Reading tag / Completed / On Hold / Follow tag / what ever it is dissappearing one by one

[Serelanordir]

i notice theres been disappearance of my Reading tag on the Manga that i tag , by randomly dissappearing from my follow tag , its been like this for a 2 month , and recently the Level 1 Dakedo Unique Skill de Saikyou desu that i tag long ago , i notice it didnt have my tag , and just by checking it on follow too , it doesnt appear until theres an Update of the Manga in the Main page ( i mean i saw it on main page )

i have alot of manga that i follow tag , and probably some of them gone by now

 

[Serelanordir]

Update 1 : Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken - Machigatta Ko wo Mahou Shoujo ni shite shimatta - Orc ga Okashite Kurenai! - 12 Beast - Dokunie Cooking - Ane Naru Mono, were got off / not on my Reading tag anymore while i was searching for something to read

 

[Holo]

As far as we know, there is no reason why this should ever happen. The only way follows get removed is by manually unfollowing.

 

[Serelanordir]

but somehow it got unfollowed

and the thing is , most of the time i found out about it after checking out the 6h 24h 7d popularity or the main page / new updated manga and finds out that it wasnt marked anymore , and also from searching by tag ( i mean tag like Action/ Adventure / Romance / you know it )

 

[Serelanordir]

Update 2 : Yowai 5000-nen no Soushoku Dragon, Iware naki Jaryuu Nintei , just found out recently that it doesnt have my follow tag

 

[Dreik]

Just noticed this myself. Couple days ago i added this manga https://mangadex.org/title/35858 and i'm 100% sure it was set to "On-Hold", but today it was updated with a chapter and it wasn't in my follows.

 

[acs87]

Perhaps you don’t have a strong internet connection? Requests don’t tend to complete if you leave the page, so the request cancels and doesn’t finish. Maybe?

 

[ryaann]

it happens to me too..
I'm following Solo Leveling ..
But whenever it updated it's never showing up in my "follow" section..

i only know it's updated when scrolling to "top chapters" section..

 

[Serelanordir]

hmmm

 

[ZaxaPac]

Here's a weird question: are you guys modifying the follow status at all? Like, if you go to the Follows link at the top of page, the default showing in the Latest updates tab is only for series that you have set to Reading (at least it is for me), so if you have those series on anything other than Reading, then it won't show on that page. You would need to change to All if you want to see the updates for every different status at once. I only ask because of this comment:

i'm 100% sure it was set to "On-Hold", but today it was updated with a chapter and it wasn't in my follows.

If that's not the case, then I really don't know why it would be randomly dropping your follows.

 

[Dreik]

@ZaxaPac
I was referring to the "On-Hold" in MDList not in the Follows page. The manga i mentioned in the comment above was completely removed from my list.

 

[Soulwarfare]

Yeah I have been noticing that manga series that I have been following, suddenly get unfollowed automatically after a while for no reason whatsoever.

I then have to follow it again!

 

[Pika]

Whelp, it also happened to me too now. I have followed Hakka Shoujo since Batoto and I'm pretty sure I have read several of the previous chapters here. Two days ago it updated but I didn't see it in my follows because it was somehow unfollowed.

 

[Teasday]

Some kind of 3rd party shenanigans notwithstanding, there really is only a single way a followed manga should get unfollowed on MangaDex, and that's by pressing the unfollow button and explicitly OK'ing the dialog. Looking at the code, that is literally the only entry point for deleting a follow row from the database, and despite some of the spaghetti, it's pretty unambiguous.

The only other way I would expect follows to get dropped would be if there's a bug somewhere that updates the follows wrong - for example, the user id somehow getting mixed up - but I'm not seeing anything that would suggest it could happen, and I don't think anybody has ever complained that they're randomly gaining new follows which would be expected.

Certainly it would make no sense that the database itself is somehow bugged and dropping rows randomly, because not only is that just not how databases work, but if it did surely it would affect some of the several other tables as well and not just this particular follows one.

There are enough reports of these "random unfollows" happening that it's difficult to just dismiss it, but I can't find any logical way it would be happening by accident. The only things that makes sense to me would be:
- the user misremembers following a title on MangaDex
- the user intentionally unfollowed one but forgot about it
- the user's little brother is pulling an epic prank on them and unfollowing titles
- the user tried following a title but due to 503 / DDoS protection / whatever freak accident the follow didn't actually go through and the user didn't notice
- the user does in fact properly follow a title but due to some unknown bug it's not showing up in the Follows page (which would be different from the follow being randomly deleted)
- some kind of a 3rd party issue that I have no idea about (tachiyomi?)

All this said, the part of the code that defines the actions does need to get completely rewritten eventually. Hopefully that magically solves the issue, whever we get to that.

 

[Serelanordir]

Recenltly found out this one Berserk of Gluttony