[Recommended section] Make historical recommended manga suggestions visible

[kwadracik]

Sometimes when I don't know what to pick up I go into the Recommended section which I find to be usually a really interesting set of manga - though it seems to undergo changes in an irregular manner, at least from my point of view.

This makes me feel like I might miss manga I could really like, some of my favourites came from taking a gamble on a series there - could we have an option to see historic values for the recommended section, like "show what was recommended on X day" or simply "show previous recommended manga" with a list of all updates? Probably not retroactively, but from now on.

An alternative suggestion - Recommended could have an alternate option for a list which does not have titles removed from it, in addition to the current one - even if the manga is not accessible due to circumstances it could be a good pointer to what is worth picking up.

One could argue sorting by score serves the same purpose then, but I would disagree - I find the selection in Recommended set more interesting to check out, as top scores have a different selection of manga when it comes to vibes and Recommended lets the "not top of the list" titles shine as well. Not sure how exactly it works under the hood, but I like how it spotlights titles I probably wouldn't find easily otherwise.

 

[Bartolumiu]

Sometimes when I don't know what to pick up I go into the Recommended section which I find to be usually a really interesting set of manga - though it seems to undergo changes in an irregular manner, at least from my point of view.

This makes me feel like I might miss manga I could really like, some of my favourites came from taking a gamble on a series there - could we have an option to see historic values for the recommended section, like "show what was recommended on X day" or simply "show previous recommended manga" with a list of all updates? Probably not retroactively, but from now on.

An alternative suggestion - Recommended could have an alternate option for a list which does not have titles removed from it, in addition to the current one - even if the manga is not accessible due to circumstances it could be a good pointer to what is worth picking up.

One could argue sorting by score serves the same purpose then, but I would disagree - I find the selection in Recommended set more interesting to check out, as top scores have a different selection of manga when it comes to vibes and Recommended lets the "not top of the list" titles shine as well. Not sure how exactly it works under the hood, but I like how it spotlights titles I probably wouldn't find easily otherwise.

With "recommended section" do you mean the recommendations carousel from the homepage, or the recommendations tab from title entry pages?
If it's the latter, then there's no way for us to retrieve past iterations for those, since they're dynamically created once a day.
If on the contrary you meant the ones from the homepage, I have a compilation of all the past monthly carousels on my profile, so when did you see the entry?

 

[kwadracik]

Thanks for the reply! Sorry for not specifying - I meant the Recommended list that has main page presence below Latest Updates, above Self-Published. Its details (and more recommendations) are accessible at - https://mangadex.org/titles/recommended.

I think these would be the ones recreated once a day unfortunately, if I'm not wrong

Though even if past lists cannot be fetched, maybe it would be worth it to somehow have a list of all series that managed to get a spot there from now on as a separate option, if possible? Kind of a recommended hall-of-fame if it makes sense.

 

[Bartolumiu]

Thanks for the reply! Sorry for not specifying - I meant the Recommended list that has main page presence below Latest Updates, above Self-Published. Its details (and more recommendations) are accessible at - https://mangadex.org/titles/recommended.

I think these would be the ones recreated once a day unfortunately, if I'm not wrong

Though even if past lists cannot be fetched, maybe it would be worth it to somehow have a list of all series that managed to get a spot there from now on as a separate option, if possible? Kind of a recommended hall-of-fame if it makes sense.

Ah no, those are the monthly ones.
I was going to just share the "MDLists" tab from my profile since I have all the previous lists, but I found a bug that only shows 10 lists instead of every public list I have, so here you go, all the archived lists individually:

July 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/d2c4dd10-5ca0-4415-ac30-8d15d2005c0d
August 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/5c36365b-5bb4-4817-92ce-a5f23cc3752f
September 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/7e72a7f1-d0a2-4d8f-8842-2153f50ca0f2
October 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/c6fdfa1e-e5d3-4949-a6ce-3eed3e157c34
November 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/8f29ec49-96a8-47f4-9101-547ffd69fca6
December 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/4a0cbb8a-8ef7-4738-98ca-92226ba51e4d
January 2026: https://mangadex.org/list/25619641-2403-4060-9b9a-0870c9900f22
February 2026: https://mangadex.org/list/07435d79-d943-487c-ac7c-772543eb6029
March 2026: https://mangadex.org/list/59945d48-1615-42cd-95e6-d0babca77020

 

[kwadracik]

Thanks a lot for the links, couldn't find those - will be really helpful for me.

Might be nice to have those lists somehow easily accessible from the Recommended section, but I think if those are tracked like this right now it's not as needed as I thought - thanks again!

 

[Angry_Panda]

Ah no, those are the monthly ones.
I was going to just share the "MDLists" tab from my profile since I have all the previous lists, but I found a bug that only shows 10 lists instead of every public list I have, so here you go, all the archived lists individually:

July 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/d2c4dd10-5ca0-4415-ac30-8d15d2005c0d
August 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/5c36365b-5bb4-4817-92ce-a5f23cc3752f
September 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/7e72a7f1-d0a2-4d8f-8842-2153f50ca0f2
October 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/c6fdfa1e-e5d3-4949-a6ce-3eed3e157c34
November 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/8f29ec49-96a8-47f4-9101-547ffd69fca6
December 2025: https://mangadex.org/list/4a0cbb8a-8ef7-4738-98ca-92226ba51e4d
January 2026: https://mangadex.org/list/25619641-2403-4060-9b9a-0870c9900f22
February 2026: https://mangadex.org/list/07435d79-d943-487c-ac7c-772543eb6029
March 2026: https://mangadex.org/list/59945d48-1615-42cd-95e6-d0babca77020

Thanks a lot for the links, couldn't find those - will be really helpful for me.

Might be nice to have those lists somehow easily accessible from the Recommended section, but I think if those are tracked like this right now it's not as needed as I thought - thanks again!

I had made the suggestion somewhere (translation: I can't be assed to look for it right now) that each of the titles that were on one of these lists have a comment added to their description to reflect that (and maybe a link to that list). Not at all critical, but would be a nice note so people can work back to those.

Thanks Barto!

 

[Bartolumiu]

I had made the suggestion somewhere (translation: I can't be assed to look for it right now) that each of the titles that were on one of these lists have a comment added to their description to reflect that (and maybe a link to that list). Not at all critical, but would be a nice note so people can work back to those.

Thanks Barto!

I think something like that got mentioned internally (or maybe it was for the seasonal carousel, idk anymore, too much stuff to handle rn )