I mean if they had chosen to translate those chapters for their own personal use and refused to make them available publicly, would you also complain?
Yes, because that would be a waste. Just like uploading to only their site where the vast majority of people won't see it, outside who might see it from a Reddit post.
Stop acting like some entitled brat.
It's not being entitled to wish for a better experience for everyone. The same way me wishing for raises at a company isn't being entitled, because it also can help others.
Unless you're the one paying for their maintenance and upkeep (and let's face it, you're not), that's their problem, not yours.
It
is my problem though because the sites frequently are slow, broken in various ways (often times with page turning on mobile if it's not strip view), and the teams have no one on staff that can really maintain them, because again it's copy paste.
But remembering all the names of the Japanese manga you follow is not a problem?
No, because I don't memorize them, I recognize them.
Once upon a time, browsers introduced features such as "favorites", "browsing history", and "session restore" so you wouldn't have to remember anything. Maybe it's time you learned how to use them.
I don't use a browser to read, I use mangadex as a PWA. I don't want to favorite 100+ manga. browsing history is deleted or flooded often by other things. Session restore would open over a hundred tabs and my phone is older. Maybe it's time you opened your mind a bit.
Ever heard of "ad blockers"?
I shouldn't need an ad-blocker because there shouldn't be ads. Outside of the fact that scanlating stuff is technically illegal, the ads at best are wildly intrusive on sites, and at worst malicious with pop-ups, and beneficial to nobody because there's really no money in scanlating unless you're actively scamming people (both staff. If you're just going to block them anyways why have them?
MangaDex respects scanlators and publishers alike. If scanlators don't want their stuff uploaded here, MangaDex will remove them. And if publishers want chapters taken down, they will.
Chapters lost to the void?
Happens here all the time.
Crazy how that works. You have to respect DMCA? No way! Official publishers will go after individual sites as well. But notice how you never see respectable scanlators (outside of official translations) ask mangadex to take down chapters? Because they recognize that MangaDex is just the best experience for people to see the work they did for that chapter. Even official TLs sometimes don't take down chapters for less popular English things. Which kind of leads me to the next point.
You're not generating any ad revenue for them from visiting MangaDex, so why would they care about visibility? Donations?
It's crazy how profit oriented half the stuff you've written is. Have you ever considered that maybe people just want to translate things people are going to read to make themselves feel good? Being on MD makes it easier to find staff because people want to work on things they're both interested
and that people care about rather than putting out a chapter that gets no engagement in comments, no thanks from anyone, and it feels like you're just wasting you time. C'mon at least put some thought in to this one. But if you really want a source, you can use some basic reasoning: Notice how most of the groups on their own sites used to post to, or presently post late to MangaDex? That's all the proof you need - they still need the attention from MangaDex to maintain numbers. Unless your advertising or have some insane SEO, the amount of people you'll get is 0. Publishers also probably recognize this, which is why they leave some chapters around on Mangadex once stuff gets an official translation, as a sort of taste to get them to buy the volumes/pay for the service. Any stuff that can drive big numbers and advertise itself on varous platforms is removed, like Demon Slayer you linked, or One Piece, etc.
They're both online. If you have to "walk" to get to a scanlator's site, you have to walk the same to reach MangaDex.
It's like you don't know the follow button exists on Mangadex or that outside readers that pull from Mangadex's API exist. I never have to leave mangadex for any of the 159 manga I'm reading. If I had to guess there's probably maybe 80 groups working on them across it? You want me to go to 80 different sites to read because they want to be quirky instead of uploading to what is just objectively the better platform? Free hosting for them, zero ads for us and it's all central. Can even drop a Kofi link if you really want the money.
This forum, for example, is
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Gestures at the entire rest of the site.
