Mangadex to purge titles for legal reasons

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Judging how she also unbanned Seer, it's safe to say she did ban him. I'm worried if anyone else will get banned due to this...

Seer did like 10 strikes.
And given who most of them went to, it's pretty certain who the one banning him was.
Strike spamming is a bannable offence, but she certainly pulled the trigger way too early.

 

[RogueKitsune]

People that get shitter shattered over reaction spamming probably shouldn't be in a position to ban people, but we all know that's not going to change.

 

[cryum]

I've been advised not to. To the best of my knowledge, the removal had been finalized by the time of the announcement post. Other removals might be due to other unrelated rule breakages or just the uploader or group wanting to remove them.

....wait. So what happens if someone else independently makes a list?

It doesn't make sense to me for a legal body to "advise" something like this without giving their name. Enforcement is simply not possible when you make it all cloak and dagger.

 

[TestAddress]

People that get shitter shattered over reaction spamming probably shouldn't be in a position to ban people, but we all know that's not going to change.

MD is a company not a democracy after all. Even in democracy their are huge holes that make "free elections" to "free rejections".

 

[ipmanvsthemask]

We cannot answer this at this time.

sockpuppet

 

[unfilteredjw]

Oh hey looks like we were right.

But they surely aren't gonna be like CR. They pinky promise.

Best move on before the enshittifcation commences further.

 

[sanshoku]

Well, time to start archiving and jump ships.
We'll be losing tons of interesting data, trivia and metadata from the TL teams on forums and such. Thank you Mangadex, very cool.

 

[Derpchan]

its kinda hilarious for the site owner to believe they've figured out some sort of "secret recipe" to user retention when their entire community is built as a fan translation index/aggregation service; there is nothing unique to this site at all.

time to move onto the next site; good riddance too, the API crashes way too damn often.

 

[Askelon]

its kinda hilarious for the site owner to believe they've figured out some sort of "secret recipe" to user retention when their entire community is built as a fan translation index/aggregation service; there is nothing unique to this site at all.

time to move onto the next site; good riddance too, the API crashes way too damn often.

It never worked for anyone any of the many times they did this exact same thing, but goshdarnit I swear, this time will be different!

 

[moGinsanity]

i always thought the ad banners being an unironic thing now would be the start of something terrible
i just think it wouldn't get this bad

 

[dokidoki]

Oh hey looks like we were right.

But they surely aren't gonna be like CR. They pinky promise.

Best move on before the enshittifcation commences further.

The question is

Delete your account now or delete it after they get worse

its wild how both MD and Discord
Hit me with the when should I delete my account type question because of retarded choices they make fucking over their core audience, which they are completely OK with abandoning them

Just hope next time people see that censorship > using the shit excuse of its against the law = them lying, faster

Its like how discord uses the ID "ITS FOR THE KIDS" bullshit excuse as a cover up for harvesting your info to put you on a terrorist list

when there's no point in trying to talk to mods/admins of w.e group and getting into a argument of a WE CAUGHT YOU and they going No we aren't doing this trusssssssst
and its way better to solve it via action aka mass account deletion instead of wasting time talking online trying to convince someone

 

[Cpu2069]

Titles being removed are those we have been made aware of through a legal nexus as "considered the distribution of illegal material". Moderation will not go beyond the titles mentioned; there was Papa Milk and anything adjacent, and some others still in review.

If we are notified of anything else, we will try to inform uploaders before proceeding with removals, where possible.

I can only assume that you guys are doing this because of age-verification shit forcing you between a rock and a hard place. I mean, considering this sites history I doubt you want to do this. All ask as a humble reader is that you do an intentionally bad job at enforcing this by, for example, creating dummy manga to "ban" in order to make it seem like you're doing something or you could also hide the manga in question by making somebody enter the kojima code in settings or some shit like that. If none of thats on the table, you could always try hosting it on a different site and call it something like doujindex. I'll giving you guys the benifit of the doubt for the time being.

 

[ImAFuckinNerd]

Well boys, I called it.

UK is on the war path, but just toward porn in general. Manga and anime happen to be in the line of fire.

But, hey, its been a good ride for some of the doujin's here.

