Use reader with external images

[happypurple]

the reader is pretty, i'd like to use it to view images other than ones hosted on the site. Cubari has a proxy that reads images off imgur/similar, how difficult would it be to implement a similar feature/system with the (sexier) MD reader?

 

[BraveDude8]

cursed

 

[T10_]

the reader is pretty, i'd like to use it to view images other than ones hosted on the site.

Cursed indeed. There are several reasons why this won't work:

• What you want is basically CubariDex
• Images you see on MangaDex should always come from MangaDex so moderators have an easier job
• The reader is customized for MangaDex, so it'd need a lot of new code to get images from other platforms.
• The developers won't ever have time for this until at least v5 reaches feature parity with v3
• The reader already has enough bugs things that need optimization with images from MangaDex. Imagine getting images from other sources.

Someone could do it themself tho when the frontend code is made public. But we won't see that in our lifespan anyways. Can't wait for 2077.

 

[happypurple]

i'm aware of those considerations. i understand this would be the opposite of a priority. I'm not suggesting it happen anytime soon, or that it has anything to do with data maintained by the site that would require moderation, "just" the reader & some externally hosted images. as much or as little frill/polish as devs might care to add. Minimally my suggested usecase would be an imgur link with some PNG's in it so i can do collaborative PR on the same reader i intend the audience of my scans use. Being able to experience the same final product is important to me, and i'd like to imagine it would be a feature other groups might like. Also would not hurt for sharing stuff which for various reasons i would not try to put on the site but want to use the reader for.

i'm not a dev, and even if i was the site's code is not public so idk how unreasonable a request this is from a practical perspective. I figure, if anyone ought to know its the devs, and they can tell me to fuck off if its too big an ask, but since its a feature i'd quite like to see, i figure i may as well ask & hopefully hear from them about it one way or another.

 

[T10_]

I'm not suggesting it happen anytime soon

2077

 

[Asasa]

Minimally my suggested usecase would be an imgur link with some PNG's in it so i can do collaborative PR on the same reader i intend the audience of my scans use. Being able to experience the same final product is important to me, and i'd like to imagine it would be a feature other groups might like.

A (shareable?) preview before the actual release actually is a nice idea imo, and would probably be more doable than just doing mdex as cubari

 

[tristan9]

I believe we could make something like this work potentially, but it’d likely have be on MangaDex, as a chapter draft feature of some type maybe.

There’s a part where we do spend a lot of efforts on our website, the reader included, and we’re not too keen on having others reuse any of it if that includes those that decide against uploading on MD for $whateverReasons (and I know that’s not your case, and we always respect other’s reasons for it anyway, but « you can’t have your cake and eat it too », kind of).

 

[happypurple]

understandable