Update feed shows only 1 manga

[Zing]

Something happened to mangadex update feed. It only shows 1 manga for me, despite having a large number of them in my library.

 

[arimareiji]

Something happened to mangadex update feed. It only shows 1 manga for me, despite having a large number of them in my library.

The site is getting flooded with titles containing hundreds of chapters from one "power uploader", and I'm guessing each screenful (i.e. what the site shows when you click 1, 2, 3, etc to advance to the next batch) is limited to X number of chapters per screenful rather than X number of titles.

If the most recent 400 chapters within the last few minutes are all for ABC manga, then the only thing on the top =400/X many screens will be ABC manga. You can sorta get around it for any given title by just continuing to advance to the next batch until you get through them all, but then you run into the next 300-chapter title that they uploaded.

Edit: On the bright side, it looks like either they've stopped for now or they've been stopped. But they're up to 20,021 chapters uploaded, and it looks like they may be specializing in uploading published content taken straight off of publishers' sites.

 

[Basic_human]

400 chapters within the last few minutes

What manga had that many chapter?

There is none like that since old gen shounen

 

[RogueKitsune]

Some previous posts about this
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/updates-feed-is-only-showing-limited-manga.1604661
https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/the-update-feed-should-fetch-titles-not-chapters.1523744/

they may be specializing in uploading published content taken straight off of publishers' sites.

What?

 

[tobias5678]

What manga had that many chapter?

There is none like that since old gen shounen

Probably One Piece or Bleach or Dragon Ball or Detective Canon.

All my examples are young boys' jump huh?

 

[T10_]

What manga had that many chapter?

There is none like that since old gen shounen

Probably One Piece or Bleach or Dragon Ball or Detective Canon.

All my examples are young boys' jump huh?

Multiple manga from groups that haven't uploaded to MD in a while
See: the group in question

 

[Robinisback]

Multiple manga from groups that haven't uploaded to MD in a while
See: the group in question

This guy destroyed my manga feed. 😭

Now I have to scroll through 7 to 8 pages through just to see new updates.

 

[tobias5678]

Multiple manga from groups that haven't uploaded to MD in a while
See: the group in question

Hmmm Xenforo issue? Can't handle the requests?

 

[Korath]

I unfollowed the mangas where the user T10_ is uploading. The upload feed works normal again.

Followed again and hope the mass uploads stop after today. ^^ So the system isnt broken, just badly programmed to evade mass uploads. Not that I have any knowledge about how to do it better, but I still see the results.

 

[arimareiji]

it looks like they may be specializing in uploading published content taken straight off of publishers' sites.

What?

The chapters I peeked at include all the original copyright notations, and aren't even scans or translations -- they appear to be very obviously pulled straight from a publisher's English-language server.

 

[Basic_human]

Multiple manga

•) looking at forum
•) ask what manga is it
•) it's this manga sir
•) Korean

 

[arimareiji]

The original notice from the raws is not a sign of a chapter being the official translation.
If that were the case, then there would be no chapters on MangaDex.
A notice by e.g. the English publisher is another story though.

If you still think that a chapter is an official translation, please report it.
PS: if you want to report multiple chapters, you can just report the manga and specify which chapters you mean.

No thank you. Trying to edit Wikipedia long, long ago already taught me not to let my ego (or anyone else) taunt me into fighting one-by-one battles no one could win.

But if anyone is curious, here's an example of untouched image quality (and uploading ~at least~ a thousand chapters in a single day—over 20,000 total) that is obviously the result of a self-described "Small Scanlation Group"'s tireless work.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/c3b7c129-56fb-45a1-b6cf-453814719628

Not the de-rigueur "READ ON [recently-registered] LUMINOUSSCANS.COM" token page at the end, but the entirety of the chapter and the last manhwa page. Which was obviously painstakingly translated (and the special effects in the text of the name recreated) because readers demand it. Compare the last manhwa page to the same chapter, released 2 years ago from the raw by another group: https://mangadex.org/chapter/efe628bd-dd09-40d5-b1ef-234f671db432

 

[arimareiji]

mod note - merged into relevant thread

 

[BraveDude8]

But if anyone is curious, here's an example of untouched image quality (and uploading ~at least~ a thousand chapters in a single day—over 20,000 total) that is obviously the result of a self-described "Small Scanlation Group"'s tireless work.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/c3b7c129-56fb-45a1-b6cf-453814719628

Not the de-rigueur "READ ON [recently-registered] LUMINOUSSCANS.COM" token page at the end, but the entirety of the chapter and the last manhwa page. Which was obviously painstakingly translated (and the special effects in the text of the name recreated) because readers demand it. Compare the last manhwa page to the same chapter, released 2 years ago from the raw by another group: https://mangadex.org/chapter/efe628bd-dd09-40d5-b1ef-234f671db432

Directly below the translated section you're referring to - do you legitimately believe an English publisher would leave a giant block of Korean text alone?

