Site Update - 14th of May 2025

[Thelegendarytaeyamada]

I'm a bit surprised this didn't happen earlier, to be honest...

 

[havelmom]

Did you link the wrong post? That one doesn't say anything about being able to export your reading list. Better late than never I guess, glad the DMCAs are making someone get off their ass.

you're right, I confused the chapter list with reading list post
this is the post I was supposed to link
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/site-update-14th-of-may-2025.2274813/page-2#post-26267100

also note that you can also just use a script to scrape your own reading list
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...-my-library-into-a-file.1171941/post-24414987

 

[jeezits]

What's going to happen in the end is everyone is going to return to personal storage.

There didn't used to be ten thousand pirate (and this includes MD, sorry) manga sites with easy to read online chapters. Web storage/bandwidth was a premium; any method of doing it where people reading your scans spent less time downloading from your site was good.

We're going back to hoarding on our own hdd's again. Nice that now you can buy a couple terabytes worth of thumbdrives for pennies at least.

 

[saitohd]

What's going to happen in the end is everyone is going to return to personal storage.

There didn't used to be ten thousand pirate (and this includes MD, sorry) manga sites with easy to read online chapters. Web storage/bandwidth was a premium; any method of doing it where people reading your scans spent less time downloading from your site was good.

We're going back to hoarding on our own hdd's again. Nice that now you can buy a couple terabytes worth of thumbdrives for pennies at least.

Can't wait to go back to having to use mIRC to get the chapters like the good old days before manga readers got popular. Although it was simpler back then when I was reading like 20 series at most, not now at 2k+.

 

[jeezits]

It generally solves the problem of hosting at least. Nothing to DMCA strike if it's being hosted on tens of thousand of anime background PCs (not your phone because lolololololololol if you think a smartphone isn't the property of your service provider and can't be remotely rooted for the benefit of a IP holder if they so choose. check your contract...)

 

[bondejeger]

Can't wait to go back to having to use mIRC to get the chapters like the good old days before manga readers got popular. Although it was simpler back then when I was reading like 20 series at most, not now at 2k+.

I haven’t used XDCC in over ten years I think. Used to be my main way of downloading amga and anime for almost ten years, but torrents and reader sites just made it a lot simpler.

 

[GlasswareGrass]

Those stupid japan apps asked to pay money to read a chapter.
Not a whole volume but a chapter.
Die and see if I care.
Cause living in low economy I ain't wasting 30% of my day pay for some pieces of paper online.

 

[azerty0123]

Hi everyone! We're rolling out two updates today: one highly requested enhancement and one important rules clarification.

You can now once again tailor your reading experience by filtering out content you don't want to see across the site. To set it up, go to Settings -> Blocks -> Tag Filters and pick the tags you'd like to avoid.

• When browsing a title tagged with any of your filtered tags, you'll see a warning giving you the choice to continue or go back.,
• You can fine-tune when this warning appears under Settings > Content Warning Preference.,
• If you choose to ignore the warning, tags will still be highlighted in a distinct colour with an icon, so you know they've been filtered.,
• These filters, however, do not apply to the Staff Picks, Self-Published and Seasonal carousels on the homepage, as well as titles you receive updates for.

To ensure fair access for readers and sustainable practices for translation groups, we have updated our rules on excessive profiteering to include external sites with pay-walled content and hosting of infringing material:
Groups may not promote platforms that permanently lock translated works behind a paywall or manipulate release schedules to encourage paid access.

However, early-access previews—such as chapters made available in exchange for donations or reader requests—are permitted only if all content is released freely after a consistent delay.

Any group that hosts on its own website or any other external site official releases or chapters belonging to other groups without explicit permission and proper credit is prohibited from uploading any content to MangaDex.

We have been enforcing these standards informally for some time, but growing misuse and a surge in user reports have prompted us to codify these policies.

This update ensures we continue to enforce our rules consistently and fairly, with no exceptions. MangaDex’s mission remains the same: to be a free and open platform that still allows groups to receive community support.

Amazing, I was waiting so much for those features !!!! Hope it gets even better (mayber filter by country ??), congrats !

 

[yetanothergeek]

What's going to happen in the end is everyone is going to return to personal storage.

There didn't used to be ten thousand pirate (and this includes MD, sorry) manga sites with easy to read online chapters. Web storage/bandwidth was a premium; any method of doing it where people reading your scans spent less time downloading from your site was good.

We're going back to hoarding on our own hdd's again. Nice that now you can buy a couple terabytes worth of thumbdrives for pennies at least.

Go back? Did you guys ever stop?!

 

[bondejeger]

Go back? Did you guys ever stop?!

Except when I haven’t been able to find what I want besides torrents, I’ve been mainly using readers for probably over ten years since mangahelpers. Before that it was mostly xdcc on irc, but it was just insanely easier to use a readers for probably. And a period I was using madokami I guess, though I can’t even remember my username there.

 

[VesperPie]

The issue for me is not where or how to read manga. Its keeping up with manga with infrequent releases that may span several weeks or months. I tend to forget Im reading a manga title until I see it on my feed and find out the last chapter was 2 months ago. Its harder the more manga titles there are to follow.

Is there anyway for Mangadex to shift from hosting manga online and instead allow scanlators to post their DMCA'd manga to just show on feed that they have a new release? Like what MANGAPLUS or COMICKEY are already doing here?

I know about mangaupdates but its not the same as they don't filter releases to what Im specifically reading. Or at least I don't know how to do that.

 

[Bumpf]

I'm not aware of any library export tools.
If no one creates one within the next week or so, I will do it myself.

