Hi everyone! As Zeph is busy this week, I'm conducting the interview.
This week, I decided to interview Rhino36, leader of #dropout.
Without further ado, enjoy the interview!
If you have any questions for @Rhino36, please ask below!
You can now add a poll when you start a thread.
We will run regular polls to increase engagement with our readers. These can be found in the "Official polls" subform in the General forum.
Our first poll is here: https://mangadex.org/thread/42823 Do check it out!
It would be interesting to see where our readers have come from. ?
If you select "other", please make sure to post how you used to read manga below!
(This poll will run for 2 weeks.)
Genre exclusion has finally been implemented, thanks to @rdn ?
User settings now features a list of genres that can be excluded from the frontpage, /updates, /titles and quick_search
Added a filter button to the right side of the MDList header to temporarily filter list contents by genre
The...
A major update has been rolled out to the site. You won't see any differences on the frontend, but the backend has been almost completely rewritten by @rdn over the past month, meaning that it will now be easier to roll out new features in future. You may encounter new bugs as a result of...
As some of you might have noticed, some of the older chapters did not load for a while yesterday. This was due to our EU server's HDDs potentially on its deathbed. Fearing the worst, I acquired another EU server as its replacement.
Luckily, rebooting the server seems to have solved the...
We have now completed upgrading the image servers. Currently we have 2 image servers (North America/Europe), both with a complete copy of all the images, so there is now redundancy.
You can choose which image server to load images from (only applies to older chapters, since recent chapters are...
As some of you may have noticed, RSS now requires an account to use. This is due to a lot of bots spamming the public RSS links and flooding the server previously.
With this update, there is no longer a need to explicitly filter for languages in the RSS URL, because all user accounts have a...
General site update
In the past 30 days, we had 2.5 million users and 75 million page views. We now have 3 image servers to cope with the bandwidth demands, and this will be increasing soon. Our combined upload for images is approaching 1000 Mbps at peak times. I'd like to thank all users who...
A new version of the site is on the way. You can test out the site at http://beta.mangadex.org .
(Please note that some features are not yet functional, like the dark theme. Your language/hentai settings on the main site will affect the beta site, as there is no way to change these on the beta...
June update: We had over 2 million visitors in the past month! The new webserver appears to be coping with traffic very well. The next priority is upgrading the image servers, which are operating at near capacity now in terms of bandwidth.
The support page is now open again if you're feeling...
The server has been upgraded. Based on the projected rate of growth, we should be good for a few months.
For those who are interested, the server was upgraded from a E3-1225v2 Xeon to a E3-1231v3 Xeon.
MangaDex's growth continues to be off the charts. In the past month, we've had 1.7 million visitors, which is a 82% increase on the previous period. I have been managing to cover all the costs of servers for the site over the past 4 months, but for MD to continue to cope with growth, another...
The most common complaint/bug has now been fixed.
Edit: It has been disabled because the new method was causing the site to crash when over 2000 people are online. Currently redoing it.
Monthly update:
Here are the stats for the past month compared to 2 months ago:
As you can see, we have...
This is the major update of the week. The follows function have been upgraded! You can now fine tune your follows by assigning lists.
On the manga page, you can choose reading, completed, dropped etc when you click the follows button.
You can see subsets (lists) of your follows on your...
New featured manga page to showcase manga which have an anime adaptation that is currently airing.
https://mangadex.org/featured
The titles page has been improved so you can choose a view mode on the search page too.
The list view on the titles page has been improved. The expanded list view has a thumbnail and a small description, while the old list view has been renamed "simple list".
All the 4 view modes of manga titles have been rolled out to the group/manga follows/manga and user/manga pages. In...
You can do so in this thread.
Please note that Power Uploaders already have the ability to edit, so there's no need to request.
If you request this role, please actually make edits ?
All Group Leaders have the ability to edit, as that role is now above the Contrib role, and powers are additive.
Yesterday, some idiot decided that it was a good idea to add the hentai label and random genres to many Manga pages. As a result, the ability to edit Manga pages have been removed from members. It was bound to happen sooner or later... I'm surprised it took 3 months for the first case of...