Mandadex death throes

yes, that way they don't get cancelled on twitter and publishers won't force them to change their content

to be fair, mangadex was already half dead most hours of the day thanks to all their bandwidth being demolished by the endless flood of korean and chinese spam hitting their catalogue. It got annoying how it was unusable pretty often.

Less than 0.1% of filthy gaijins contribute to their income or exposure in any positive way so why not?

Yes, the publisher more so.Pretty simple and the solution is simple too, these sites shouldnt give a shit on dmca that dont have english release or slow as fuck twice a year chasing years of jap release, at the very least.

gain traction from seafags who harass mangaka on twitter

Yeah. Not really worth it. Very few series are "saved" by nonJP taking an interest in it. very very few.

work doesn't gain traction

Outside of Japan? Some would probably not be so mindless as to believe pirating non-licensed works is as bad as just reading it for free. I mean, most would probably still not like the idea, and at least a few don't mind there's piracy, like Ogu, who even shared the uncensored raws of her works to the scannies.

mangaka

This entire thing was kicked off by Korean webtoon corps. Fucking hell Manwha is a cancer

Do we move to NamiComi now?

I can't name a single one, should've saved that pic of the Keijo author being shocked he got axed despite "being popular with westerners"

Namicomio is only for user-created content, if I'm not mistaken.

so technically can I get into trouble now if I upload a chapter and checking that box?

I can't name a single one,

The whole reason Watamote exists today is because anons saved it. Garuru Girl even had the author post on MD, thanking the readers for buying his work.

There's a reason why, to this fucking day, every single time someone says "Piracy has saved a mangaka before!" the one and only example people bring up is Watamote, and that was, what, back in 2012? (I lost my copy years ago in an earthquake, so meh.)

And it's long been shit, so it's a dubious example at that.

I'll just use the other sites for now and wait until a new one appears, why do you fags love drama?

Yep. Namicomi (and now Mangadex) is only for submitting your own work. That's why there's the new check mark when uploading now to confirm you own the work, they can (and will) delete stuff that is not officially yours.

Keep your translation shit anonymous, dont bother mingling with randoms for other than fixing typo or release related stuff only . Its been that way for a long time now anyway, mangadex is just another entry point for the publishers.Upload chapter using vpn or sockpuppet, etc2.

Daiz

Kill yourself corporate shill

You pretending these manga don't get uploaded to piracy websites in nipland either?
If you just learn to read it you don't have to worry about this sort of thing anymore. The only issue would be with ease of downloads.

drama

are you an ESLL? that word doesnt apply here when discussing risks of legal... actually why am i responding to you seriously? ooh ooh ah ah go away stupid tarsir

damn this sucks.

I wonder what's the motivation for some of these Anons celebrating this. Is it just contrarianism, shit stirring or actual shills. Why would you be part of a community where one of the core parts you're fundamentally against

Its always contrarianism

I'm still astounded anyone took these faggots seriously after the guy who hijacked their website felt bad about how stupid they were and offered to help them fix it.

Surprising no one, its confirmed dead.
Handling it to Namicomi is basically saying they are abandoning the site

Madokami died for our sins.

and now Mangadex) is only for submitting your own work

But why are there people still uploading chapters?

It says they will only remove the manga if they receive a DMCA claim.
This means they can still host unpopular manga such as those published by companies not affiliated to the ABJ or ancient titles which no one will care enough to fill a complaint

But I have access to all of those 7k titles

Hyouge mono is also kill. Thank you satan for the reminder.

I'm just bummed I won't have a place to reliably read Arakure Ojousama wa Monmon Shiteiru when it sporadically updates.

Mangadex and Anon Babble might be sister sites after all

Corporate is why this hobby can exist otherwise you'd be reading the Bible and nothing else, faggot.

HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

To upload anything, you have to check that checkbox that says you must be, or have, the author's rights.
Its a death sentence to any scanlation, and being on Namicomi shadow confirms that its only meant to self-published works.
There is no coping about "unpopular" or "niche" manga anon
Let it go

Only in cucked countries

Kek. Every manga site goes the "user content" way after they are forced to remove copyrighted works. It never works. It's dead. F.