The UK just announced a permanent ban on any "incest simulations in porn". And offenders can face up to 2 years for possession and up to 5 years for distribution.

Also, to appease the crying soul within me and just in case someone with any power to change things is reading this:
Please know that there is still time to backtrack, no matter how deep in you are.
You can go back.
We will hate you for this ruckus and bullshit you've pulled, yes.
But we will at least know you cared enough to stop before it was too late.
Please make the right choice. I really do love this site, and it hurts to see you all kill it like this.

 

[Askelon]

i always thought the ad banners being an unironic thing now would be the start of something terrible
i just think it wouldn't get this bad

There's nothing so permanent as a temporary measure afterall.

 

[Archimedes5000]

The question is

Delete your account now or delete it after they get worse

What purpose does deleting your account serve?
Not like you even need an account to use the site, most users don't have accounts

You can just stop using the site
Or actually do keep using the site, not like they get any money from that anyway (if you are not using Tachiyomi or an adblock at this point you might be insane)

 

[RogueKitsune]

The question is

Delete your account now or delete it after they get worse

Jokes on you. Account deletion is not available. YOU ARE STUCK HERE FOREVER!

There's nothing so permanent as a temporary measure afterall.

facts

....wait. So what happens if someone else independently makes a list?

You can try to make your own list but it will be difficult. You will need to track every title on the site and do periodic comparisons to see if a title has been removed and then you will need to track down why it was removed (duplicate title, something that breaks a "normal" rule, something that breaks a "new special rule that was never enforced before in order to secretly remove titles" rule, etc.)

 

[Bireus]

I'd probably just exporting my read list to other site after this since I dunno when/if they'll get removed DX

Is there a way to export your followed list? I'm having trouble finding it but I know (or I think) back in the day I used it to migrate from the dying bato.to to MangaDex. So might as well do it again to migrate from the dying to MD to... wherever else.
Some of the series I'm following seem very elligible to a purge (in technicality even GochiUsa could be) and who knows if any have fallen already.

Also subscribing to how laughable it is that a piracy site is citing "legal reasons".

so now that mangadex is sudokuing itself, any recommended sites? also, is there a way to export my follows? might as well start migrating now before MD ruins itself any harder

Also, please pass along to the backend devs a feature request for follow import/export, it would make life easier instead of having to manually write down the ~300+ series I'm following.

Guess the big exodus is gonna start real soon, it's nothing new, anybody who hasn't saved their lists, better start, because this "case by case" shit sounds so arbitrary that you can't trust a single word from mods

Over the past two decades, I’ve been through so many sites that I eventually started keeping track of everything I read in a huge, well-organized Excel spreadsheet. Yeah, I’m old, but this bad boy has never failed me once.

I will take this as my cue to back up my reading list before it gets worse. I suggest you all do the same while we can.

Well, time to start archiving and jump ships.

There are 3rd party tools and some other suggestions that can be found on the forums that will allow you to export your library

https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...lanet-anilist-kitsu-mal-mangaupdates.2324802/

 

[TestAddress]

Stop the misinformation. Titles being removed depict sexual activity between characters that are minors, either in appearance (handled on a case-by-case basis) or confirmed in the dialogue. It's about law and compliance with it. If you jerk it off to little kids, go and do it elsewhere; there are sites that specialise in that.

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Staff note: Please refer to the following post for a somewhat less unsavoury follow up on this.
https://forums.mangadex.org/posts/29007231

You reached through a conclusion you are a steward for a service that is consumed by 80% pedos, so.... The deletion of comments and banning.

 

[Zahogan]

https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...lanet-anilist-kitsu-mal-mangaupdates.2324802/

I am a bit wary of running some random binary someone recommends, I appreciate it though. Might try it on a VM.

 

[Tscheddov]

The UK just announced a permanent ban on any "incest simulations in porn". And offenders can face up to 2 years for possession and up to 5 years for distribution.

LOL what are they going to ban next ? the use of Dildos that dont look like the average british dong? because its simulated bestiality ?

if MD does not block acces from Britain and moves its business registration to somewhere else, the website is going to shit no matter how much titles and chapters they delete