Hey y'all!
First of all, I want to wish a slightly belated happy birthday to us!
You better believe it we are still here and kicking, 6 years from the inception of the site. We've survived the tumultuous transition from the closing of another english speaking front-facing scanlation scene site (not unlike a certain manga-reading app), the spaghetti code our former overlord
@Holo left for us on MD v1~v3 and the -not so recent now- attempted attack to our site by malicious parties which did make us go dark on hiatus and kill MD v4 (which tbh was already on life support by then), before pulling through thanks to the great effort of our volunteer devs, mods and admins as the current re-imagined MangaDex v5; which couldn't ever happened without the support of both scanlators and readers - a warm thanks to y'all.
It's time now to recap what's changed since last year. While most has been focused on internal infrastructure to support the millions of you out there, there are a couple of milestones that we can proudly share this year:
- MangaDex daily unique users have grown almost ~30% (both readers and new scanlation teams of english and foreign language) thanks to our updated and easy to use platform and the continuous polish on our (currently on beta) language interface picker.
- The biggest and most popular chapter release of a certain title with more than a quarter million views on the first 24hrs following it's release.
- The impressive count of most overall chapters read, a whopping 20.5+ million on just one day.
- And most of all, more than 3 million of you have registered to our site this past year only to use the full perks of MD (custom lists, chapter read tracking, rating, comments and more!).
Here are some features added since last year too:
- Spanish as a site-wide interface language option.
- Persistent settings, your user settings now synch across all your devices when logged in.
- We added a Custom Theme creator, so you can create and share your favorite colours
wrong original dark theme is the best to browse the site and read your mango.
- Advanced Title Search update helping both our readers to find their favorite title to read and the site to survive the extensive use this feature requires from our infra.
- Neat quality of life features for scanlators like individual image editor, auto slicer for long strip series, duplicate image warnings, scanlation group comments, and more...
And some things to be excited for the future:
- Custom List v2.
- The re-implementation of view chapter count.
- Re-integration of the comment system on site (no more forum re-direct).
- User profile customization.
Remember that you can always take a sneak-peek of these features by
joining our Discord's #frontend-early-access channel.
As always, we appreciate y'alls patience and support year over year.
Thank you for reading!
Now to our traditional Staff (and friend) quotes for the year:
ixlone - Admin
Lymus - Admin
Teasday - Developer
panda__________ - Developer
AlexEliot - Developer
Asyncantiunredoify - Developer
carbryvietia - Developer
Xnot - Developer
rdn - Developer
tristan9 - Developer
eralfl - Developer
Bottersnike - Developer
Zephyrus - Moderator
kouyo - Moderator
Electromaster - Moderator
Daviot - Moderator
AntsyLich - Moderator
Woulez - Moderator
glad-barfs - Moderator
Richman - Moderator
BraveDude8 - Moderator
Kafka - Moderator & PR
Henny - PR (Public Relations)
Holo - Former Overlord
Plykiya - PR (Pet Reindeer & Honorary Ex-Staff)
Bocchi - Ex-Dev & VIP
P.S. Custom theme contest participants, do not despair, winners will be announced very soon™️ 