Move to the next thing until it gets the strike, then the next and so on.

I wonder how hard they must be seething at how their dreams of becoming a Crunchy for Manga™ are now crushed forever.
You just know this is what's gotten them the most butthurt.
Bunch of pussies. They couldn't have had it all but they preferred to be cucks and this is the end result. They somehow didn't realize we aren't in 2010 anymore and all these publishers all want, if not already have, their own platforms already. Not even Netflix could escape from this shit.

Probably because mangadex was already a fairly cucked site where a lot of stuff was missing and they would delete chapters that received official translations or redirect links to mangaplus and viz

And yet piracy doesn't have any real negative impact on sales, but here you are, like the subhuman you are crying because your owners/masters aren't getting money from us.

mangadex has been shit for years
they always remove the english translations so you can only find some russian shit
just delete the site

how will they know whether I have permission or not?

Never trust any cucked faggot whose intent and purpose is "to go legit" down the road.

their dreams of becoming a Crunchy for Manga™ are now crushed forever.

intent and purpose is "to go legit" down the road.

source?

They won't, but it will shield them from a lawsuit thanks to the DMCA, they just have to follow procedure and delete the content.

lurk moar

shill yourself out of this thread

I use weebcentral so i don't care

So no source. Got it

source?

When MD first started, Holo the one who made the site, said he wanted to go legit; he said it was a joke, he stepped down form being the owner like a year or so after the site was born and other people took charge. If those people also wanted to go legit, I don't know.

It's missing a lot too.

If a manga isn't popular in Japan the west isn't going to be able to save it. I think the only exception is that cupid yuri manga.

I'd really like id ipfs worked well. We could have groups uploading and people automatically receiving the chapters. Torrents with less steps and no need for a torrent file.

we found the shartranny

still waiting for nep to upload the stuff I want

cupid yuri

Which one? I thought the only exception was watamote. And maybe Saint Seiya.

tiptoes around "legal"

constantly complies with official releases

closed source code website

iron-fist moderation on releases

given the chance, they would definitely take it

Love Bullet, the manga was going to be cancelled but the mangaka had a begging post online and the west saved it.

Why didn't you warn about the incoming takedown?

As a host, we're unable to provide advanced warning.

Bull fucking shit.

Is mangadex really where people were primarily distributing their scans from? Couldn't they just switch to 1 of a billion other places? As long as ONE place hosts the initial drop then wouldn't scrapers do the rest as far as the distribution chain goes? I don't really understand.

They don't owe retards any warning.
If a series goes down just read it somewhere else

Better back up your favorites of what hasn't been deleted yet.

Some did it on their paywalled sites.

That doesn't really answer my question.

Even now they're still being good goys for the publishers

kekarooooooooooooooo
They got fucked in the ass and are still being cucks to the ones who raped them without lube
how embarrassing

Great now I have to look for another site to upload shit

oh yeah there's more takedowns incoming, going by what was taken down so far, the rights holders involved haven't taken down their entire catalogs and if they do that's basically all the manga worth reading. this is it for mangadex

namicomi manages the site now, and they're not in the piracy business, so looks like the plan forward is going to be taking mangadex's high traffic and funneling it into namicomi.

making mangadex a better platform for content creators

they're not talking about scanlators here.

What is the best way to mass download manga from it? Tachidesk? Houdoku?

You can tell by how they want to comply with corpos instead of just ignoring them.

python. ask chatgpt to write a script

Yes, it was THE hub for scanlators no matter what some fags wanted you to believe. Most probably still don't know what the fuck is going on so they haven't thought of a way to provide their scans to public yet. A few have anounced they are abandoning the site and going to post their shit con discord and other places like comik.

well I did ask for the best one. Thank you I'll try

The problem is there's no way to coordinate which site everyone should use. Most sites only scrap and don't have direct uploads. And most downscale the images. Eventually everyone will converge on the most convenient one, and then that site will get the lawsuits.