It seems that a good chunk of that has been done here: https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...-my-library-into-a-file.1171941/post-26300337

 

[ceervine]

Can't wait to go back to having to use mIRC to get the chapters like the good old days before manga readers got popular. Although it was simpler back then when I was reading like 20 series at most, not now at 2k+.

TBH maybe for the best ? i recently started diving into IRC again because I'm trying to dig up some old files from a shoujo scan group that's been defunct, half of their uploads were only ever released on their irc channel (ofc that's also been long dead but..) i think theres more benefits to irc than discord, at least.

 

[shwiftyshfifty]

... and they have more money to back it up.

Which is really the only thing that matters with DMCA. If the law was truly fair anyone would be able to fight it and would probably win in some cases that aren't blatantly ripping from an 'official' site and posting on another.

 

[jeezits]

Except when I haven’t been able to find what I want besides torrents, I’ve been mainly using readers for probably over ten years since mangahelpers. Before that it was mostly xdcc on irc, but it was just insanely easier to use a readers for probably. And a period I was using madokami I guess, though I can’t even remember my username there.

Same, I haven't bothered to save series offline for probably a decade now unless I really feel like re-reading them often, and that usually meant I was also buying them in print anyways.

Which is really the only thing that matters with DMCA. If the law was truly fair anyone would be able to fight it and would probably win in some cases that aren't blatantly ripping from an 'official' site and posting on another.

Would you guys please stop it with these teenager-level hottakes about copyright? Scans have never been legal in any way, shape, or form. We got away with it for decades because the IP holders didn't care because they couldn't make enough money in the US to make it worth the effort to publish here, but now they can. Reposting work you don't hold the rights to isn't "fair use", it isn't "parody", and it isn't "sharing". Get over it.

 

[OldVice]

What's going to happen in the end is everyone is going to return to personal storage.

There didn't used to be ten thousand pirate (and this includes MD, sorry) manga sites with easy to read online chapters. Web storage/bandwidth was a premium; any method of doing it where people reading your scans spent less time downloading from your site was good.

We're going back to hoarding on our own hdd's again. Nice that now you can buy a couple terabytes worth of thumbdrives for pennies at least.

This is just reminding me of hanging around in sketchy mirc chat rooms to get the latest chapters and/or the latest episode subtitle pack for whatever anime I was watching at the time.

 

[doomskull]

Filters? Oh that's a godsend, no more of my eyes being subjected to that awful stuff's existence, hooray.

 

[Angry_Panda]

Would you guys please stop it with these teenager-level hottakes about copyright? Scans have never been legal in any way, shape, or form. We got away with it for decades because the IP holders didn't care because they couldn't make enough money in the US to make it worth the effort to publish here, but now they can. Reposting work you don't hold the rights to isn't "fair use", it isn't "parody", and it isn't "sharing". Get over it.

This all the way.

Twenty or so years ago (so pardon me if I'm misremembering something), Battle Programmer Shirase (the anime) used the next episode preview to thank a different channel of distribution for watching each episode, and they specifically called out both domestic (Japanese) pirates and the US fansub crowd. It was really funny to have that acknowledged by the industry, and it kind of seemed at the time like a tacit blessing, at least from the production staff on that series.

It was not. It was illegal then, and it's illegal now. Translation is an exclusive right of the original copyright holder, and distributing scanlations violates that right.

I get the impression from some of the enforcement actions over the last six months or year or so that the industry is finally getting serious about chasing overseas infringement. I would not be surprised to start seeing more groups get called out, in the same way Reaper Scans did, and to start seeing a lot of sites getting notices.

I also am not going to be surprised if some of the smaller 'friendly' countries for hosting suddenly aren't so friendly, either because they start catching pressure from Japan/Korea (or from the west backing them up) to defend the international copyrights that they are technically obliged to protect under several agreements they're signatories to, or because a group of JP/KR companies get to the right person in a government ministry somewhere and ask 'how big a check do we need to write you to make this a priority?'

 

[Rapha]

Researching comeso (the main company behind this all) a bit:

(Guys seem to be desperate back some time ago, DMCA waifu images)
https://news.mywaifulist.moe/blog/c...ulist-with-fraudulent-dmca-takedown-requests/

(And are really desperate now)
https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/owners/73099

I wonder if they could be considered abusing the system, no way this huge amount of data could be reviewed by humans, scripts are dumb, and become even dumber if AI is involved.

There are lots of people complaining, basically unheard, in the last 5 years of them DMCAing fanart, videos with justifications completelly nonsensical and others. Not saying that they aren't in the """"""""""""""""right"""""""""""""""" by doing this stuff with manga online (Still couldn't find any report to shareholders from Kadokawa ever stating their works or partners in the fight against piracy), but maybe someone could check if their knees (as an allegory for their apparently dubious process) couldn't be hit by an hypothetical arrow (as an allegory of stopping a dubious process, in a completelly metaphorical way, your honor) to stop them.

 

[Lichon]

The users that want a list of what has been taken down will have to wait for said feature too.

Since a new status (like "DMCA") is highly unlikely going to be added, it seems like MD missed the chance to make use of their own sharing feature - MDList. That would have made it easy, and already link to the series page.
Of course, additional features with an MDlist, like comparing versus own library/MDlist ("what do they share", "what do they differ") would have been nice, but this is not the place to wish for things.

Instead us users have to find and compile a list ourselves (still growing/increasing, but currently at ~1550). And use the search to look them up.

I myself already use bookmarks titles to track last read chapters instead of MD's read icon (as oddly discouraged - makes me wonder why its there then), since MD went down before v5. Therefore I only "need" to find another place to read - and luckily I started that about ~1 year ago.