April Fool's chapters should be properly labeled with clear indication that it is not a legit chapter [Rejected]

[Xystus]

Maybe something as simple as [April Fool] as prefix or suffix on the chapter's title. It is a complete waste of time trying to catch up reading backlog on this day, I swear.
Please make April Fool pranks optional for readers, not everyone wants to participate in it.

 

[Sahkuh]

The point was that it's generally not fun to have fun at somebody else's expense, just immature and obnoxious. So likewise, thanks.

Imagine feeling personally attacked by a joke translation/edit on April Fools. Seriously, touch grass.

 

[RogueKitsune]

The point was that it's generally not fun to have fun at somebody else's expense, just immature and obnoxious. So likewise, thanks.

Who is being harmed in this case? The scan group? Mangadex? Average user #49201?

You don't have to like every joke/meme out there, its fine. But just because you don't like it doesn't mean others cannot have their fun.

 

[feha]

Just take up scanlation of your favorites and avoid this problem, plain and simple. With AI developing so fast,I'm sure you can figure it out. I find it hard to complain about stuff that I get for free without absolutely 0 effort from me, just my opinion

Was that intentional? Feels intentional

 

[feha]

Who is being harmed in this case? The scan group? Mangadex? Average user #49201?

You don't have to like every joke/meme out there, its fine. But just because you don't like it doesn't mean others cannot have their fun.

Aside from the fact that I (aka average user #49201) have been harmed (lost several minutes out of my 24 hours this day! ;D Though joke aside, the worse part is that I lost good mood when my tracked mangas show up with an update only to be fake, so technically it did real harm, beside the first kind I mentioned which one can simply laugh off), I think it is worth mentioning that the point of this thread (as far as I understood it to be) was that ppl could still have their fun, and simply to suggest adding proper labeling (either in title or DB for automatic filters), so ppl could opt-out.

 

[Nolonar]

Imagine feeling personally attacked by someone suggesting a feature that'd help them (and some others) enjoy this site more. Why are we even arguing here? You guys aren't the developers, you aren't even tangentially affected by the suggestion. Maybe practice what you preach and touch grass yourself?

 

[Orio]

True it gets obnoxious, but eh, people dicking around and trolling just comes with the territory of reading free unsanctioned rips of manga in the first place.

Hell we get shitposting in credits pages all the time, today's just the 1 day of the year it boils over everywhere else.

TLDR scanlators are too powerful they can't be contained just pray and pay for official TLs or learn moon runes or you'll have to bow down to them and forever be at their mercy.🥲

 

[Mr_Detective]

I don't have a problem with this suggestion. I am not sure how hard it will be to implement a feature like April Fools setting mentioned above, but it would be a great addition.

I'm not very bothered by the AF chapters yet... But who knows? I might find them obnoxious eventually, if I run into too many of them. I'd like to do one myself, but I totally get that many people don't like it and I don't blame them. Mangadex AF jokes are fine for me, though.

Also, guys, April Fools is not something people everywhere in the world participate in. And even in countries where it's popular, not everyone is obligated to enjoy it. If you can't understand that, then you're the one who's lacking maturity.

 

[Kuu90]

Was that intentional? Feels intentional

In my defense I was too freaking sleepy after coming back home in the dead of the night, my bad 😅

Mangadex AF jokes are fine for me, though.

That's the exact problem I suppose, jokes are subjective. Someone or the other is not gonna like a well liked joke or someone's gonna like a shit joke, as it's mostly a harmless prank which probably just takes a few minutes of your time at the maximum, they are removed after a day anyways. I really don't see a problem in TLs goofing around once per year.

And if people are really offended by this and want a new feature to filter those releases out, I'm pretty sure that's gonna be one of the last things to do on the bucket list of MD developers. So it'll probably take a while for that to even be implemented either way.

And if you talk about maturity take the people who don't enjoy April fools day, shouldn't they be mature as well and brush off this harmless prank (which is done once an year) in a product they consume for free and done by groups in their free time? I think it definitely applies both ways.

 

[Mr_Detective]

And if you talk about maturity take the people who don't enjoy April fools day, shouldn't they be mature as well and brush off this harmless prank (which is done once an year) in a product they consume for free and done by groups in their free time? I think it definitely applies both ways.

Being mature doesn't mean you must brush off everything. There will be things that are seemingly harmless, yet can still irritate people. And if they are frustrated, they'll have to voice their disapproval of the chapters. Maturity =/= emotionless. In this situation, I can understand their perspective.