So where are scanlators uploading their translations to now

namicomi manages the site now,

That's the real nail in the coffin. The people running Mangadex simply handed their site over to someone else for free and bailed.
If you'll notice, no staff member has said anything since Wednesday evening. They're all gone, and that updated FAQ having some stilted ESL grammar is all that really needs to be said.

Don't worry, other aggregators will rip them for you like they did with mangadex

Multiple different places. Their discords, random imgur folders linked to cubari, other manga aggregators, etc.

Decentralization should mean multiple sites having the same identical files, and not certain manga at different places, with some sites being difficult to find and access. Something that obvious isn't going to happen.

So how do I copy my subscription list?

Still surprised they exist. Hate this cuckptcha

their income is 60% based off world popularity

he kept his library on mangadex site

entry by entry on a notepad

Surely they can't be so delusional to think people would use the site if it had no pirated manga?

so where do i go now

cubari and discord

Nomadic web surfing. Fun times ahead.

I don't think the original staff wants to have anything to do with the site anymore.

Just like keikaku.

Sneakernet

Has based hombre said anything yet?

They probably expect a very small percent will stay, but it could be enough to advertise cheaply.

Can't they just link to a tracker site then just have people scrape it from an RSS? Then the tracker would serve as a legal intermediary for centralization.

why does no one ever counter-hack the faggots sending out DMCAs

Not even close for 99.9% of mangaka lol

Are any of those 7k series mirrored elsewhere or are they lost now?

Mangadex at this point is full of normies that are pro censorship

Anon please... Everything that is on MD was ripped and uploaded on other sites too

You are here forever

I am a chink and my usual manga streaming site is still up so this doesn't affect me kek lmao
the problem with english translation scene is that they are begging for donation everyday while we chinks do it for free

right now?
Anon Babble has links and some aggregators are actively scrapping off discord/ cubari
now we wait for the successor

Find multiple sites so you always have backups.

We've seen this cope transition countless times in the past. It never works out.
said it best.
It's over. Download all your shit before they go and completely wipe-out the site is what you should be doing.

At the same quality?

These, they're the main contributors for non jp content, them going the Crunchyroll route by faking muh dmca won't change anything.

hallucination from someone who has not looked at their bank accounts
they're about to be 90% dependent

He's correct expect not every scrapper has everything, you're gonna have to look around different sites

we need money to buy magazine

my mom is sick please support me

I lost my job please help

I have to pay for chatgpt subscription please help

please donate to help the raw cleaning process please please

onegai my cat is hungry please give money

Too bad the reader sucks. I just want to read manga without scrolling

Koreans and webtoons are responsible for this snowballing

The paying consumers make it possible for "people" like you to enjoy it through piracy. You should be thankful.

We the readers got ntred

I don't know why are they hosting korea shit, its mangadex, manga is japanese manga, not gook manhwa for fuck sake.

Once its dead, I'm gonna piss on its grave

discord

cubari

Total and complete loss. Having to scour fucking R*ddit and Discord of all things for manga uploads is hell on earth

you know they don't, they cut and ran, gave the site away to namicomi for free

That's what normalfags crave.

There's more manga out there than Juan Piss and DragOn Balls, mmkay?

If anyone pretending to be human here is you, you came to cry as if you have some kind of moral high ground because you suck corpo dick so much. You should feel proud, you are a good boy who earned his kibble, now roll over and let your owner scratch you on your belly.

Good thing you can use something to read manga without scrolling and ads.

