MangaPlus support
We also have another announcement to make regarding a new site feature.
MangaPlus is the official aggregator of Shonen Jump and Shueisha. The chapters they publish are completely free for everyone to read. We've decided to support them by linking to their chapters on our own series listings. The chapters will redirect you to the MangaPlus website to read the chapter, but you can still comment on the chapter here on MangaDex in our chapter threads. Please shower them with your continued support!
We aren't in any way affiliated with MangaPlus nor were we asked to do this.
We may choose to support other free publishers in the future, but it would require users to assist us with the chapter submissions. M+ will be our trial run.
In the near future you will be able to hide groups that you don't wish to appear.
And the dead links argument doesn't work, because we will be making dead links unavailable, so they wouldn't appear usually (unless you choose to enable them).
In addition, we have no plans to stop hosting other chapters, so I'm not sure where that idea came from.
Linking to free official chapters has been a highly requested feature, so at least some people want this. Judging by the comments here and elsewhere, it would appear there is an overwhelming majority who do support this. Those of you who don't like it - wait for the ability to hide groups.