Mangadex gets hit by DMCA - more than 25% of chapters gone | staff FAQ update

[evergreen_oak]

Most of the aggregators scrape from mangadex.

I don't see what that has to do with anything I said. I'm not going to use shitty aggregators, I'm mourning the loss of a great fan scanlation site. Y'all are dense as fuck lol

 

[Robbini]

Will there be a way to... let's say open a new window with only the ones affected by this DMCA event so that people can go through each one, check which ones they were reading, which ones they were interested in reading (both groups which now will need to find new sites) and which ones to just ignore.

Could be something as simple as one comment / page with everyone hit with those actually linked to the mangas themselves, not just names so you have to look up at this time 300+ mangas ?

 

[evergreen_oak]

For now. The readerbase will be cut by more than half, and some scanlators are already talking about moving.

Don't pester them with facts and logical statements, they'd rather cling to the good ol' days. And bully people who can see the way things are headed, apparently. Not how I'd use my time, personally, but to each their own

 

[Angry_Panda]

LOL I've been reading MD longer than most of you. Don't blame me for telling it how it is, and don't get salty when you see info you don't like. It's a bad look. Enjoy the skeleton of a once-great site. Until the rest goes down in a month or two, that is

I mean, if we're getting in a pissing match, I've been doing this in one form or another for a quarter century, so like I said....

 

[evergreen_oak]

I mean, if we're getting in a pissing match, I've been doing this in one form or another for a quarter century, so like I said....

Yeah I'm not sure why you decided to start a pissing match. Don't get defensive at the first whisper of criticism that isn't even directed at you, weirdo. As I said, it ain't a good look

 

[bondejeger]

I mean, if we're getting in a pissing match, I've been doing this in one form or another for a quarter century, so like I said....

I started with love hina downloaded with e-mule e-donkey twenty five years ago.

 

[evergreen_oak]

That's enough of my energy spent here. Enjoy the hollow shell, y'all. I genuinely hope it lasts but I know it won't. I'll look back on my time with mangadex fondly. Nothing lasts forever

 

[GipoScribantino]

For now. The readerbase will be cut by more than half, and some scanlators are already talking about moving.

That has nothing to do with what I said, the site could've gone offline without so much as a hint on what happened. If readers go away so be it.

 

[bondejeger]

That has nothing to do with what I said, the site could've gone offline without so much as a hint on what happened. If readers go away so be it.

Sadpanda has complied to take downs and is still alive.

 

[Basic_human]

Still not very good news from this summaries

 

[silvver]

It's kinda wierd that mangadex staff is not saying anything and people like Valle_reading_manga have to make such q&a threads

https://mangadex.org/announcements last announcement is from 4 months ago

 

[Equilibrium]

The site is still up so I'd wager it was worth. This stuff comes with the territory, the shocking part was the scale, the raw numbers, not the event itself.

A site with many of its top rated content removed. I don't think this is a win.

 

[Diraldir]

That has nothing to do with what I said, the site could've gone offline without so much as a hint on what happened. If readers go away so be it.

Doesn't it? You talked about the scale, so I responded. All of the popular stuff was removed, hence the mass exodus of readers and scanlator groups. Like I said, even if it's 'up'.. it's down. Mangadex will be a shell of it's former self. Not to mention that scanlators just won't wanna mess with a site that had so much hard work taken down.

 

[Angry_Panda]

A site with many of its top rated content removed. I don't think this is a win.

It is the lesser of two evils.

 

[GipoScribantino]

A site with many of its top rated content removed. I don't think this is a win.

It does! There are a lot of hidden gems still intact just waiting for you to read them!

Doesn't it? You talked about the scale, so I responded. All of the popular stuff was removed. Like I said, even if it's 'up'.. it's down. Mangadex will be a shell of it's former self.

See my reply above.

 

[Angry_Panda]

There are a lot of hidden gems still intact just waiting for you to read them!

Absolutely - I would guess 20-25% of the titles that were actively updating in my library are affected, but that leaves a huge number of works untouched.

 

[T-sama]

It is the lesser of two evils.

Arguing if it's better to lose a leg or a arm doesn't change the reality of things, the site is effectively crippled and chances are it won't stop here, many groups won't trust mangadex anymore to upload, readers will leave.

There's no lesser evil, just slow and painful death and fall into irrelevance.

 

[Equilibrium]

Yeah, I'll search for these hidden gems browsing a site that hosts my favourites already, not the one that hits me with the "no chapters available" wall every time thanks.

 

[bondejeger]

Arguing if it's better to lose a leg or a arm doesn't change the reality of things, the site is effectively crippled and chances are it won't stop here, many groups won't trust mangadex anymore to upload, readers will leave.

There's no lesser evil, just slow and painful death and fall into irrelevance.

I still think most people who work on series that haven’t been struck by the dmca will still upload to mangadex. The releases will still be scraped by the most relevant aggregators most likely.

 

[GipoScribantino]

Absolutely - I would guess 20-25% of the titles that were actively updating in my library are affected, but that leaves a huge number of works untouched.

From the list in the reddit thread the affected titles in my reading list are like 20 or so, accounting for around 6% of the total.
Of course if a full official list will be released this number might increase, but as it stands I was barely affected.

Now, if all the scanlators decide all together that the fourth or fifth time a DMCA was honoured breaks the camel's back and never ever upload something again, obviously I'll never see more chapters again.