Is there option to hide chapters by Official Publisher from Latest Updates?

[BladyPiter]

Sometimes those take several pages in row, it makes browsing unnecessary tedious.

 

[Beregorn]

And now it's 83 😭

143 now, this is getting ridiculous...

 

[Aldemberg]

Your best option is to block the publisher, using the block button on their 'group' page.View attachment 66312

my hero!
love ya!!

 

[Mangamoz]

I've done it a few times now, but I always feel bad when I block an official publisher. Reading uploads from unofficial scanlators is already in that weird gray area of legality and there's always that sort of pressure that I should read the officially licensed stuff (especially if the scanlator says it directly in their chapter notes)...

But when an official publisher does come by and has their links actually uploaded and I have the chance to read from someone that did support the author... Rather than finally supporting the author, I almost always find some reason to end up blocking them. They're too spammy / they're 3 years behind the current scanlators / they only upload the first chapter of each volume / they upload the chapters in parts when everything else has them in a convenient whole chapter that makes either of them annoying to read.

Official publishers are usually just this these days, don't feel bad about it;

 

[mongol13]

Sometimes those take several pages in row, it makes browsing unnecessary tedious.

Several, yeah. I am in no shape or form kidding you right now- I've scrolled through 58 (!!!) pages of what seems 4 titles in total where "official publisher" is basically spamming entire website of their garbage site where- and that is just baffling- you cannot even read it as-is anything beyond first ~3 freebie chapters without paying. Please correct me if I'm wrong - which is very likely - but wasn't there a drama here a around 2019 about various scanlation groups posting chapters from different titles in exactly the same way, including links to their paywalled sites, and they were simply kicked out en masse for violating ToS? Why MD is allowing it now? Sure, I can (and will) block that spammer accounts but it really makes you feel like there are double standards.

 

[saitohd]

MD should just add one link in the header of the title page to the english publishers title page and thats it.
the vast majority of these links dont take you to the chapter anyway but to the page of the title instead.

This would be my ideal solution too.

 

[se4ring]

The site has been completely unusable lately because of the publisher spam Jesus Christ.

 

[Hicleric]

Is it finally over? Can we drop a in the chat comfortably now?

 

[Bat_FF]

related to this, can we have an option to hide chapters that only redirect outside MD? We have already the icon to distinguish them from others.

 

[mug3n]

I think a lot of this nonsense could be avoided by putting a single link to the series in the official publisher site, just at the top of each title as a reminder people have a legal way to read it if they want.

If publishers want to let people know when they released the last chapter, then they should be doing what Jump does. This situation is just making people hating official publishers (even more) for something they didn't do and turning away. If this is a mangadex initiative to have publishers on their good side, this should have been managed silently, why punish the readers.