation might as well not exist." Fully removing the link is not the only thing I suggested doing.

You're wrong. Just because it's little in content doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I've said that before, just not with this set of words.

By the way, it's the same thing with UzaMaid.
Yes, perhaps one volume out of ten is little. But that's the only volume that has been done in official english if you want to buy a physical copy. So the information isn't wrong, the link shouldn't be removed or changed, because there is no other alternative. Reporting it would be wrong, too.

I believe no is the answer to your question, then.

 

[kiby]

If you click on the link, you get a page showing you exactly how much of the official translation is available, which is the most useful information we could possibly provide. Removing the link is counterproductive.

I do not see how showing people zero official releases instead of some official releases is meant to be an improvement.

The point is to save people even a little time by being able to mark an official translation as being abandoned.

But if this question/suggestions will never happen, then it just won't happen. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

You're wrong. Just because it's little in content doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I've said that before, just not with this set of words.

By the way, it's the same thing with UzaMaid.
Yes, perhaps one volume out of ten is little. But that's the only volume that has been done in official english if you want to buy a physical copy. So the information isn't wrong, the link shouldn't be removed or changed, because there is no other alternative. Reporting it would be wrong, too.

I believe no is the answer to your question, then.

In the OP I specifically bring up the fact that the existence of these few volumes is useful knowledge to people like collectors, who would go and buy a copy just to have it, even though there will be no official continuation. But for people who are looking to read an official translation that is still being released regularly (or is a complete translation, for a series that has ended), they'll just close the tab and feel they have wasted their time clicking the link, same as the days when Mangadex would show you manga in your search results when they had no chapters in your chosen language. And AGAIN, removing the link entirely wasn't the only thing I suggested.

Reporting manga isn't just for things that break rules or are actively harmful. "Information Correction" is one of the listed reasons for filing a report, and this thread was posted to find out if pointing out abandoned official releases counts as a legitimate report reason.

But I got a staff answer, so all of this is moot.