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would be nice to have a tab/panel/similar on series pages for users to add and vote on recommendations similar to the title they're viewing.
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Doing something similar to what MU does with category recommendations could be an option:
Basically have a separate section in the description page that lets users suggest and vote on descriptive categories which could apply to a series. Once a certain voting threshold is reached, series' with high votes on shared categories can be lumped together in a separate "similar/see also" section within their respective description pages.
Basically have a separate section in the description page that lets users suggest and vote on descriptive categories which could apply to a series. Once a certain voting threshold is reached, series' with high votes on shared categories can be lumped together in a separate "similar/see also" section within their respective description pages.
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While I agree, more in-depth functionality would be super nice, you should be aware that we're not trying to be a second MU.
They do exceptionally well in their field because they focus on a wide array of categorization and cataloguing. We generally strive to give you the tools you need to find stuff, but not everything beyond that. @BraveDude8 can chime in on where we feel the limitations are.
Especially when you take a look at our Data Improvement Subforum, you will see that we still struggle in some aspects of data quality.
They do exceptionally well in their field because they focus on a wide array of categorization and cataloguing. We generally strive to give you the tools you need to find stuff, but not everything beyond that. @BraveDude8 can chime in on where we feel the limitations are.
Especially when you take a look at our Data Improvement Subforum, you will see that we still struggle in some aspects of data quality.
There is an unofficial chrome extension that uses the recommendation from Neko:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mangadex-similar-manga/ghjofcifjnbpgfjbbnbeeipjlhnmbefl
If would be nice to have a way for users to submit a manga which they recommend would be also good to read with a reason why its a good match.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mangadex-similar-manga/ghjofcifjnbpgfjbbnbeeipjlhnmbefl
If would be nice to have a way for users to submit a manga which they recommend would be also good to read with a reason why its a good match.
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Recommended page is great on Neko. But I wish they would add works from the same author and artist there.
+1 since search is not good, so I think this would actually help.
What Night_ said is like AniDB. Any user can add, but only when votes are at/above a certain percentage (50?) will it show by default (on A + B title pages) - otherwise you have to click a "show all" where voting also happens.
I think adding a more detailed similar voting is better but not sure by what:
I found these forum v3 threads asking for the same:
What Night_ said is like AniDB. Any user can add, but only when votes are at/above a certain percentage (50?) will it show by default (on A + B title pages) - otherwise you have to click a "show all" where voting also happens.
I think adding a more detailed similar voting is better but not sure by what:
- MD genres are too basic
- MD has no tags
- by author/artist/language/status says nothing IMO and the search works for those
- not sure about by art/story/overall/etc like seen with certain reviews
I found these forum v3 threads asking for the same:
- (sticky) https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/read-first-planned-and-rejected-features.270516/
- https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/related-similar-manga-feature-planned.512979/
- https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/similar-to-tab.594201/
- https://forums.mangadex.org/threads/a-similar-manga-section-underneath-mangas.889806/
- https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...or-similar-to-the-title-you-just-read.908022/
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Mangadex is nice site but I feel something lacking that is recommendations. When I here the way you get recommend manga is through other user. Also staff picked recommendation rarely change. It'll be nice if after reading a manga there few recommendations for similar manga or genre.
Recommendations also nice for some manga that already completed to get more view. Usually people doesn't really look old manga, and they don't even know it's exist. Thank you for reading this far.
Recommendations also nice for some manga that already completed to get more view. Usually people doesn't really look old manga, and they don't even know it's exist. Thank you for reading this far.
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To be honest when the subscription feature with the option to feature a title came out I thought that a lot of people might pay for it, but it seems like since it was a fairly expensive support tier that didn't happen. I think it would be pretty common if it was slightly less expensive but I also think it would end up with a lot of people wanting an option to filter out featured titles if what gets featured isn't to their taste.
I saw another thread suggesting a "similar to this title" feature which might be more useful. I was thinking a user submitted "if you like this, you might like that" feature similar to MAL might be useful, or for minimum coding, an option to automatically create a thread in the discussion for a given manga that's "Recommendations for fans of this manga" or something.
I saw another thread suggesting a "similar to this title" feature which might be more useful. I was thinking a user submitted "if you like this, you might like that" feature similar to MAL might be useful, or for minimum coding, an option to automatically create a thread in the discussion for a given manga that's "Recommendations for fans of this manga" or something.
MangaDex used to have user activity based recommendations without issue on the old UX, which was the reason I and many other people started using the website at all.
It was incredibly easy to source new stuff to read by getting an objective metric of what people are reading in pure user volume, and data quality really didn't matter because it was pure clicks. I would be astonished if the current host can't track click volume at least for logged in accounts. If for some reason the analytics is busted irreparably and you can't pull pageviews without an act of congress (how does ad validation even work in that case?) adding a widget so people can click "banger chapter" and add it to a rolling tally for a week would be a sneeze and a half worth of time to implement in php. It's not rocket science, this is one of those things that was used as a practice example for comp sci classes throughout the 90s.
You can see an archived version of the old UX here. As demonstrated in the sidebar "Top chapters" has a ton of stuff that was blowing up at the time, many of which remain popular today (or eventually got purged). There were transparent numbers of views that let you know how big something was getting in real terms, and you could sort views as far out as weekly if you wanted a slower pace of rotation. Current recommendations on prod are just what the same few ecchiheads staff are enjoying lately, a zany oneshot or two, plus things getting an anime next season maybe.
The UX has regressed in almost every way since the swap but most of those ways are much harder to fix, this one is the easiest slam dunk ever and it remains a relic of the past after 6 years. The sidebar already scrolls to fit all the junk on it, put the pageview widget in there and wham you get community curated manga picks again with twenty minutes of work.
Even this thread has been going for over 3 years and nothing.
All I can do is bump, I guess.
It was incredibly easy to source new stuff to read by getting an objective metric of what people are reading in pure user volume, and data quality really didn't matter because it was pure clicks. I would be astonished if the current host can't track click volume at least for logged in accounts. If for some reason the analytics is busted irreparably and you can't pull pageviews without an act of congress (how does ad validation even work in that case?) adding a widget so people can click "banger chapter" and add it to a rolling tally for a week would be a sneeze and a half worth of time to implement in php. It's not rocket science, this is one of those things that was used as a practice example for comp sci classes throughout the 90s.
You can see an archived version of the old UX here. As demonstrated in the sidebar "Top chapters" has a ton of stuff that was blowing up at the time, many of which remain popular today (or eventually got purged). There were transparent numbers of views that let you know how big something was getting in real terms, and you could sort views as far out as weekly if you wanted a slower pace of rotation. Current recommendations on prod are just what the same few ecchiheads staff are enjoying lately, a zany oneshot or two, plus things getting an anime next season maybe.
The UX has regressed in almost every way since the swap but most of those ways are much harder to fix, this one is the easiest slam dunk ever and it remains a relic of the past after 6 years. The sidebar already scrolls to fit all the junk on it, put the pageview widget in there and wham you get community curated manga picks again with twenty minutes of work.
Even this thread has been going for over 3 years and nothing.
All I can do is bump, I guess.
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