Filtering based on fully scanlated/translated

[trashwu]

I would like an option to the advanced search which allows you to filter by fully scanlated/translated titles. Thank you in advance 🥰

 

[Ndtm]

Alas this is basically https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/filtering-based-on-fully-scanlated-translated.1084275/

Teasday said: ↑

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This has been asked for repeatedly ever since the site has existed, and we still do not have plans to implement it due to things like ambiguity in what "fully scanlated" even means (fully in which languages? by which groups? do extra chapters count? or official translations?) as well as the potential complexity in how this would be actually tracked internally.

There's a reason we've had publication status forever and scanlation status never.

This is in practice a dupe of https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/manga-add-a-state-completely-translated.1077438/

Fifty fifty chances those with completed status would have them.

Considering it's publication status and not scanlation status you'd be looking at quite a lot less i bet

 

[Iceblade20]

Honestly yeah..I guess it would be too much. I though it would be easy to just try to find series which just had that blue "end" tag but didn't take all the other factors into consideration.

Oh well. Probably best to stick with searching through only completed series. Thanks for the update

 

[Baronoflight]

Oh well. Probably best to stick with searching through only completed series. Thanks for the update

Hmm, try searching by oldest>newest. It may increase your chances on the off chance an older series were completed by a dedicated scangroup long ago.

 

[Iceblade20]

Hmm, try searching by oldest>newest. It may increase your chances on the off chance an older series were completed by a dedicated scangroup long ago.

Thanks that would be helpful

 

[elemhunter]

This request is mainly because clicking on a title, only to find it has 3 translated chapters is annoying. A simple option to mark a series as Completely Scanlated in a target language would be nice. Mangaupdates has this feature, and it's pretty useful, but MU isn't always up to date since so many groups just submit straight to MD.

 

[Ndtm]

This request is mainly because clicking on a title, only to find it has 3 translated chapters is annoying. A simple option to mark a series as Completely Scanlated in a target language would be nice. Mangaupdates has this feature, and it's pretty useful, but MU isn't always up to date since so many groups just submit straight to MD.

-> https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...y-scanlated-translated.1084275/#post-16635702

 

[elemhunter]

Lame. Mangaupdates it is, then, if MD can't do it.

 

[AlexEliot]

We have discussed this once more and have reached a positive conclusion to this.

It is planned and it shall now await implementation from the developers.

 

[Teasday]

I'd call it more of a compromise solution in order to avoid false positives, but yeah, should work for most cases.

 

[Kurama-senpai]

Search filter for finished series scanlating!

This would be really helpful. You know the little End that last chapter of the series sometimes have? I'm not sure if it is the case every time, but it would be nice to apply filter so that you only include / exclude titles, which has this chapter in list of chapters in selected languages. It is not always the case that title stated as complete is actually finished by a group. It just means that serialisation is finished. I personally really enjoy binge reading Manga, I hate cliffhangers, watching anime series and having to stop after 1st season is just so painful when you know 2nd will come but - who knows when...

 

[solstice258]

Devs have said they're planning on doing that

 

[treng]

Sometimes when i run out of mangas to read in updates, i like to search for completed series to binge, but half of the mangas featured in the advanced search don't have translated chapters that have reached the end of the final chapter. I think it would be cool to have an additional options in the publication status, like a "reached end" checkbox of some sort.

mod note - merged into existing thread

 

[Beregorn]

I understand the "complexity" objection, but I think it is pretty easy to have an at least serviceable definition of "completely scanlated": there is an "end" chapter and there are no missing chapters in between, in at least one of the selected lenguages. Or, in other terms, I can read the whole story.
The acknowledgement of the extra chapters would require massive work for, quite honestly, very little value.

If we REALLY can't check against the selected lenguages, most people will be satisfied with English.

 

[MrIncognito]

I understand the "complexity" objection, but I think it is pretty easy to have an at least serviceable definition of "completely scanlated": there is an "end" chapter and there are no missing chapters in between, in at least one of the selected lenguages.

You'd think, but what about manga which was officially released in parts so there's no whole-numbered chapters (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1...)? If in a manga where that's not the case, does accounting for that mean that 29, 30, 31.5 (end-of-volume omake) counts as a continuous sequence? If in a fragmented chapters manga someone forgets to translate part 4 of a chapter and continues on to the next, would anyone even know? And what about groups that combine fragmented chapters into a whole (and let's be honest, some of those part breaks are arbitrary) when others don't?

As digital manga services becomes more prevalent, fragmented manga is going to become more and more common.

 

[Sunspawn]

The completed filter shows series that finished serialization, not ones that have all of the chapters. Most of the series marked as completed have less than 1/2 of the chapters uploaded. There should be a separation between completion in COO and completion on the site.

mod note - merged into existing thread

 

[-Shox-]

Not sure if it's possible but maybe add a way to search for "completed" series by if it has been uploaded by language, it might not be possible but rather than clicking every series listed as "completed" just to see if it has full translation would be a huge help.

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

Not sure if it's possible but maybe add a way to search for "completed" series by if it has been uploaded by language, it might not be possible but rather than clicking every series listed as "completed" just to see if it has full translation would be a huge help.

The advanced search already allows to search for series with chapters available in certain language(s) only:
However, I think you're misunderstanding the publication status: "Completed" doesn't mean there's a full translation available in ANY language, just that the source material has finished publising.
I don't think there's an easy way for MD to add the functionality you have in mind atp, so you're probably better off using some external site for that...

 

[Angry_Panda]

I don't think there's an easy way for MD to add the functionality you have in mind atp, so you're probably better off using some external site for that...

Not a coder, but my untrained inclination would be to check for the 'completed' status, then check to see if the 'end' chapter is present in the language in question. This doesn't omit titles with missing/removed chapters from coming up, however - that would be a more challenging (and I suspect intensive) check to perform.

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Not a coder, but my untrained inclination would be to check for the 'completed' status, then check to see if the 'end' chapter is present in the language in question. This doesn't omit titles with missing/removed chapters from coming up, however - that would be a more challenging (and I suspect intensive) check to perform.

Maybe do the check after a chapter upload and tag it if the condition applies?
Then it would be a simple tag check for the search

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

This doesn't omit titles with missing/removed chapters from coming up, however - that would be a more challenging (and I suspect intensive) check to perform.

Maybe do the check after a chapter upload and tag it if the condition applies?

Well, the inherent problem with any such solutions is that MD doesn't store any information that could indicate what a complete scanlation even looks like, apart from the final chapter/volume.
Now, for most titles with final chapter X, you'll probably be correct to assume that this means there are X chapters in total, but add in split chapters and extra chapters and things become complicated. And assuming there need to be chapters 1, 2, ..., N for a complete scanlation with final chapter N doesn't work either, once you get to titles where the chapter number resets each volume (or season when it comes to longstrip content).
In any case, that's why I think the current backend doesn't allow for a proper solution without (comparatively speaking) major changes, and it's better to look elsewhere for the time being.
Although we're getting kinda off topic here, and even with those implementation hurdles, it doesn't take away from the suggestion...