Site Update - 14th of May 2025

[Hadski]

The more I checked the titles that got nuked the more empty I felt bros

 

[Shiromon]

this is certainly one of the threads of all time. Guess I shouldn't have stopped saving the stuff I read in my bookmarks, now I gotta wait for that library exporting tool to come around bc I'm way too lazy to go through with it manually (and my list is fucking gigantic)
Future is looking bleak, but hopefully we'll pull through. See ya on the next one folks, fuck the brainless greedy corpos, fuck the publishers, fuck the Koreans in particular and their shitty slop and fuck this gay ass world for constantly trying to take away everything that I love and treasure.

 

[kreahleiser]

It's funny how mangadex touted itself as protecting scanlation groups when it can't even protect itself lol

Ain't protecting us no more, I have to tick a box saying I have the right to upload the content now. Looks like responsibility is being pushed onto scanlators entirely. I doubt Young Jump are about to give me permission to translate the last few chapters of Yuuutsu, even if its for free.

 

[VesperPie]

Is there a mirror site or plans for one?

 

[Eliminateur]

So for the users that use chapter read markers for tracking (please don't),

¿what am i supposed to use then?, the only way i've seen how to track what i've read is the "eye" chapter read marker

 

[adrielpirate]

a mass DMCA takedown is your way to fight piracy?

ok then

im going to pirate the shit out of every manga even harder from now on... ages ago i used to clean and edit just for fun... but no more...

im back on business... bring it on.

 

[dmy96]

Several of the series that was not fully purged earlier with 1-2 chapters remaining was fully purged today. either by MD or scanslator themselves. Expect the rest to follows.

 

[T-sama]

Ain't protecting us no more, I have to tick a box saying I have the right to upload the content now. Looks like responsibility is being pushed onto scanlators entirely. I doubt Young Jump are about to give me permission to translate the last few chapters of Yuuutsu, even if its for free.

I think I said before, if the purge didn't kill mangadex then that little box will.

Like, many groups will leave mangadex due to not being safe, which means even more people will leave, the little box just ensure that even  more groups will leave.

The little box is arguably offensive to any groups who uploads here, like, having the right to upload here? Is that a joke? What publisher would ever give that right? Entire point is that we're pirating it lol

 

[elemhunter]

The floodgates are open, this site's going to become a ghost town at this rate while the other scraping sites don't give a shit about DMCA. RIP.

Also fun fact, exporting your library was requested as a feature 2 years ago. Maybe now it can finally be implemented?

 

[DreadOp]

Also fun fact, exporting your library was requested as a feature 2 years ago. Maybe now it can finally be implemented?

This really should be a standard feature with the ways sites come and go.

 

[havelmom]

The first manga I ever did a scanlation of got struck
Honestly why, it's four years old, got axed at three volumes, and never got licensed.

that's how they do it, just blanket claim because the law favors the accuser

 

[Variousletters]

And even if they didn't stop it might still have shitty translation compared to fan translation and expensive as fuck to boot.

And "we can't let the children see ethnics food" redraws or censoring like the suddenly-burgers in Pokemon.

 

[havelmom]

exporting your library was requested as a feature 2 years ago. Maybe now it can finally be implemented?

it's getting worked now
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/site-update-14th-of-may-2025.2274813/page-2#post-26267100
first page of this very thread

edit: wrong link

 

[saitohd]

Look at the bright side guys. With less content on the site, less traffic which means less server costs. Win for everybo- oh wait, only win is for mangadex itself. /s

The feature to export our reading lists should be implemented asap before it's too late.

I suggest scanlators to use sites like mangaupdates, if they aren't already, to help us get notified when there's a new chapter released.

 

[Yanqui9]

It's certainly arguable depending on the state of 'official' translations (read: quality/if they exist), even regardless of that it might be argued that the scanlator has proof of work on their translations; this is especially relevant if they were released for free or they were released before the official translations were started.

They can also argue duplication of artwork, unauthorized use of logos/trademarks/trademarked characters...

They'll come up with something, and they have more money to back it up.

 

[RoseYuri]

rest assured, when i decide what manga to purchase, I will be checking to see if it is on the list taken down from here. if you try to fight against piracy, you'll lose legitimate purchases down the line.

 

[Nenorck]

I think the bigger worry isn't whether what was taken down is lost forever (plenty of people have pointed out most if not every series on the list is on some aggregator site) but what most of the groups who got their shit taken down will do.
I see 5 options:

• Flat out quit and disband
• Continue uploading to MD like nothing ever happened until they get banned or the site gets taken down altogether.
• find the most obscure site imaginable and hope their audience (as well as scrappers) find them.
• temporary imgur/cubari galleries like when MD went offline a few years ago
• Create their own website/discord that involves jumping through several hoops to view

I'm actually worried most are gonna be the first option tbh.

 

[Archimedes5000]

Ain't protecting us no more, I have to tick a box saying I have the right to upload the content now. Looks like responsibility is being pushed onto scanlators entirely. I doubt Young Jump are about to give me permission to translate the last few chapters of Yuuutsu, even if its for free.

Oh wow, it really is over huh
There's 2 kinds of piracy sites, ones that have more or less useless legal statements everywhere and ones that don't.
Both are fine, but when a site switches from one to the other then it's clear they lost all confidence in their current model

 

[Archimedes5000]

I think I said before, if the purge didn't kill mangadex then that little box will.

Like, many groups will leave mangadex due to not being safe, which means even more people will leave, the little box just ensure that even  more groups will leave.

The little box is arguably offensive to any groups who uploads here, like, having the right to upload here? Is that a joke? What publisher would ever give that right? Entire point is that we're pirating it lol

That kind of box is fine, it lets the site more easily say "we didn't know it was copyrighted, user said it wasn't".
But adding that this late into the game is a sign that things are likely starting to fall apart

 

[elemhunter]

it's getting worked now
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/site-update-14th-of-may-2025.2274813/#post-26265723
first page of this very thread

Did you link the wrong post? That one doesn't say anything about being able to export your reading list. Better late than never I guess, glad the DMCAs are making someone get off their ass.