Also, there's no official English release for Volcanic Age, which makes it fairly hard to steal.

 

[Manko-sensei]

I'm amazed that from a one line post that started the thread it has already become this large and even derailed from the initial question. My recommendation is setting at maximum items per page so even when a single series gets updated with a ton of chapters you don't need to move many pages to see something else, and if you notice a particular language or group is filling all the pages to the point you can't find other manga at least temporarily block it. This can happen periodically if you don't filter anything, so keeping only the original languages you're interested in and the ones you want to read on a regular basis is your safest bid. In addition to that, I also block groups such as INKR comics because I don't need extra publicity from series I already know and I can read without leaving MangaDex.

 

[Koneko_Nyaa]

Personally, I get excited when this happens.

It means something I was reading and probably forgot about just got a massive dump of backlogged chapters and now I can waste a ton of time catching up while reading on my favorite site.

 

[Teasday]

I'm not sure how it wasn't pointed out yet that the person being accused of uploading official rips is an actual MangaDex staff member — not that that would absolve them of blame if the accusation was correct, more that I personally wouldn't be expecting a staff member to so blatantly risk being kicked the fuck out if they actually were breaking the number one rule on the site.

 

[Ratio9776]

I'm a dummy, but does the pagination have to work this way? Is there a reason it's counting chapters rather than titles?

 

[arimareiji]

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Directly below the translated section you're referring to - do you legitimately believe an English publisher would leave a giant block of Korean text alone?

Also, there's no official English release for Volcanic Age, which makes it fairly hard to steal.

It's more believable that an English publisher would leave a "giant" block (of four lines) of Korean text in place… than that a group took the time to imitate the weird splotches overlaid on the text, and redesign the last page of the actual raw for giggles (compare to the one from group 2 years ago who actually started with the raw which I linked and you ignored). Especially when you consider that the image I'm referring to, placed English text under the Korean text in the same way that Korean text is placed under English in "Radiant's" version.

And Lumen shows that WEBTOON (which has an English-language division) has been sending out copyright complaints to Google to get sites with English translations of this title de-indexed. Including mangadex.org. I'd agree that's not proof they're planning to release their own work but haven't properly safeguarded it… but if that's not proof, then it's certainly true that "I don't know that they are, so that proves they're not" isn't either.

I'm not sure how it wasn't pointed out yet that the person being accused of uploading official rips is an actual MangaDex staff member — not that that would absolve them of blame if the accusation was correct, more that I personally wouldn't be expecting a staff member to so blatantly risk being kicked the fuck out if they actually were breaking the number one rule on the site.

I actually did allude to that, by referring to the fact that I had no particular desire to try and fight a pointless battle. You know, like filing reports on the thousand-plus chapters (and no idea how many titles) uploaded yesterday by a staff member. To staff members who, because it's human nature, are likely to circle the wagons and join their fellow staff member in mocking the idea that the possibility should even be entertained.

And whaddya know.

 

[BraveDude8]

It's more believable that an English publisher would leave a "giant" block (of four lines) of Korean text in place… than that a group took the time to imitate the weird splotches overlaid on the text, and redesign the last page of the actual raw for giggles (compare to the one from group 2 years ago who actually started with the raw which I linked and you ignored).

I ignored it because it's nonsensical; translating the title of the work but leaving the raw Korean publisher credit makes it an official release, but leaving the raw title and translating the Korean publisher credit makes it a scanlation?

I've styled a dozen or so series titles myself for scanlations, I don't know why you're finding it so hard to believe that a group would put a bit of extra effort in for something that'll be used in every chapter.

And Lumen shows that WEBTOON (which has an English-language division) has been sending out copyright complaints to Google to get sites with English translations of this title de-indexed.

Volcanic Age is published by Kakao, so this is unlikely.

I'd agree that's not proof they're planning to release their own work but haven't properly safeguarded it…

Do you seriously believe it's more likely that a major established scanlation group are ripping official chapters so secretive that they aren't even publicly available and there's no evidence of the existence of an official English release anywhere on the entire Internet, or that they spent ten minutes styling the series title?