Proofs?

maybe start a manhwadex and host them there

Just wondering why Mangadex was the only site with a decent reader. Even official sites like Mangaplus have awful readers

lol no
They all compress and downscale shit like crazy.
And contrary to what some people seem to believe, a fuckton of these sites didn't scrape doujins or oneshots and the like. And all those fuck-off old ass series older than half of Anon Babble's modern userbase? lol lmao
Unless some autist comes out tomorrow and says he'd been religiously backing-up EVERYTHING on Mangadex 24/7 there's gonna be a SHITTON of things that will be completely lost forever thanks to this mess.
People thought it was like 2k series being hit max but now it's actually SEVEN THOUSANDS. And the cherry on top of the cake is that the site owners are massive cucks who're giving away the keys to their site for further raping instead of fighting tooth and nail against their aggressors.
People say hurr cut one head two more will grow durr but guess what faggot the scars of the wound remain and we're not living in 2010 anymore either technology has progressed these people have gotten more savvy and ironically enough the userbase has become more and more technologically retarded. Shit is nowhere near as easy as it used to be.

Only insane people read in a browser

Unless some autist comes out tomorrow and says he'd been religiously backing-up EVERYTHING on Mangadex 24/7 there's gonna be a SHITTON of things that will be completely lost forever thanks to this mess.

It's all on comick

Just say thank you next time, you're welcome.

another red flag on the chapter upload form, they're asking that you have permission from the publisher. guess that means the only manga on the site will be that shit that redirects to the publisher's site.

How is Comik? Is it better than Mangadex in terms of image quality?

grasping at straws to defend mangacuck kek

Can I export the titles of my library somehow? Maybe inlcuding author/artist?

Some will be missing updated versions to fix mistakes or use an uncensored version of a chapter too, or not have different groups versions.

Unless you used some tachiyomi/mihon fork, no

I know I saw something missing there, and I wasn't looking much. You also need an account to see some manga, and they block some email options.

What is this bitching and moaning about the library?
If you can't remember the manga... It probably wasn't that good to begin with.

b-but I forgot which chapter I was

Just skip chapters until you find the last one you read. If you can't remember... It probably wasn't that good to begin with

I am authorized by the copyright owner

No, but it's good enough

If it's lower it's not good enough.

I guarantee not a single one of the "old ass series" has been lost. We had way more hoarders back then and someone is sure to randomly have that shit saved somewhere. Even madokami is a decent enough backup for most older stuff.

It's only isekai slop from the past 3 or 4 years that's doomed, because newer scanlators don't backup their stuff and didn't upload anywhere else, and fans of that shit don't hoard.

Saying the site was "handed over to" NamiComi isn't really true. The reality is that NamiComi and MangaDex are (and have always been) the same people.

Here's an SEC filing for NamiComi: disclosurequest.com/form/namicomi-inc./0001944279-22-000001
Notice how in the filing, the CEO is listed as a person named Henry Lin. Henry Lin is better known as Hologfx, founder of MangaDex (among other things).

If anyone has IRC logs of #doki from 2012, someone that year referred to him by his real name, and mentions that it's not exactly a secret. Also, in 2015, he connected to IRC with his real name as his nick, before doing /NICK back to Holo and authenticating to NickServ.

I know I saw something missing there, and I wasn't looking much.

Name it.

You also need an account to see some manga, and they block some email options.

Not if you're accessing it through an extension, no.

Then there's sadly nothing that can be done for you, go to individual discord for that.

not him but right now only 49% revenue is domestic

It's all so tiresome. They should just do what the original batoto did and generate a file with everything you follow then shut the site down a month later. Then whatever the new site is can take those files like md did when it first spun up and allowed you to bring your follows with you.

For anime that's believable but for manga it sounds like complete nonsense.

good enough

At this point, I'll take anything as long as it has my favorites on it.

Let's hope that most of the scanners will post their stuff there,

you forget the existence of china and southeast asian in general. It has a fuckton of people

Wen are scanlators going back to Madokami? Its current incarnation is just a scraper of official stuff.

I miss my bro OneManga every day

China and SEA don't pay for manga. France is the second biggest market for manga.

we need a manga site like novelupdates, since they don't directly host any of the content, just hyperlinks to the chapters, so they can't get DMCA'd. there's no possibility of bulk takedowns beyond a single translator.

mangaupdates is close but all they do is log updates, you can't just click chapter 63 in your reading list and be taken directly to chapter 63 on the scanlators website or where ever they're hosting it just like that.

mangaupdates already exist, it just needs some small changes

There's tons of scanslator teams who don't have a website (even a free one) and just have a mangadex linked group that might have a public discord.

my content was removed, can I access it?

