Chapter number no longer supporting multiple chapters via a hyphen? :not a bug:

[elemhunter]

https://mangadex.org/title/16407/hyaku-monogatari
80 should be "80-81" and so on, but I can no longer add hyphens to chapter numbers. Any way to fix this, or an alternative naming scheme for these kinds of 2-in-1 chapters? I'm expecting at least one person to ask "where's chapter X?"

 

[deleted-user-944571dbeb]

The thing is, multi chapter are not allowed to begin with, so do volume upload. It has to be individual chapter

 

[elemhunter]

That doesn't really apply to this case, if you'll look at the chapter. It's one volume with multiple "chapters" per chapter in some cases.

 

[deleted-user-944571dbeb]

Can't you go with decimals?

 

[Teasday]

Well, this isn't a bug, it's intended behaviour. I suppose whether it should be intended is another question.

As mentioned, batched chapters aren't allowed so it makes sense that only numbers and the decimal point are allowed (also because that significantly helps with grouping and sorting) but this does seem like a more-or-less legitimate case for hyphens. It's an edge case though.

At least for now, I would consider naming these with decimals, like 80.81.

 

[Pokari]

Would a workaround in this particular case be calling the chapter "81 - Chapter Name" so that it shows up as "80 - 81 - Chapter Name" in the main listing and "80 81 - Chapter Name" elsewhere? Both seem human-readable, ish.

That seems like it would mess with the chapter-counting system but certainly no more than deeming it "80.81" would.