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HASTY UPDATE: I was talking about the "follows" tab that is present on the home page of Mangadex. Not the actual "Follows" page, I had no idea that one existed.
I maintain my suggestion, as I got a huge spoiler thrown in my face and that could have been avoided, but, still, my apologies for the misleading explanation below, all this time, when I wrote "follows page", I meant the tab with the same name, shown in the home Mangadex page.
Hey.
I strongly suspect it must have been mentioned before, but ten minutes looking into it returned nothing, so here's for the bug report. Because, yes, in my eyes, this is an actual malfunction, the flaw is too big.
The issue being: when multiple chapters are released all at once for a series, in the "Follows" page of Mangadex, under the series name, it's the newest, latest chapter that has an hyperlink. So, we will carelessly click it, and by the time we understand there's something amiss and we clearly have been missing on stuff, it's too late, we've had spoilers thrown onto our unfortunate soul, scarring it for all eternity.
My suggestion, constructive criticism instead of whining:
- since we have to be logged in to have a Follows page...
- In that Follows page, read from database which is the latest chapter that has had an opened page,
- And in the Follows page...
- Check if there are more than 1 chapters with a bigger chapter number with an unread status,
- And if there are more than one, display "series name, line break, chapters xx-yy", xx being the smaller not read chapter number, yy being the biggest unread chapter number.
...
- or simply write "series name, line break, chapter [smaller unread chapter number] -- and more", the "and more" resulting from reading from database that there are multiple unread chapters with a bigger chapter number.
I maintain my suggestion, as I got a huge spoiler thrown in my face and that could have been avoided, but, still, my apologies for the misleading explanation below, all this time, when I wrote "follows page", I meant the tab with the same name, shown in the home Mangadex page.
Hey.
I strongly suspect it must have been mentioned before, but ten minutes looking into it returned nothing, so here's for the bug report. Because, yes, in my eyes, this is an actual malfunction, the flaw is too big.
The issue being: when multiple chapters are released all at once for a series, in the "Follows" page of Mangadex, under the series name, it's the newest, latest chapter that has an hyperlink. So, we will carelessly click it, and by the time we understand there's something amiss and we clearly have been missing on stuff, it's too late, we've had spoilers thrown onto our unfortunate soul, scarring it for all eternity.
My suggestion, constructive criticism instead of whining:
- since we have to be logged in to have a Follows page...
- In that Follows page, read from database which is the latest chapter that has had an opened page,
- And in the Follows page...
- Check if there are more than 1 chapters with a bigger chapter number with an unread status,
- And if there are more than one, display "series name, line break, chapters xx-yy", xx being the smaller not read chapter number, yy being the biggest unread chapter number.
...
- or simply write "series name, line break, chapter [smaller unread chapter number] -- and more", the "and more" resulting from reading from database that there are multiple unread chapters with a bigger chapter number.