Non-Intrusive Ads… for a Short While

[ireadit]

Good:

• Static images for ads. Good job!
• Ad is only for a somewhat sketchy Chinese software product (Opera GX), it could be worse. I suppose there isn't a lot of choice in advertising partners for a site like MangaDex.

Bad:

• Ad takes up half the page, but you still call it "non-intrusive". Come on. At least make the banner a bit smaller so that people can actually use the site without an ad blocker.

 

[finalm]

So let me get this straight, the current state of the site is as follows:
1. It's pretty much hated by most groups, many of which refuse to upload here anymore. Scratch being scanlator friendly then.
2. Begs for donations but refuses to be transparent about finances.
3. Stuffs ads for scams and malware, having the gall to call them "non-intrusive".

That's probably more shady than most aggregators. However, unlike them they still obey DMCAs. Might makes right I suppose, but remind me, why should it still exist? Other than an additional source of ravenue for Henry's "business" schemes, I mean.

 

[hugh_neutron]

This is honestly disgraceful. Nobody in their right mind could call this "non-intrusive". It's so obnoxious that it actively impairs the use of the site. It's right there in the middle of the series page, taking up so much space that on a standard 1080p monitor you can't even see any chapters without scrolling down.

It's over
Are there even any other sites to migrate to? Comick was screwed too

 

[Ayazel]

This garbage of a website is reaching its expiration date. Pack up your stuff and get ready to move.

 

[PeopsSplex]

This garbage of a website is reaching its expiration date. Pack up your stuff and get ready to move.

Make me

 

[Manko-sensei]

Stubborn people are so funny.

But you're not funny

 

[BestBoy]

Now this is the doomposting I was hoping for!

 

[finalm]

But you're not funny

That's why we need you to make up the difference, Pussy-sensei!

 

[AbuHajaar]

Someone told me that my previous comment seems to have been deleted. It was not in violation of any rules and I did not receive any notice of its removal.

For those with uBlock, add this to your filter:

mangadex.org/promo/*$image

 

[Gabriel434]

Creators are going to make less than they do now if they go subscription if you think about it Coins at least give some level of correlation to costs that each series gets. What's the subscription equivalent? Views? What is some subscriptions reads more series than others? Or one subscription reads only 1 series then unsubscribes at the end of the month? Think they're gonna give majority of that to that one creator?

Subs are good for fans, bad for creators
Coins are "bad" for fans, better than subs for creators

While I'd love Mangadex becoming the Crunchyroll of manga, I have to admit you're right about subscriptions
If manga artists don't get the money they deserve from subscriptions, and instead the platform profits (e.g., Spotify paying dimes to musicians), there's indeed a net loss for the industry

I guess I will have to temper my aversion to coins and use them after all

 

[Fidelas]

It's over
Are there even any other sites to migrate to? Comick was screwed too

I moved over to Suwayomi/Tachidesk after Comick got blown up. You get the broad/unethical libraries of things like Bato and MangaPark while not having to put up with ads and their god awful readers.

 

[HaikenEdge]

Also, how long is "a short while"? Without an actual given end date, "short" can become relative to "eternity".

 

[Porcelinesalt]

didn't we once had this conversation and only ended up with that shitty chinese game(?) (emphasis on question mark)

i remember the girl looked cute in that banner. I think

 

[feha]

I moved over to Suwayomi/Tachidesk after Comick got blown up. You get the broad/unethical libraries of things like Bato and MangaPark while not having to put up with ads and their god awful readers.

Fairly sure those does not exist. Can only find entries that refer to them as apps, but I am not going to run an android emulator to read manga on my computer

 

[JVick]

Fairly sure those does not exist. Can only find entries that refer to them as apps, but I am not going to run an android emulator to read manga on my computer

Then do your own API calls, MangaDex even published a tutorial to do it.

 

[feha]

Then do your own API calls, MangaDex even published a tutorial to do it.

If you are talking about MD, then I already do, it is how my userscript works.

I wasn't even aware of suwayomi and tachidesk before that comment, and much less aware of them having an api, and even less aware of md having published a tutorial on tose 2's api.

 

[finalm]

Fairly sure those does not exist. Can only find entries that refer to them as apps, but I am not going to run an android emulator to read manga on my computer

It's a java app so no need for an emulator (other than a JVM), but yeah it's an app you need on your machine. I honestly don't know why they did it this way, but guessing by the fact that you run both client and server, maybe it's some sort of p2p network? The github of the project says nothing of substance on it though, so that's already a failiure.

 

[JVick]

If you are talking about MD, then I already do, it is how my userscript works.

I wasn't even aware of suwayomi and tachidesk before that comment, and much less aware of them having an api, and even less aware of md having published a tutorial on tose 2's api.

EDIT : too lazy to argue about the lazy ways of other pirates on a soon-to-be ads-infested DMCA claimed website

 

[Angry_Panda]

You don't say? The only humor is reading each Mdex bootlickers defense for big papa aggregator. You're doing fantastic, champ.

There's also the humor of a bunch of people who clearly haven't read the terms of service demanding changes to them.

 

[finalm]

There's also the humor of a bunch of people who clearly haven't read the terms of service demanding changes to them.

You mean the ones about advertisments and third party content? That have been added recently (likely with the launch of the non-intrusiveness)? You do realize that this approach of "we can do anything and are responsible for nothing" has already been tested in court and stood up poorly, right? Any jackass can write crap to that effect, it does not mean much in the event of real, provable damages. Especially since there are clauses that are clearly a joke, given the nature of the site (like 3.1.7 and 3.1.8). So yeah, not much of ass coverage provided, but by all means, let them continue to host scam ads so it can be tested again. At the very least the identities of the guys involved will become public knowledge.