MangaDex Suggested Features: Megathread

[Rehab]

what about adding the statu for people who read the manga
I mean l want to know the number of people reading /dropped /plan to read it..... etc
When i add something to any list (on hold-plan -dropped) i don't want the page to reload
Mobile application
Deleting comments
Thanks for your efforts

 

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[ul]
Rather than an option to completely hide the sidebar menu, can't you just replace it with a burger button on the top bar?

Instead of the top bar always being visible, can it just be autohidden after scrolling down? At the very least for long strip readers.
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Those are my two biggest pet peeves with the reader other than the ugly page list/progress bar at the bottom which also takes up screen space. Honestly, if you felt the need to add that page list then there's something wrong with the sidebar menu and that should be fixed instead of duplicating.

 

[Teasday]

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Rather than an option to completely hide the sidebar menu, can't you just replace it with a burger button on the top bar?

Instead of the top bar always being visible, can it just be autohidden after scrolling down? At the very least for long strip readers.

Those are my two biggest pet peeves with the reader other than the ugly page list/progress bar at the bottom which also takes up screen space. Honestly, if you felt the need to add that page list then there's something wrong with the sidebar menu and that should be fixed instead of duplicating.

Not necessarily, since hiding the top bar is also an option. If someone hides both, while they still technically have the ability to bring them back up with keyboard shortcuts, they might not realize that's an option.

I have some plans to improve it, yes.

I don't know what's so particularly ugly about the page bar, but you can hide it too. The reason it's visible by default is so that people who would like it are immediately aware it exists as an option.

 

[gosling11]

Follow up to my previous suggestion for Follows:
So rather than putting in the latest chapter, I think it's better to make the unread chapters stay. Like, the chapters shouldn't show up after being marked as read. Anyway, the current Follows is just too bloated.
Thanks for the hard work!

 

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Not necessarily, since hiding the top bar is also an option. If someone hides both, while they still technically have the ability to bring them back up with keyboard shortcuts, they might not realize that's an option.

Couldn't it just be made to reappear when mouse is at top of page or when the user quickly scrolls up a certain amount?

 

[kinshiki]

It would be great to have an offline mode

 

[Teasday]

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Couldn't it just be made to reappear when mouse is at top of page or when the user quickly scrolls up a certain amount?

We can't really solely rely on mouse hovering with anything because of touchscreens devices that don't use mice. The scrolling up thing is a separate matter, and like I said, I have plans to improve the layouts.

 

[kuroneko66]

I think a raw/translation “forecast” on the manga’s title page would be nice. Making it so that you can quickly tell at a glance when the next chapter is going to be published and how long after a group is intending to put out their translation. Maybe also go a step farther and make a tab/page to see what on your reading list has chapters coming up and when.

I made a thread where I go into the finer details here:
https://mangadex.org/thread/27976

 

[elemhunter]

How about an RSS feed for genres? You could easily hack together your own RSS, but an official method would be nice. For example:
https://mangadex.org/?page=search&source_lang=2&genres_inc=21

 

[Sype]

I see more and more group who ask Mangadex to remove their chapters, and they entirely have the right to, even if I’m sad to see removed manga. BUT instead of just remove everything, why not keep the data about the chapters they translated without the images and show the link to the group's website as when a chapter has a delay.

So, MangaDex could still be a database of the translation work when the group don't want Mangadex to host the chapter. With a distinct appearance and a way to filter them.
Both groups and readers could keep enjoy the great update and search features of Mangadex.
(I am not a native English speaker, forgive mistakes)

 

[Nightwolf]

What about user/profile reputation? Something similar was on Batoto.

 

[BlackOgre]

Let me search for what's new. So like "i want to search for comedy manga which was released this year." or something. Since i have searched for most genres, i want the ability to keep myself up to date with whats new without the need to check everyday on the latest list which isn't particularly long and updates often (removes things fast).

 

[TomKeizer]

Haven't seen tag description when searching. I yoinked the description from batoto(in the spoiler) if you guys are too lazy describe the tags. Please add other tags that are not inluded. Thank you.