No

faggots, they don't care about scanlators.
seriously though, what is the solution? How do sites like Z-Library or Anna's Archive do it? IPFS?

Kek, they were raped for linking the chapters like a decade or so ago.

Z-library got killed anon
All the tech companies used those online libs to train their AI and then murdered them after their job was done. Copyright is for the poor only.

Why can't we create a torrent site that's not retarded like nyaa and upload there instead?

Z-library got killed anon

mate there are still stacks of mirrors, zlib is still kicking z-library.sk/

Brb making the logo

I'm most worried about scanners who will chicken out and drop series instead of finding a new site. Giant Ojou Sama's scanner is saying he's not gonna continue unless he gets the goahead that it's safe too which is not forthcoming, and a lot of zoomer sub groups are probably thinking the same.

i'm not torrenting images just to get daily manga fills

as if I needed more reason to hate ai faggots

you don't need to torrent shit aggregators will do that for you
the point is to have a centralized database that's impossible to kill

I can't open it can someone post a screenshot

user created content

lmao

tries hard to be the next crunchyroll

becomes another westslop webtoon site like tapas

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

spoonfeeding

Imbecile.

xdcc

kek China won

Trash fetish shit scared of dmca? Weak faggot.

The images on Comick are super compressed. The one manga I checked even converted the png files from the original scans on mangadex to jpg files.

Zoomers don't know how to torrent, and for better or worse they're a huge portion of the community now.

Amerimutts making up this shit when it's them who are crying over piracy.

The Asia Pacific manga market accounted for the largest market with a revenue share of more than 85% in 2024

grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/manga-market-report

You don't need everyone, you just need enough.

It was bound to happen. Mangadex was shilled like crazy it’s a wonder this didn’t happen sooner. And takedowns for super popular series were already a thing years before it’s why they never got any updates.

did they? they used to have download links for chapters which got dmca'd since reading online was shit in 2007.
then like a decade ago they got dmca'd again and removed links to scanlator websites, not even chapters. feel like they didn't actually need to comply with that one since it doesn't actually break any copyright laws.

Not a good idea for manga to rely on the crowd, it should be something like webarchive

Should've picked Russia.

They are in Russia or some adjacent place. They could have fight the DMCA but they don't have a spine and bent over

Time to go back to IRC

Mangadex was shilled like crazy

I don't think that's the problem, the problem was that they didn't take enough precautions to prevent DMCAs or being doxxed and getting in legal trouble. Like, damn Asura even blatantly shill their subscription on their home page and it's still alive and it will keep living if it get hits with more DMCAs.

Yeah, it was my goto other than group blogspot and whatever, since onemanga ded day. I was surprised they got the scanlator site back in some years ago.Unfortunately some series dont get chapter or the "group currently doing it" updates.

I think Love Bullet from earlier this year counts as being "saved" by nonJP to the point that the mangaka commented in English on social media to thank them for saving her manga by buying the Japanese copy (while reading English scans).

When you searched a manga on google, the first link was mangadex.
Reddit itself was full of scanlations chapters linking to them.

No piracy service can survive this level of attention, its a ticking time bomb

There were also direct links to mangaplus manga. Publishers could see where some readers were coming from.

Something needs to be popular enough to be a source for aggregators, but hard enough to access to discourage most people.

my content was removed, can I access it?

Right now, no. As we adapt the platform to better handle these requests, we will look into it.

It's not completely hopeless yet but considering how easily they bent the knee, it still doesn't look good. And even if they do provide access, it'll probably be giving it to scanlator groups when they request it instead of something that can allow someone to download the entire mangadex library.

Zoomers are too stupid to figure out torrents, so this'll be a huge hit for manga uploads for ongoing manga.
Not my problem though, I rarely care about ongoings.

