Hey there. Long time user of the main site, been on it a few years just bookmarking stuff to read whenever. Never actually realized there was even a forum until I saw posts about this whole purge situation on another platform, so I came to check myself a couple of days ago. When I tried to access forum posts simply to read, however, it did force me to have an account for it which was automatically linked to the same email as my main one.
Thanks for the info. Did you ever read chapter comments prior to this?
I did like that office lady yuri part of it and feel like this doujin brings up some interesting circumstances for the staff to consider. I understand the way these titles were removed was a product of the urgency with which they needed to be removed, but since there is discussion of restoring the titles sans chapters, I wonder if non-offending chapters could be restored.
If you can't read stuff it's fine.
MD will generally extend group locks even if they're past the threshold of inactivity if mods can make contact with the group and the group asks them to stay locked. But if the group simply disappears off the face of the Earth, which happens often enough, or the group publicly disbands themselves, then the group lock is removed.
Eh, I don't view groups as owning that copyright. Right to Translation is owned by either the authors or the publishers (depending on the contract). It's covered in the Berne Convention.
Who the fuck keep random screenshots of a website around? The manga panels are images, if I needed something I grabbed the image directly and cut it down to size. Y'all are so obsessed with inserting a "outside agitator" narrative that you forget that the vast majority of this websites daily hits come from people without accounts.
Tristan9 helped with MDv5? That explains a lot. I miss v4
I doubt so, if im to guess whats a suppposed plan they had is, continue with the facade of fan-2-fan site while getting money from ads subs and censoring things "slowly" and shape it like they want in the end.
there are at least 50 shades of goon. I am wondering what is the next shade they will come for, after loli purge. I remember the initial shade was "eww you are 11 why are you watching cartoons". So I don't think there will be lack of excuse against each genre.
Some weird people seem to think you and Yuri are "problematic " .maybe it will be femboys/crossdressing or just large amounts of gore. Who knows?
Yeah, I was about to say. I was shocked when I happened upon an old manga penned by the same person responsible for Tsuredzure Children, and the first comment for the first chapter (incidentally posted around the same year I started using Mangadex by incidence, but without involving myself in forum discussion) was something like, "this marks the end of MD's loli hentai era".
if that's the case then trying to go corporate and legal if those rumors are true, would be stupid before they fix the issue, because their site is accessible in the EU they would be in trouble with GDPR right to be removed, bad database design is not considered a valid excuse for holding on to data should a user want to be removed, so creating a legal identity in the form of a company that could face heavy fines from the EU would be a bad idea. (technically a piracy site would still need to follow GDPR, there is not an exception made for illegal sites, but i doubt the EU would bother trying to enforce GDPR on a piracy site, but them going corporate would make them fair game)
They don't need to go legal, they can keep things as of now in the grey zone and ramp up the monetization from donations, support, and ads, so they only need to make it a bit more ad-friendly.
that would be a smart thing to do, i was specifically pointing to the rumors of them doing a Crunchyroll and becoming a legal corporate entity as something stupid.