Spoiler

•4-Koma - "A comic-strip format, generally consists of gag comic strips within four panels of equal size ordered from top to bottom."
•Action - "A work typically depicting fighting, violence, chaos, and fast paced motion."
•Adventure - "If a character in the story goes on a trip or along that line, your best bet is that it is an adventure manga. Otherwise, it's up to your personal prejudice on this case."
•Award Winning - "A comic that has won an award. The award must be given by an acknowledged awarding body."
•Comedy - "A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict."
•Cooking - "A comic based on cooking"
•Doujinshi - "Fan based work inspired by official anime or manga. Original works DO NOT fall under this category."
•Drama - "A work meant to bring on an emotional response, such as instilling sadness or tension."
•Ecchi - "Ecchi is used to describe a category of manga and anime with sexually oriented content, that is common in works aimed at a predominantly male audience."
•Fantasy - "Anything that involves, but not limited to, magic, dream world, and fairy tales."
•Gender Bender - "Girls dressing up as guys, guys dressing up as girls... Guys turning into girls, girls turning into guys... I think you get the picture."
•Harem - "A series involving one male character and many female characters (usually attracted to the male character). A Reverse Harem is when the genders are reversed."
•Historical - "Having to do with old or ancient times."
•Horror - "A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking."
•Josei - "Literally 'Woman'. Targets women 18-30. Female equivalent to seinen. Unlike shoujo the romance is more realistic and less idealized. The storytelling is more explicit and mature."
•Martial Arts - "As the name suggests, anything martial arts related. Any of several arts of combat or self-defense, such as aikido, karate, judo, or tae kwon do, kendo, fencing, and so on and so forth."
•Mecha - "A work involving and usually concentrating on all types of large robotic machines."
•Medical - "Comics about doctors, nurses, etc. around the field of medicine."
•Music - "A music themed story."
•Mystery - "Usually an unexplained event occurs, and the main protagonist attempts to find out what caused it."
•Oneshot - "A one-shot is a comic book that is a pilot or a stand-alone story created as a single issue, rather than the more typical series format."
•Psychological - "Usually deals with the philosophy of a state of mind, in most cases detailing abnormal psychology."
•Romance - "Any love related story. We will define love as between man and woman in this case. Other than that, it is up to your own imagination of what love is."
•School Life - "Having a major setting of the story deal with some type of school."
•Sci-fi - "Short for science fiction, these works involve twists on technology and other science related phenomena which are contrary or stretches of the modern day scientific world."
•Seinen - "Seinen means 'young Man'. Manga and anime that specifically targets young adult males around the ages of 18 to 25 are seinen titles. The stories in seinen works appeal to university students and those in the working world. Typically the story lines deal with the issues of adulthood."
•Shoujo - "A work intended and primarily written for females. Usually involves a lot of romance and strong character development."
•Shoujo Ai - "Often synonymous with yuri, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme.'Girl's Love', so to speak."
•Shounen - "A work intended and primarily written for males. These works usually involve fighting and/or violence."
•Shounen Ai - "Often synonymous with yaoi, this can be thought of as somewhat less extreme. 'Boy's Love', so to speak."
•Slice of Life - "As the name suggests, this genre represents day-to-day tribulations of one/many character(s). These challenges/events could technically happen in real life and are often -if not all the time- set in the present timeline in a world that mirrors our own."
•Smut - "Deals with series that are considered profane or offensive, particularly with regards to sexual content."
•Sports - "As the name suggests, anything sports related. Baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, golf, and racing just to name a few."
•Supernatural - "Usually entails amazing and unexplained powers or events which defy the laws of physics."
•Tragedy - "Contains events resulting in great loss and misfortune."
•Webtoon - "A webtoon is a comic strip that is distributed via the Web. Usually webtoons are drawn in full color and read in one long strip per chapter."
•Yaoi - "This work usually involves intimate relationships between men."
•Yuri - "This work usually involves intimate relationships between women."
•[no chapters] - "This is obviously not a genre. It's here to ease the use of the search function on Batoto. (Until we have something more fitting.)"

edit: I just looked up the suggestion list and it's already suggested here. Apologies for the repost. I'm just gonna leave this here for the description.

 

[tathra]

the "stats" for a manga page should have a second "files" entry to show all files uploaded, in addition to the one showing files uploaded in a user's preferred language. clicking on the "total files" stat should bring up a the number of files/chapters for each language that has chapters uploaded

 

[Raebit]

1. Can we make a list that when we search something it wont pop up in search? //For example : I dont like manga A, B , and C , i make a list based on that so i wont see it keep popping when i search genre i want.

2 . Maybe when searching genre for example comedy, add option sort by ranking/title/etc?

 

[Ruiruru]

Regarding MD List.

Just wanna suggest a way to sort the MD list according to the user's own rating (not the average rating which I see has been implemented). Somehing similar to MAL where it can sort the manga/anime in my list in ascending/descending order according to how I rated it.

Just seems pretty useful when stalking other's lists to see what they rated high, etc.

But aside from that, good job on MD. <3

 

[Douteigami]

I know "More genres and tags will be added, how many and which ones are still being considered." but I would like something better than most sites have instead of lumping everything together. Like placing shojo shonen josei seinen as demographic categories. Settings categories like fantasy, historical, sci-fi, school life, etc. Theme categories like mystery, adventure, comedy, romance, etc. I don't know how functional it would be, but I always thought separating the tags/genres makes it easier to search.

 

[Teasday]

@Douteigami Yeah, separating the tags based on certain criteria is planned. The current draft could use some more categorization, so thanks for the reminder.

 

[Kisato]

So some manga aren't on MD due to official releases, group policies, or just not being translated yet, and so I was wondering if it would be possible to have a read chapter tracker that's isolated from the site read chapters toggle. For example, Baku no Hero: Vigilantes has it's chapters on Viz, but I'd like to have a place to keep track of it on MD.

 

[Teasday]

@Kisato The read markers track chapters by their IDs, not by volume/chapter number and there are no plans to either change that behaviour or to add a different kind for off-site manga.