How the fuck do I export everything I'm following from mangadex to an .xml again? I remember doing it to get on mangadex in the first place but it was so long ago I completely forgot.

i think the reason they got by for so long what that they were willing to work with rights holders and host redirects on their site, which as the main piracy site was great for official publishers wanting to redirect traffic away from mangadex and to them. everything changed when kakao decided to go full scorched earth on the pirates and work with the japs publishers to do it.

My dude, all the alternatives people are migrating to, like comick and weebcentral, get hit by DMCA's 24/7 and they just throw them into the trash bin.
These people are not retarded. They know of all these sites and more already. Do you think that they're not able to use Google too?
The one and only problem here is that Mangadex are cucks who thought that by "pirating morally" and bending the knee to these publishers and sucking their cocks 24/7 they would be be able to become Crunchy for Manga. Also, because they're retards who didn't host their site on some third world shithole who doesn't give a shit about these things.
This is all 1000% on Mangadex and no one else.

check it

it's actually dead

post is 666

wtf happened?

FUCKING DIAZ

You're not entitled to shit.

Torrenting is not a good solution for ancient manga nobody gives a shit about anymore.
Even the most popular manga currently running struggle to maintain a usable number of seeders on nyaa.

Why is Kakao of all companies so anti-piracy anyway? Is that also the reason for their declining profits? I read something about the Webtoon industry crashing and their profits going down the toilet or something.

A bit of a dummy, but how are Weebcentral and Comick able to just ignore DMCAs anyway? Wouldn't they be targeted and get into legal trouble?

MD is just a failed attempt to be the next CR/Fakku which is why they're so vulnerable to copyright takedowns. It's better off dead.

There's a mangadex script for transfering what you read to MAL. Do you want it?

What if they just don't take down the manga? What are they gonna do, send ninja to Moldova or wherever the fuck the servers are?

Never mind the goddess is fine, I was using the old link

There will never be a replacement.

no ads

great interface, good for getting updates without manually checking

can easily update files in case of mistakes

active community

People enjoy translating something they want to read, and the greatest reward is seeing others appreciate their work, although I am sure people here could get offended by that notion.

Hosting at a country that doesn't care for japanese copyright claims. If I recall E-hentai was planning to shut down because the original server hosting was becoming unsafe and in the end someone helped him move things to Moldova.

I fucking hate discord, I'm not joining 200+ discords for every manga I want to read.

who sent the takedown request

the right-holders

you fucking pussy, say their names.

No Ads

The support mangadex thing was as intrusive as any ad.

It's all American, that's the problem. They deliberately tried to be "ethical" by not having any resistance measures, thinking fawning to oligarchs would protect them.

Also, because they're retards who didn't host their site on some third world shithole who doesn't give a shit about these things.

have you seen the newest raw

look, Anon Babble here's the thing
I'm not going to buy it
Another site will come along, just like how Mangadex took Batoto's territory, something will take this one's territory

I'm just not gonna buy it
problem?

retard

People could use bato:
bato.to/

but it's shit!

Yeah, but what are you gonna do?
There's a chance it might become the next mangadex. Maybe some other place.

make a platform that's easy for normies to consume mass amounts of illegal media

put e-begging scanlation teams on a pedestal and let them pull all of their translations at a drop of a hat if someone dares translate something they are

normies flood in and tell everyone about the website

translation teams ebeg for money at the end of literally every chapter saying how close they are to shutting down due to no money
I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. Normies will flood into shitty rip sites like they used to once mangadex is gone.

user created content

still takes down webcomic OPM

can I not be a user and a mangaka at the same time if I'm using mangadex?

I'm surprised they haven't gone after it already. People are uploading official translations there and not making a secret of it

XD

Fuck off.

chance it might become the next mangadex

bato was already nuked once. Not a very good track record.

This page uses images in .webp format

Oh I thought it was the artist Kakao

Gave me a fright

I was translating some niche slop but I'll probably just stop. At least someone is translating the WN.

Wow, it's just like Anon Babble then.

