Taidana Akuyaku Kizoku no Ore ni, Kon'yaku Haki Sareta Akuyaku Reijou ga Totsuidara Saikyou no Fuufu ni Narimashita - Vol. 3 Ch. 17

[Kosnope]

Just read it on another site. MangaDex doesn't prioritise community anymore anyway now that they are transitioning to a profit-seeking model. Use what you get and move on to other communities if you want what MD cannot offer.

I dunno, I'd say combatting scangroups paywalling chapters on shitty 3rd party websites is definitely beneficial for the community.

 

[Figu]

I dunno, I'd say combatting scangroups paywalling chapters on shitty 3rd party websites is definitely beneficial for the community.

There are plenty of aggregators you can read on, you don't need to go read on their site if you don't want that. It's extra easy to search through multiple if you use apps such as Mihon or Tachimanga.

 

[Kosnope]

There are plenty of aggregators you can read on, you don't need to go read on their site if you don't want that. It's extra easy to search through multiple if you use apps such as Mihon or Tachimanga.

what does that have to do with mangadex community?

 

[Figu]

what does that have to do with mangadex community?

Oh, I see. I continued on the topic of how and where to read comics.

I dunno, I'd say combatting scangroups paywalling chapters on shitty 3rd party websites is definitely beneficial for the community.

On the topic of walling off content, Comick had a very novel approach to resolving paywalls with its shortly delayed chapter releases that allowed a group to promote their website. It was still new by the time the site ceased to host content, but I think that was a massive improvement compared to going nuclear like MangaDex does.

A related scanlation scene misbehaviour that has been allowed to fester is the concept of sniping. Laying claim to a work and letting readers harass other groups should not be a thing. Combatting this also prevents groups from laying claim to a work as a way of advertising themselves, then silently drop it until someone else picks it up, to then do a mass release and abandon it again. If the toxic exclusivity nonsense isn't condoned, this would resolve itself naturally. From what I've read, there was a for-profit group that started this stuff in the first place.

 

[Kosnope]

Oh, I see. I continued on the topic of how and where to read comics.


On the topic of walling off content, Comick had a very novel approach to resolving paywalls with its shortly delayed chapter releases that allowed a group to promote their website. It was still new by the time the site ceased to host content, but I think that was a massive improvement compared to going nuclear like MangaDex does.

A related scanlation scene misbehaviour that has been allowed to fester is the concept of sniping. Laying claim to a work and letting readers harass other groups should not be a thing. Combatting this also prevents groups from laying claim to a work as a way of advertising themselves, then silently drop it until someone else picks it up, to then do a mass release and abandon it again. If the toxic exclusivity nonsense isn't condoned, this would resolve itself naturally. From what I've read, there was a for-profit group that started this stuff in the first place.

Hard to say. On the surface level, sniping is obviously bad. In rare cases, when a series is translated by an absolute garbage translator with shitty quality and memes in the "T/N notes" right on the pages - it's a morally right thing to do to make an alternative version that doesn't suck ass.