Site Update - 3rd of June 2025

[Manko-sensei]

Is this the new & improved 'mangadex is dying, let's discuss pirate ethic' ? Can I just link the jokes I've made in the other one or should I retype them?

You can post all that in the appropiated thread: https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/shitpost-here.39264/

 

[shoujocon]

Well scratch intent they need to have the translation out or announced explicitly or should in an ideal world. And that the official release should try to be weekly or not in volume only

One could argue that in ideal world you'd learn the language to read the original for yourself because why settle for inherently flawed retelling of a story.

 

[JVick]

You can post all that in the appropiated thread: https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/shitpost-here.39264/

Well, have fun arguing with strangers for the next weeks on that namicomi branch.

 

[Manko-sensei]

Well, have fun arguing with strangers for the next weeks on that namicomi branch.

Bad wording, it's "make fun of strangers", so long stranger.

 

[manadrop]

Nice. Would've been great if it worked retroactively, but that it doesn't seem to do. Still, a step in the right direction.

Edit: Alright, I'm dumb or something, because it does seem to work for old stuff too... Could've sworn it wasn't showing up for some old entries, but it does. Very nice.

 

[RonBWL]

ah, i missed that the translation groups are still shown after a chapter was removed. but what if any numbers of chapters were simply never translated and a group started to translate it some volumes in? for instance if they liked an anime adaption and decided not to translated adapted manga chapters thus starting on chapter +30 or something? will the chapters list only start at 31 then, following this example?

By clicking "Show unavailable chapters", you should see all of the chapters that have been delisted (not deleted). If a group only started translating from 30+ onward, it'll of course only show C31 onward in the Unavailable Chapter list. However, if you're certain there were older chapters (translated by another group), but they don't show up in the Unavailable Chapter list, that means they have been deleted manually, not delisted.

 

[IlaiaCorde]

Can't wait for chapter view counts to be available someday.

Why tho?

The only real metric of success here are comments. Because anyone can click on a chapter, but few will want to talk about it and leave comments.

So lots of forum activity is imo a better metric.

 

[IlaiaCorde]

I'll never forgive the Japanese!

And the mods for complying for even super niche and old TLs

But you'll keep reading their manga for free? lol...

And the mods did what they had to do to comply with the law. Because the site owner is the one liable for legal action, not you...or any of us.

This isnt a piracy site. Its a site for unlicensed translations.

 

[KATCRX]

Why tho?

The only real metric of success here are comments. Because anyone can click on a chapter, but few will want to talk about it and leave comments.

So lots of forum activity is imo a better metric.

Most manga have low comment counts anyway. At least with visible view counts, we can know for sure whether it's getting a lot of views or not, and whether the readership is increasing. This could motivate scanlators to keep working on it, and maybe even do it faster. I think a lot of manga have very long update times between chapters because the scanlators feel there isn't enough of an audience for it.

 

[shoujocon]

But you'll keep reading their manga for free? lol...

And the mods did what they had to do to comply with the law. Because the site owner is the one liable for legal action, not you...or any of us.

This isnt a piracy site. Its a site for unlicensed translations.

Scanlations are piracy, right to translation is a part of copyright. There's nothing vague about it.