The products they consume for free, is being done in people's free time of their choice. The defense of "I do this for free so just stfu and lick it" is not one I'll stand with when it's used to excuse bad translation (even though it's not the case in this context). You put out something bad, people will say so. In this case, some people are displeased by a chapter that you decided to spend time on to deliberately translate "incorrectly". That's your choice, no one forced you to. They tell you how they feel. You can ignore them. Or you can... argue with them and shame them for not liking your joke?

Bottom line is you expect them to be mature and brush off your prank. OK. Be mature and brush off their complains that they didn't like April Fools, or your joke. Let them vent. The day passes, people move on, things return to normal.

 

[Kuu90]

people will say so

Yup, people will definitely say so, and to heed that or not is again the scanlation group's wish.

they'll have to voice their disapproval of the chapters

And this, I was arguing against a post with language that wasn't warranted for any type of a complaint hardly something about April fools, you can complain maturely or throw out insults and stuff, that's what I went against. I never said anything about people to not voice out their feelings.

The day passes, people move on, things return to normal

Yup, that I agree with as well. This is hardly a topic that warrants this much attention, so I'm gonna stop here as well.

 

[ZdrytchX]

Btw you can't give titles to oneshots, so I noticed.

Also if you tag them that just makes it easier for aggreggs to filter them out. I think my joke hit a little too hard because I pissed off some hundreds to thousands of readers across the net by erroneously giving the english translation of "warutsu" as "warts" instead of "waltz"

to be honest anyone who had half a brain would've realised something was wrong by the 4th page, because the main character becomes a "hotto doggu"

 

[Xystus]

You will participate in April Fools and you will enjoy it

I unwillingly participated in it and I hated every part of it, except for Orange. Please for the love of god change this next year.

 

[BraveDude8]

This years April Fools chapters have now been moved to a separate entry.

https://mangadex.org/title/6b0a0953-6992-4be5-bde0-6d7ebc2c940b/april-fool-s-collection-2023

 

[Xystus]

This years April Fools chapters have now been moved to a separate entry.

https://mangadex.org/title/6b0a0953-6992-4be5-bde0-6d7ebc2c940b/april-fool-s-collection-2023

Is making opt-out feature feasible in the future?

 

[RogueKitsune]

Is making opt-out feature feasible in the future?

It's doable, but for something that happens once a year... Well you already know my thoughts on it (go do something other than reading manga for a day).

High level what would need to happen:

• Some field/flag would have to be added to the chapter object.
• Then all the search and fetch logic would have to be updated to be made aware of it
• Front end would need to be updated to allow chapters to be marked as joke/meme
• Front end would need to have a setting to allow users to not see said joke/meme chapters.

Once all that is done you still have to deal with the fact that all of this relies on the uploader to actually tag their upload correctly.

 

[BraveDude8]

Is making opt-out feature feasible in the future?

Nope. Ruins the whole idea, and people would deliberately not use it to catch the people filtering the chapters out.

 

[Xystus]

Welp I guess it's really not using Mangadex for 2 days next year I guess. Sucks that it has to be that way.

Fuck April Fools.

 

[tristan9]

Nope. Ruins the whole idea, and people would deliberately not use it to catch the people filtering the chapters out.

Also that aside, we can’t be there developing a searchable/filterable flag on every single chapter just because a few people can’t take 24 hours a year of jokes… There’s more important things to care about, for both you and us…

 

[BlueDsc]

Doesn't look like it got posted on Mangadex, but I enjoy how the April Fool's joke for the new chapter of Futaribeya posted on Dynasty was handled. It was a couple pages in the middle of the manga with an "April Fool's! The real pages are right after this" so you got to have the experience of an April Fool's joke without the pain of having to wait for the real chapter.

Looking back at the chapter it looks like they moved the April Fool's pages to the end of the chapter with a "These were for April Fool's" note on them since the day is over now.

 

[RexNemorensis]

Do you guys... not know what april fools means? You're supposed not to see it coming.

And like others said, it comes with the territory of reading pirated manga. The people who scanlate them can (and will) do whatever they want lol. God forbid the people who translate shit for you, and make nothing doing it, decided to have some fun for a day.

If you're that worried, just buy the goddamn manga. Otherwise stop whining. It's just comics ffs.