It doesn't really need "a number" of seeders, though. You can fit the entirety of Mangadex in a single seedbox, just get like two of those and all your torrents are available forever.

great interface, good for getting updates without manually checking

active community

Neither of these things are true

I bought and scanned (screenshots) a volume for a group asking for it, it was 5$, I thought to myself that if they couldn't even get that maybe they shouldn't spend their time in scanlation but whatever, I almost regret it though, they had not even finished the previous volume, still no releases in 2 months, the official release might be faster at this point.
My main motivation was hoping for them to speed up the release of another series they were doing that has been done for years and they have been releasing chapters 1 every 3 or even 4 months, 2 damn chapters away from the ending, still no end in sight.

Didn't the old batoto get remorseful about piracy and give up? Always thought this one was an aggregator

user created content

So shitty westoid webcomics, gookshit and SEAmonkey twitter trash? 99% of it cheap smut

They got ddosd and gookshit flood.Too much to handle for the owner back then.

Unless some autist comes out tomorrow and says he'd been religiously backing-up EVERYTHING on Mangadex 24/7

Well actually.........sure is not everything, but a new one is coming if you check the page.
Honestly was surprised to see some old but popular stuff still online, I guess I need to hurry up and read it or just download it.

possibly, as much as the gooks will hate to admit it, piracy is the main force driving discoverability of foreign IPs,

Why is Kakao of all companies so anti-piracy anyway? Is that also the reason for their declining profits?

I think it's the other way around. Their profits are crashing into the toilet and they think annihilating piracy will bring them more revenue.

Completely different site, it just stole the name. MD is batoto's successor, new batoto is just an toxic aggregator. And as other anon's said, it's surprising it's still up given the allow people to upload scans of official English releases.

it's surprising it's still up given the allow people to upload scans of official English releases

Plenty of aggregator sites do that. Batoto isn't special.

Is this what they call... sovl?

How big do you think MangaDex actually is, content-wise? My rip is well over 40 TB.
That would have to be one really big seedbox.

If you need to join 200+ discords to read manga you're doing something wrong or you're an impatient little shit that can't wait a few days

This put such a sour taste in my mouth, I may not have bought all the Manga I read, but what I bought was thanks to finding bookwalker through Mangadex.

Depends on whether or not he's including all the western/Korean/Chinese shit that no one except retards cares about.

People just need to make a site that doesn't host korean slop, period

This is probably the solution.
I have no idea who thought hosting this shit was a good idea to begin with, all it was was another vector for a potential takedown, and Korean companies are even worse than Jap ones when it comes to that shit.

It would have been better if they took down the site completely. Now people will not know whether to continue uploading or not. I hope they all migrate to some other site

for the last fucking time how hard is it to have a backup on an onion node?

Korean stuff is actually responsible for almost half the traffic though, you underestimate how much gaijin like their Korean toons

Just want to to post this, but the moment dex makes it into the news with "largest pirate manga site got dmca'd!" my shithole country immediately blocks it with DPI. I don't want to boot up vpn every times so this truly is goodbye

Cool, they should stick to their own site. Traffic is bad.

I can almost guarantee that most of that traffic is bots, and of the legit traffic most of it is exclusively for Solo Leveling.
But again, it's irrelevant, they're just another vector for a takedown, who gives a fuck about traffic if it leads to your entire site being nuked by corporations?

Oh, ok. That's a lot, I would have guessed under 20TB actually, after excluding non-english releases and korean/webtoon/OEL shit.

they were playing balls with publishers since inception, there was never going to be a onion

China and SEA don't pay for manga

again
you're trying to hallucinate something
it's not the 90s anymore, billy

this joke was funny bro
it isn't anymore, get new material

Shit fast now? I'm getting like 15kbps, worse than dialup speed most of the time 2 years ago.

it's actually dead

Don't scare me like that.

it just stole the name

you mean bought

Because they include Japan in that, which completely dwarves all the other countries.

I hope someone grabs all the releases from those scanlators declaring they'll only release on discord and uploads them to our goddess.
I do not want to go back to having to check two dozen different sources to keep up with my reading.

That makes running an ads-free site without gookshot 50% cheaper, isn't it?

begging for donations is as old as scanlation itself. We just need a win'o'thread approach like Anon Babble

I hope someone uploads to goddess.

lmao good one

depends on which bridges you use, the German bridges I'm usually put on get 30 MBPS which is enough for reading manga.

can anyone provide an actual example of a manga that was available on dex until 2 days ago and is now LOST FOREVER? because i keep seeing whineposts about it, but no example

Ain't my goddess.

Translation is always what takes the longest, assuming you have an actual translator. Otherwise, these days you're better off doing it yourself with DeepL or something, since most of the scan groups have retards for QC and if you're not a completely retarded ESL whatever you do will be better. The best part is you can then have a credits pages where you call your readers faggots

yet another great reason to remove it. I dunno how MD paid for their servers (surely not entirely via donations) but let the kslop mongoloids create their own site

What manga is it?

comick

speaking of, is there a good mass downloader for that site? HakuNeko doesn't seem to be able to pull the data

Which country?

RIP

Will anon step it up and make a new site and get past the logo stage?

You mean like the one that already exists?

I used Polite Mangadex Downloader a long time ago, and tried it again now. It seems to be working, ish. At least enough to get a lot of my follows at least listed, which is enough for me.

Nam

Well, I with them pleasant suffering

It's literally over. I did want to go through a manga cleanse though so this might be good. I didn't read even 25% of this number, though I did religiously download shit so I could read later.
If there is some site that wants the zip files to try to recreate what has been lost, might be open to push what I can.

Are you becoming Crunchyroll?

No.

Why is NamiComi managing MangaDex now?

NamiComi has the necessary legal framework to move forward and ensure the long-term sustainability of MangaDex.

Why would they give a fuck about legal shit if they weren't becoming Crunchyroll?

Which tracker site? you are just moving the problem one level up.

How hard is it to become a one person scanlator these days? There's a few series I want that no one is biting on and I want to insult my readers

Where do you get a better manga updates interface?
when was the last time you tried browsing without adblock?

pic related

If files for that series have been removed, better not upload them. If not, carry on, at least until a new hub pop up.

Rest in peace, lil orange cat.

Do you have MS Paint and Google Lens?

Becoming a site for westoid webcomics isn't like being crunchyroll to be fair. Like a comic version of scribblehub?

just enable dns in your preferred browser

Easier than ever.

I remember reading stuff on Spectrum nexus. Like Eden and Homunculus.

Chinese customers don't but Chinese licensers do.
Bilibili must be paying a lot for all the anime and manga it provides for free. It's still a drop in the bucket compared to its revenue from other avenues so it can afford to invest in its brand like that.

the one I bought is The Tiger Won't Eat the Dragon Yet, the one I am hoping to read the end of is Subaru to Suu-san, which is pretty damn good, in terms of both plot and art.

proper cleaning still takes a bit of practice, but considering machine translation is pretty competent compared to only a few years ago, pretty much anyone can do it.

True but ubo fixed that in one click.

pic related

horrific, to think that boomers and zoomers alike put up with this. imo only Gen X and Y use adblockers for some reason

7000? Fuck that's a lot
I was hoping it'd just be webtoons and the most normalfagcore shit that got killed but with a number like that I guess a large amount of what I was reading might be gone too. Ouch
This isnt good news

invest in its brand

You mean invest in censorship right? Nothing's free

Probably a good amount that if they do exist on other sites don't have the same image quality.

Well for the least amount of work on top of my head

IO Paint for cleaning

Photopea for typesetting and maybe cleaning hard to reach spots.......maybe even Inkscape but only for typesetting.

mangadex.org/title/08e1f85a-bb12-4fe4-aec5-0d7a80b3a261/anonblack-s-typesetting-guide (at least for Font choices)

either ChatGPT or Copilot for translation, I have not done it myself, I suppose if I did I would take as a sort of dialogue, because you want to give it some context so that it might give a better translation.

Nick and Lever too kinda

It doesn't work properly in Italy as well, but it does if you change DNS, you can do it on the phone too with "Brave".